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With some time passing since my last update, and the rates of vaccinations ramping up globally, it is easy to forget the simple, but devastating fact: we are still in a global pandemic. Here are the latest weekly totals for new cases and new deaths, worldwide:Just as the charts show,New cases have fallen significantly from the pandemic peak (Wave 4), but remain above the prior trough between Waves 3 and 4. New deaths recorded are still at extremely high levels, and showing an uptick week-on-week in the latest data.Meanwhile, mortality of new Covid19 cases is stubbornly at the levels observed over the last two waves of the pandemic:Put differently, the 'rich' world is getting vaccinated (albeit with some variation in the rates), while the emerging markets and middle-income economies remain
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With some time passing since my last update, and the rates of vaccinations ramping up globally, it is easy to forget the simple, but devastating fact: we are still in a global pandemic. Here are the latest weekly totals for new cases and new deaths, worldwide:Just as the charts show,New cases have fallen significantly from the pandemic peak (Wave 4), but remain above the prior trough between Waves 3 and 4. New deaths recorded are still at extremely high levels, and showing an uptick week-on-week in the latest data.Meanwhile, mortality of new Covid19 cases is stubbornly at the levels observed over the last two waves of the pandemic:Put differently, the 'rich' world is getting vaccinated (albeit with some variation in the rates), while the emerging markets and middle-income economies remain
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[email protected] (TrueEconomics) considers the following as important: #COVID19, #covid_19, #worldwide #data, Africa, America, Asia, BRIC, Contagion, Coronavirus, EU27, Europe, Oceania, Pandemic, USA
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With some time passing since my last update, and the rates of vaccinations ramping up globally, it is easy to forget the simple, but devastating fact: we are still in a global pandemic. Here are the latest weekly totals for new cases and new deaths, worldwide:
Just as the charts show,
- New cases have fallen significantly from the pandemic peak (Wave 4), but remain above the prior trough between Waves 3 and 4.
- New deaths recorded are still at extremely high levels, and showing an uptick week-on-week in the latest data.
Meanwhile, mortality of new Covid19 cases is stubbornly at the levels observed over the last two waves of the pandemic:
So much for the 'reopening' future...