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March 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David King, Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland New cases of the coronavirus are reported every day, and as yet there’s no vaccine. So what treatments are available if you’re one of the unlucky ones who gets infected? If your symptoms are mild, you should treat them ... <a title="How can I treat myself if I’ve got – or think I’ve got – coronavirus?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/how-can-i-treat-myself-if-ive-got-or-think-ive-got-coronavirus-134654/" aria-label="Read more about How can I treat myself if I’ve got – or think I’ve got – coronavirus?">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2020
IN-DEPTH: By Kate Newton of RNZ News A week ago, Shaun Hendy packed up a desktop computer and monitor at his University of Auckland office and carted the whole lot home to his Grey Lynn bungalow in Auckland. When you’re leading the team that’s modelling the worst-case scenarios for how Covid-19 coronavirus might spread in ... <a title="NZ lockdown – Day 2: Modelling coronavirus from the kitchen table" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/nz-lockdown-day-2-modelling-coronavirus-from-the-kitchen-table/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – Day 2: Modelling coronavirus from the kitchen table">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin In today’s first chart, which excludes countries with a single death, only Iran features as a country outside of Western Europe. In Europe, worst hit is the ‘Latin’ group in the southwest. I include Switzerland here, which has large Italian‑speaking and French‑speaking components. Next are the Benelux countries – Netherlands, Belgium ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Countries with Highest Death Rates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-countries-with-highest-death-rates/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Countries with Highest Death Rates">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2020
Statement by Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, to Parliament. Mr Speaker, I wish to make a Ministerial Statement under Standing Order 347 in relation to the recent declaration of a State of National Emergency. Having considered the advice of the Director Civil Defence Emergency Management, the Minister of Civil Defence declared a State of ... <a title="New Zealand: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s statement on New Zealand Lockdown and State of National Emergency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/25/new-zealand-prime-minister-jacinda-arderns-statement-on-new-zealand-lockdown-and-state-of-national-emergency/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s statement on New Zealand Lockdown and State of National Emergency">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin In today’s first chart, of daily new cases in Italy and Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark), we see that, at its peak in days 20 and 21 (March 10 and 11), the incidence of known new cases in Scandinavia matched that in Italy. The difference is that new cases stabilised immediately afterwards ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – COVID-19: Exponential Growth in Italy and Scandinavia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/25/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-exponential-growth-in-italy-and-scandinavia/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – COVID-19: Exponential Growth in Italy and Scandinavia">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Conor Wynn, PhD Candidate at BehaviourWorks, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Monash University To some people, fighting in the aisles over toilet paper makes sense. Driven by the social proof of empty shelves and in fear of losing out, they fight. To others, such behaviour would ... <a title="Coronavirus and you: how your personality affects how you cope and what you can do about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/25/coronavirus-and-you-how-your-personality-affects-how-you-cope-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-134037/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus and you: how your personality affects how you cope and what you can do about it">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin The USA has been on a consisted exponential growth path since day 11 (March 1). Italian Covid‑19 incidence levels – currently just over 8,000 known cases per 10 million people on 23 March – will be reached in the United States by day 39 (Sunday, March 29) if there is no ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Exponential Growth in United States and United Kingdom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/24/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-exponential-growth-in-united-states-and-united-kingdom/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Exponential Growth in United States and United Kingdom">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago Overjoyed. That’s not a word epidemiologists normally use, but that’s how I felt after hearing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s announcement about New Zealand’s COVID-19 shutdown of everything except essential services for at least four weeks from midnight on ... <a title="‘Overjoyed’: a leading health expert on New Zealand’s coronavirus shutdown, and the challenging weeks ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/24/overjoyed-a-leading-health-expert-on-new-zealands-coronavirus-shutdown-and-the-challenging-weeks-ahead-134395/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Overjoyed’: a leading health expert on New Zealand’s coronavirus shutdown, and the challenging weeks ahead">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2020
New Zealanders are preparing to go into an unprecedented lockdown period at midnight on Wednesday to stem the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced this afternoon that the Covid-19 alert level would rise to level four on Wednesday night. It was confirmed the country now has 102 cases – with ... <a title="NZ prepares for unprecedented virus lockdown – 36 new Covid-19 cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/23/nz-prepares-for-unprecedented-virus-lockdown-36-new-covid-19-cases/" aria-label="Read more about NZ prepares for unprecedented virus lockdown – 36 new Covid-19 cases">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The two charts here are presented using a ‘logarithmic’ scale. This is the appropriate way of representing any data time series that would normally exhibit exponential growth. ‘Exponential growth’ means that normal growth is measured in percentage terms rather than actual numbers. Common measures that grow exponentially are consumer prices (this ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Slowing Exponential Growth in Italy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/23/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-slowing-exponential-growth-in-italy/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Slowing Exponential Growth in Italy">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Francis L. Collins, Professor of Geography, Director of the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, University of Waikato More than one-in-16 people in New Zealand today – or more than 300,000 in total – is a migrant without residence status, living here on a temporary work, ... <a title="Caring for 300,000 temporary migrants in New Zealand is a crucial missing link in our coronavirus response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/23/caring-for-300-000-temporary-migrants-in-new-zealand-is-a-crucial-missing-link-in-our-coronavirus-response-134152/" aria-label="Read more about Caring for 300,000 temporary migrants in New Zealand is a crucial missing link in our coronavirus response">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. While the number of cases of Covid-19 remains very small relative to the world’s population, a number of prominent people have been caught up in it. It seems to be very much an international travellers’ disease, with people who travel the most being at highest risk. The highest incidences of Covid‑19 ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: A Jetsetter Disease?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-a-jetsetter-disease/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: A Jetsetter Disease?">Read more</a>
