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October 20, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These charts give an insight into the actual impact – and progression – of Covid19 in South and Central America. As for the previously posted charts showing Russia, and showing the Middle East, these countries are included because they report their overall mortality monthly rather than weekly. Brazil Brazil received more ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Impact: Excess deaths in Latin America" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/20/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-impact-excess-deaths-in-latin-america/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Impact: Excess deaths in Latin America">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt McDonald, Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland Shutterstock The climate talks in Glasgow are just days away, and may be the last chance to coordinate global efforts to stop the planet warming beyond 1.5℃ this century. More than 100 world leaders will attend ... <a title="Who’s who in Glasgow: 5 countries that could make or break the planet’s future under climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/19/whos-who-in-glasgow-5-countries-that-could-make-or-break-the-planets-future-under-climate-change-170090/" aria-label="Read more about Who’s who in Glasgow: 5 countries that could make or break the planet’s future under climate change">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The above chart poses one clear question. Why is the experience of the three relatively prosperous East European EU countries (Poland, Czechia, Hungary) different to that of the three West European EU countries (Spain, France, Sweden). The ‘research hypothesis’ posed here is that, while all these countries were naïve to the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Immunity Hypothesis: The European Union before the Variants and the Vaccines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/15/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-immunity-hypothesis-the-european-union-before-the-variants-and-the-vaccines/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Immunity Hypothesis: The European Union before the Variants and the Vaccines">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Now is as good a time as any to evaluate and reflect on the public health policy choices made in the period from February to April 2020, re the Covid19 pandemic. Here I have postulated a ‘league’ of 12 economically advanced countries which have made different choices which loosely fit onto ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Premier League: Spectrum of Public Health Choices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/14/keith-rankin-analysis-covid19-premier-league-spectrum-of-public-health-choices/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Premier League: Spectrum of Public Health Choices">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2021
A View from Afar: Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will analyse how Taiwan is delicately navigating its way between two clashing global powers. On one side there's China and on the other is the USA. Taiwan has been self-governing for over 70 years. It insists it wants to remain an independently governed economy. Can it navigate a pathway to relative peace through diplomatic means? Yes, and here's how.
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October 12, 2021
LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTING: By Justin Latif, Local Democracy reporter If New Zealand’s border restrictions are loosened for arrivals from countries with high covid-19 numbers, South Auckland will see between 1000 and 1400 cases a week — even if vaccination rates get to 90 percent, according to modelling carried out by the Counties Manukau District Health ... <a title="South Auckland covid ‘could get totally out of control’ scenario warning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/12/south-auckland-covid-could-get-totally-out-of-control-scenario-warning/" aria-label="Read more about South Auckland covid ‘could get totally out of control’ scenario warning">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2021
RNZ News Some in New Zealand’s health industry fear that the ICU system will not cope if the delta outbreak escalates, but Health Minister Andrew Little says anyone with covid-19 will be cared for. Little told RNZ Morning Report there was pressure on hospitals and headway was being made to bring in more nurses to ... <a title="NZ able to ‘surge’ covid ICU capacity by risking planned care, says minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/12/nz-able-to-surge-covid-icu-capacity-by-risking-planned-care-says-minister/" aria-label="Read more about NZ able to ‘surge’ covid ICU capacity by risking planned care, says minister">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2021
Analysis Keith Rankin, 12 Oct 2021 Egypt is the world’s 14th largest country by population. It’s the one of the only two African countries on the ourworldindata database. It’s also a major travel destination. The excess deaths data reveals that Egypt has suffered far worse from the Covid19 pandemic than the official reported data indicates, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Impact: Four Middle-East Countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/12/keith-rankin-analysis-covid19-impact-four-middle-east-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Impact: Four Middle-East Countries">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matheson Russell, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland Shutterstock As New Zealand’s race to lift vaccination rates continues, and with pressure to lift social and economic restrictions too, the role of vaccine mandates is coming into sharper focus. Yesterday the government signalled stricter rules will ... <a title="To be truly ethical, vaccine mandates must be about more than just lifting jab rates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/12/to-be-truly-ethical-vaccine-mandates-must-be-about-more-than-just-lifting-jab-rates-169612/" aria-label="Read more about To be truly ethical, vaccine mandates must be about more than just lifting jab rates">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Russia is a former superpower with a long tradition of scientific achievement. It remains the world’s second largest nuclear power. Yet pre-covid life expectancy in Russia was just 72.6, and Russia has a higher median population than New Zealand, despite having comparatively few people aged over 80. The Russian people have ... <a title="Covid19 Impact: Four Countries of Interest Russia, Serbia, Ireland, Japan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/08/covid19-impact-four-countries-of-interest-russia-serbia-ireland-japan/" aria-label="Read more about Covid19 Impact: Four Countries of Interest Russia, Serbia, Ireland, Japan">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2021
In this episode of A View from Afar political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss how security threats present themselves in a multitude of forms. This week we look at a threat that mixes belief with nationalism. This threat is most obvious in its homeland where the movement was conceived. But its devotees have migrated to countries all over the world. When confronted by others within their communities, they respond with threats that by degrees… become more sinister.
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October 6, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The first thing to note – some good news – is that the sixth wave of Covid19 is on the wane. For the first wave, see https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/. In particular, look at ‘Active Cases’ in China. For the following five waves of Covid19, see https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/. In particular, look at World ‘Daily Deaths’. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Global Clusters at the end of September 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/06/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-global-clusters-at-the-end-of-september-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Global Clusters at the end of September 2021">Read more</a>
