posts: 32966

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                        "text": "Confirmed deaths",
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                        "text": "What is the ",
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                        "text": " number of ",
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                                "text": "confirmed deaths",
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                        "text": "?",
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                                "text": "Related charts:",
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                        "url": "https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&deathsMetric=true&totalFreq=true&perCapita=true&smoothing=0&country=USA+GBR+CAN+BRA+AUS+IND+DEU+FRA",
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                        "description": "How do deaths compare when we adjust for population?",
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                        "url": "https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-covid-deaths-region",
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                        "title": "Total confirmed deaths by region",
                        "description": "Which world regions have the most total confirmed deaths?",
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                        "title": "Total vs. daily confirmed deaths [scatterplot]",
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                                "text": "Three points on confirmed death figures to keep in mind:",
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                                "text": "All three points are true for all currently available international data sources on COVID-19 deaths.",
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                                        "text": "the actual total death toll from COVID-19 is likely to be higher than the number of confirmed deaths \u2013 this is due to limited testing and problems in the attribution of the cause of death; the difference between reported confirmed deaths and total deaths varies by country",
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                                        "text": "how COVID-19 deaths are recorded may differ between countries (e.g. some countries may only count hospital deaths, whilst others have started to include deaths in homes)",
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                                        "text": "the reported death figures on a given date does not necessarily show the number of new deaths on that day: this is due to delays in reporting.",
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                                "text": "\u2192 We provide more detail on these three points in the section '",
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                                "url": "https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus#deaths-from-covid-19-background",
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                                        "text": "Deaths from COVID-19: background",
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                                "text": "'.",
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                                "text": "Two tips on how you can interact with this chart",
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                                                "text": "Add any other country to this chart:",
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                                        "text": " click on the Add country button to compare with any other country.",
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                                                "text": "View this data on a world map: ",
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                                        "text": "switch to a global map of confirmed deaths using the 'MAP' tab at the bottom of the chart.",
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                                "text": "Total confirmed deaths",
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                        "text": ": how rapidly have they increased compared to other countries?",
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                                "text": "Charts which simply show the change in confirmed deaths over time are not very useful to answer the question of how the ",
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                                        "text": "speed",
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                                "text": " of the outbreak compares between different countries. This is because the outbreak of COVID-19 did not begin at the same time in all countries.",
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                                "text": "This chart here is designed to allow such comparisons.",
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                                "text": "The trajectory for each country begins on the day when that country had\u00a05 confirmed deaths.",
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                                "text": "This allows you to compare how rapidly the number of confirmed deaths increased after the outbreak reached a similar stage in each country.",
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                                "text": "The grey lines in the background help you to see how rapidly the number of confirmed deaths is increasing",
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                                "text": "These lines show the trajectories for doubling times of 1, 2, 3, 5, and 10 days. If the slope that a country is on is steeper than a particular grey line, then the doubling time of confirmed cases in that country is faster than that. For example, there are several countries for which the slope was steeper than the \u2018\u2026every 2 days\u2019 line \u2013 this means their death count doubled faster than every two days",
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                                "text": "How you can interact with this chart",
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                                        "text": "Clicking on any country in the chart highlights that country. If you click on several countries you can create a view in which you can compare several countries.",
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                                        "text": "Any country you might not see immediately you can find via the ",
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                                                "text": "'Select Countries\u2019",
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                                        "text": " in the bottom left. Just type the name in the search box there.",
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                        "text": "What is the ",
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                        "text": " number of ",
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                                "text": "Related charts: ",
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                                "text": "The previous charts looked at the increase of ",
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                                "text": " confirmed deaths \u2013 this chart shows\u00a0the number of confirmed deaths\u00a0",
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                                "text": "For all global data sources on the pandemic, daily data does not necessarily refer to deaths ",
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                                "text": "Since reporting can vary very significantly from day to day \u2013 irrespectively of any actual variation of deaths \u2013 it is helpful to view the seven-day rolling average of the daily figures. Below the chart you find the link to the rolling seven-day average view.",
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                                "text": "\u2192 We provide more detail in the section '",
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                                        "text": "Reported new cases on a particular day do not necessarily represent new cases on that day",
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                                "text": "Another tip on how you can interact with this chart",
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                                "text": "By pulling the ends of the blue time slider you can focus the chart on a particular period. If you bring them together to one point in time then the line chart becomes a ",
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                                "text": " \u2013 this of course only makes sense if you compare countries (that is what the Add Country button is for).",
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                        "text": ": are we bending the curve?",
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                                "text": "This trajectory chart shows whether countries make progress on bringing down the curve of new deaths.",
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                                "text": "To allow comparisons between countries the trajectory for each country begins on the day when that country first reported 5 daily deaths.",
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                                "text": "By default this chart is shown on a logarithmic vertical axis. We explain why in the next section. If you are not familiar with logarithmic axes we recommend you also look at this chart on a linear axis. The visual representation on these different axes can look very different.",
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                                        "text": " is an explanation for how to read logarithmic axes.]",
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                                        "text": "But in this chart \u2013 as in many of our charts \u2013 you can switch to a linear axis \u2013 just click on \u2018LOG\u2019.",
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                        "text": " did countries bend the curve?",
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                                "text": "Related chart:",
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                                "text": "This chart shows the number of daily confirmed deaths (on the y-axis) plotted against the total number of confirmed deaths (on the x-axis).",
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