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NEW: you asked, we answered.

We’ve just launched an interactive version of our Covid trajectory tracker charts, where you can now highlight any country you like, and choose between log & linear scales and even ... per capita numbers 😱

ig.ft.com/coronavirus-ch…
A neat feature we’ve added is stateful URLs:

Pick your own countries, scales & units, share that URL, and anyone clicking the link will get your exact chart & settings, letting you use these charts in conversations

e.g here’s Sweden vs Norway, per capita ig.ft.com/coronavirus-ch…
This is just one of two interactive pages we’ve launched today.

The second, masterminded by @davidcblood, tracks countries tightening & relaxing lockdowns.

This is a huge part of the story now, and you can watch as Europe begins easing restrictions

ig.ft.com/coronavirus-lo…
These pages are huge team efforts.

@davidcblood and I are cogs in a slick machine involving @sdbernard @maxharlow @carolinenevitt @aendrew @theboysmithy @martinstabe @alekswis @joannaskao, and we’re using data from @ECDC_EU & Oxford’s @BlavatnikSchool.
And remember, we’re still tracking the gold-standard metric for Covid death tolls: overall excess mortality.

Free to read at ft.com/coronavirus-la…

We’ll be adding more countries and cities today and beyond, so keep this page bookmarked.
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Critical assessment of scientific papers by the media has never been more important than during the pandemic

That new Manchester study saying 25% of UK has HD Covid *was* peer reviewed, but has already been comprehensively debunked by many leading epidemiologists.
A site I'm finding increasingly useful is the Science Media Centre (@SMC_London), where domain experts present feedback to papers circulating in the media.

Here are @AdamJKucharski and others pointing out the flaws in that Manchester paper sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reactio…
And here's a detailed, point-by-point take-down of the same paper by @CT_Bergstrom, including an explanation that even peer review isn't enough to ensure a study's findings are watertight:
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NEW: great story from @alekswis & @BillyEhrenberg shows Britons sharply reduced activity during early phase of lockdown (and indeed pre-empted govt reccs), but in recent weeks activity levels have been rising

Data: @huqindustries / @CASAUCL

Story: ft.com/content/cc70d6…
London saw sharpest early drops in activity anywhere in the UK, down by almost 70% by mid April. Part of this is due to tourists disappearing, but also lots of home working

Plenty of other areas saw sharp reductions, though in some parts of the country the shift was more muted.
This is best seen by grouping neighbourhoods by type:

• Retail and business park locations saw biggest falls in activity, and are still quiet

• Suburbs (lots of construction workers) and rural (agriculture) saw smallest declines, and are also seeing earliest resurgences
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NEW: we’ve updated our excess mortality tracker, the gold-standard measure for Covid deaths, allowing like-for-like comparisons btwn countries

UK had 50,000 more deaths than usual in March & April vs 27,000 reported Covid deaths at the time

Free to read: ft.com/content/a26fbf…
We’ve also added new data for the worst-hit cities and regions:

• We’re showing data for urban epicentres of Brazil, Turkey and Russia; all battling fierce outbreaks and under-reporting Covid deaths
• Excess death toll in Guayas province, Ecuador’s epicentre, continues to rise
We now have excess mortality data for all UK countries & regions.

Deaths in March & April were:
• 66% higher than usual in England
• +55% in Scotland
• +42% in Wales
• +34% in Northern Ireland

New story today from @ChrisGiles_ on UK excess deaths: ft.com/content/40fc89…
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