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September 15, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Demographic information is starting to filter through again, after a slowdown in the Northern Hemisphere. And New Zealand now has reliable mortality data up to the end of July 2022. Australia continues to lag. In the last week of July, New Zealand reached a record number of deaths in a single ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Seasonal and Epidemic Deaths: New Zealand in context" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/15/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-seasonal-and-epidemic-deaths-new-zealand-in-context/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Seasonal and Epidemic Deaths: New Zealand in context">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Covid Excess Deaths: East Asia in context – These charts show excess pandemic mortality so far for a wide range of countries, geographically themed. The charts are structured to emphasise deaths in 2022 and 2021, and to facilitate comparative analysis between regions. (General mortality data is lacking for Africa and South ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Comparative analysis of excess deaths between and within the world’s regions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/23/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-comparative-analysis-of-excess-deaths-between-and-within-the-worlds-regions/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Comparative analysis of excess deaths between and within the world’s regions">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The chart above shows New Zealand’s aggregate weekly deaths from 2015. The normal winter experience is obvious, with 2015 to 2019 influenza peaks mainly in July and August, though in late June in 2019. New Zealand is different from most European countries in that it has significantly faster population growth. (Although ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid Demography: New Zealand in context of North and West Europe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-demography-new-zealand-in-context-of-north-and-west-europe/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid Demography: New Zealand in context of North and West Europe">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This morning, RNZ played the following story: Health stats show 87 people have died in their homes from Covid-19 since March, which references New Zealand’s most media-visible expert, Dr Michael Baker. (And this on today’s Morning Report.) Before commenting on today’s story, it is pertinent to check out a story published ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Public Health Watch: Where Does Michael Baker get his Facts from?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/10/keith-rankin-essay-public-health-watch-where-does-michael-baker-get-his-facts-from/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Public Health Watch: Where Does Michael Baker get his Facts from?">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. A couple of weeks ago I received a number of articles mainly about Covid19 deaths in the United States. (See below.) As I have noted in the past, it is important to address the reported facts, rather than to ignore them. As they stand, these articles are being used to question ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Is there a Significant Covid19 Toll of Younger People?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/05/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-is-there-a-significant-covid19-toll-of-younger-people/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Is there a Significant Covid19 Toll of Younger People?">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These three charts show pandemic and post-pandemic excess deaths by age group. I highlight South Korea in light of this RNZ piece of ‘journalism’. For Omicron-related deaths, look for the period from February to May 2022. I include Italy and New Zealand for comparison; Italy and South Korea were – in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Is South Korea the Country to Follow?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/04/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-is-south-korea-the-country-to-follow/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Is South Korea the Country to Follow?">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. New Zealand has had the worst reported mortality rate for Covid19 in the world for the last two weeks, according to the international data. And by a significant margin. But you wouldn’t know it from the media. ‘Underwhelming’ is an overstatement. The best I could find was this from Reuters nearly ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Deaths: New Zealand is Worst in World" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/02/keith-rankin-analysis-covid19-deaths-new-zealand-is-worst-in-world/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Deaths: New Zealand is Worst in World">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Respiratory Virus Hospitalisations in Counties-Manukau, as reported by Stuff The chart above splits the patients in Middlemore Hospital into the different categories of Severe Acute Respiratory Illness. The vast majority are what in the past we have called ‘common colds’. There is no indication that any of these ‘colds’ are due ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – One Sari Sari Night" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/keith-rankin-analysis-one-sari-sari-night/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – One Sari Sari Night">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Essay by Keith Rankin. I try to write about general issues of importance, in a general – indeed global – context. This time I will write just about me. I am the same age as Phil Goff, Mayor of Auckland. And I want to be appropriately protected from Covid19. I have had three shots of ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Answers please? Tribulations of getting a Covid19 Vaccine ‘2nd Booster’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/keith-rankin-essay-answers-please-tribulations-of-getting-a-covid19-vaccine-2nd-booster/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Answers please? Tribulations of getting a Covid19 Vaccine ‘2nd Booster’">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. West Europe The first three charts (above) show three of the larger Western European countries: Germany, France, Spain. (Italy shows a similar picture.) The most important data item is ‘excess deaths’. (In the case of France and Spain, the last few weeks of this data have been ‘topped up’ using estimates ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid Waves in Europe, Lesson for New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/26/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-waves-in-europe-lesson-for-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid Waves in Europe, Lesson for New Zealand">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. All wars incur economic costs, and not only to the directly belligerent countries. The biggest costs arise when a war becomes a prolonged stalemate. The present war in Ukraine can be characterised, differently, as a Russian Civil War (that’s the Russian view), as ‘just another’ Eastern European conflict that will go ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – The Economic Cost of War, especially World War" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/22/keith-rankin-essay-the-economic-cost-of-war-especially-world-war/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – The Economic Cost of War, especially World War">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This morning, on Morning Report (RNZ) Monash University epidemiologist Tony Blakely noted that Covid19 death rates in New Zealand are 20% higher in New Zealand than in Victoria, Australia. He also noted that facemask use is significantly more widespread in New Zealand. When comparing New Zealand with the whole of Australia, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Latest Covid19 Death Demographics in New Zealand Show Disturbing Trend" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/18/keith-rankin-analysis-latest-covid19-death-demographics-in-new-zealand-show-disturbing-trend/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Latest Covid19 Death Demographics in New Zealand Show Disturbing Trend">Read more</a>
