I think it's fair to say humanity took a bit of a beating in 2020, but one month into 2021 there are signs of a fightback.
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) February 3, 2021
It took a year to reach 100 million confirmed cases worldwide. It's taken six weeks to give out 100 million doses of the vaccine.https://t.co/usvjnUBgsa pic.twitter.com/rL5BaKIan4
NEW: it’s a while since I’ve done a big international Covid thread, but this one feels important.
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) February 25, 2021
The first six weeks of 2021 have gone rather well in terms of humanity’s fight against Covid.
As well as the rollout of vaccines, global cases halved(!) between Jan 11 and Feb 18 pic.twitter.com/bnoxNkUZsu
The single most heartbreaking statistic in this whole covid era is the 17% increase in 15-19 year old deaths in the US in 2020
— Teddy Petrou (@TedPetrou) April 6, 2021
Around 70 years of life are lost with each extra death compared to just a few years at most for a typical covid death. Why are we sacrificing the young? pic.twitter.com/BDXakpdR3g
So don’t get me wrong, we’re on the way out of this. Several countries are very nearly there.
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) April 9, 2021
Here is a new chart that we should all be watching over the coming months, as countries seek to follow Israel’s lead and reach the Covid endgame: pic.twitter.com/8aop6XmBBI
USA car accident death rates spiked more than 30% right as lockdowns went into effect. This is extraordinarily clear evidence of how lockdowns directly cause deaths.
— Teddy Petrou (@TedPetrou) April 12, 2021
This is almost certainly due to increased substance abuse. pic.twitter.com/C7NdxE9eA0
Another example of the stupid trend in the US where totally non-political issues end up being highly politicized. Chart compares vaccine administration rate with the 2020 presidential election results. Source: https://t.co/jmoWhhrH3B pic.twitter.com/IEgTnI4rBU
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) April 14, 2021
The Economist built a model to assess the death toll of the pandemic, corrected for underreporting.https://t.co/fJRSRcxtZy
— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) May 14, 2021
They come to the conclusion that 10 million have died (with an uncertainty of 7 to 13 million).
The map shows the distribution of the death rate. pic.twitter.com/YEwhkuhaEW
Some places where Delta is high and vaccinations are low are experiencing new surges or their worst Covid wave yet@OurWorldInData pic.twitter.com/6QlgiAjjeK
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 3, 2021
NEW: as we get more and more studies on vaccine efficacy, it becomes harder to distill their results into one clean summary.
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) July 9, 2021
Here's my attempt at showing 22 results from 4 studies of 3 vaccines and 2 efficacy measures in 1 graphic, with @donatopmancini https://t.co/FsSBqFOTzo pic.twitter.com/o5822LmYao
Vaccination prevented ~75% of hospitalizations in England's Delta wave, as determined by modelinghttps://t.co/EWtgB2Vjgx @FT @mroliverbarnes @jburnmurdoch
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 24, 2021
"@PHE_UK estimates...vaccines being used in the UK are between 91 and 97 per cent effective in preventing hospitalisation." pic.twitter.com/ZUz0Xuaa6f
Pretty damn impressive
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 31, 2021
Thanks Darren Lu @Reddit pic.twitter.com/ST6ueaaoY1
Graphic from my column puts the risk of taking the AZ vaccine in perspective. I am disappointed that so much reporting on vaccines fails to put risks into context.
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) August 3, 2021
My column: https://t.co/XOBTf6zJPQ
A quick video summarizing the column: https://t.co/OtZBq4C3hT pic.twitter.com/OyEs4Nv9KF
