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COVID19 Summary #1 – Is the UK an outlier internationally?

July 12, 2021 By Nigel Marriott

The COVID19 pandemic is not yet over but with vaccinations starting to ramp up worldwide, an end may be in sight.  At that point, an in-depth comparison of countries is likely to take place.  To get ahead of that debate with the respect to the UK, I have been comparing the UK’s COVID19 statistics with a number of countries to see how much of an outlier the UK has been.

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Filed Under: Misc Tagged With: Comparing data, Coronavirus, Covid19, International, OWID, Pandemic, Presenting data, SARS-COV-2, UK

COVID19 Cases #2 – Is the UK an outlier internationally?

March 7, 2021 By Nigel Marriott

An unfortunate side effect of COVID19 has been ugly political debates over the best way to tackle the pandemic.  Often politicians will claim because country X does this, the UK should be doing it as well.  I decided it was time to do a proper comparison of the UK with other countries to see what extent the UK is an outlier and whether there are some countries we should be using as templates.

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Filed Under: Archive Tagged With: Comparing data, Coronavirus, Covid19, International, OWID, Pandemic, Presenting data, SARS-COV-2, UK

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