Thread by @risj_oxford

Here's a thread with great #datajournalism on #COVID19. Please share and feel free to add suggestions at the end

1. 🇪🇸 As Spanish national government wasn't giving data on the # of tests, nonprofit @civio started to build its own dataset (in Spanish)
datos.civio.es/dataset/pcr-co…

2. 🦠 Africa could become the next epicenter of the new coronavirus pandemic, @WHO has said. Across the continent, there is less than one intensive care bed per 100,000 people, a @Reuters survey found.

By @McNeill_Tweets @khoureld and others

graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAV…

3. ⚰️ For weeks @TheEconomist's @J_CD_T y @martgnz have been tracking excess deaths across countries and presenting them in this excellent page that everyone can read economist.com/graphic-detail…

4. 📊 Now they have published the code and data behind their excess mortality tracker on @github so academics and journalists can use it for their research

https://twitter.com/J_CD_T/status/1261625814854045696?s=20

5. 👨‍🔬 A study said #COVID19 wasn’t that deadly. Here's how the right seized it and weaponised it.

A revelatory piece by @aleszubajak and Jeff Howe with the help of @stuartathompson from @nytgraphics
nytimes.com/2020/05/14/opi…

6. 🇲🇽 Journalists and developers at @tukanmx examined public records to visualize the real resources of the national health systems. Here's the result (in Spanish)
tukanmx.com/shiny/apps/inf…

7. 📉 Disease modelers are wary of reopening the country. Here’s how they arrive at their verdict.

Another wonderful simulation by @Harry_Stevens @JohnMuyskens and the great team at @PostGraphics
washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/…

8. 🇪🇸 These were the two weeks that collapsed the Spanish national health system

Many details on one of the countries most affected by the pandemic by @elenasevillano @borjandrinot @kikollan & @danielegrasso
elpais.com/sociedad/2020-…

9. 🇿🇦 @media_hack and nonprofit @Bhekisisa_MG partner to build the most powerful tracker of #COVID19 infections in South Africa. Here's the result mediahack.co.za/datastories/co…