OWID COVID19

Content

Widely available data on confirmed cases only becomes meaningful when it can be interpreted in light of how much a country is testing. This is why Our World in Data built the global database on COVID-19 testing [1]. The additional smoothing and per capita rates make different countries (somewhat) comparable.

Our World in Data also had a good overview of global cause of death two years ago [2] I shared that data as well for additional comparisons.

Acknowledgements

[1] Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Joe Hasell (2020) - "Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)". Published online at OurWorldInData.org. https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

[2] Hannah Ritchie (2018) - "Causes of Death". Published online at OurWorldInData.org. https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death

Inspiration

• First and second wave differences in Europe
• Global Forecasting for total 2020 numbers
• Covid death toll compared to main cause of death