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24 Dec, 5 tweets, 3 min read
In London the number of daily confirmed cases has doubled within the last week.

[→ To be able to follow the rapid outbreak in the UK we have made the data for subnational regions available here ourworldindata.org/grapher/uk-dai…] Image
If you want to see the UK’s subnational data on testing, cases, and deaths, my colleague Hannah Ritchie lists the links in her tweet.

This is not looking good. Several regions have outbreaks even worse than London.

[ourworldindata.org/grapher/uk-dai…] Image
This is the development in all the London boroughs – and the average of England as a comparison, at the bottom.

[link ourworldindata.org/grapher/uk-dai…] Image
And the positive rate in all London boroughs.

[link ourworldindata.org/grapher/uk-cov…] Image

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26 Dec
We live at a very unusual time. We are among the very first generations who can make progress against large problems. Image
If we want to make progress against the problems we face, then this fact – that we *can* make progress – needs to be absolutely central to our culture.

Some people are building this culture, but it is still a long way to go.
By and large our culture is still the culture of pre-progress times: our media is not drawing our attention to the large problems we face and our education system is not teaching us that progress is possible.
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I guess this will be one of the most important maps to watch over the coming months.

Really happy that our page on COVID-19 vaccinations is online on @OurWorldInData: ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinat…

If you know of official data on vaccinations in other countries please let us know.
For data sources we will only include data published on official websites (or in press releases and by social media accounts of national authorities).

Otherwise it won’t be manageable – we’ve seen that when we built the testing database in the last months.

Thank you.
For all you researchers and journalists out there.

The vaccination data is now also available in our daily updated global COVID-19 database managed by our colleague @redouad.

You can download (and check!) all our data here:
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15 Dec
The number of confirmed cases has been declining in almost all regions of Spain.

The only two regions where cases are rising are the Balearic and Canary islands.

[source Spanish government here: mscbs.gob.es/profesionales/…]
The government started publishing the positive rate of tests a while ago – that’s very good and I wish all countries would do that.

But as you see the positive rate is still fairly high in many regions so that the true number of cases is likely quite a bit higher.
This is the number of confirmed cases in the whole of Spain and the positive rate in the entire country – both are coming down which suggests that this decline of cases is real and not just due to worsening testing.

ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-da…
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12 Dec
Around half the US population says that they are worried to be killed by terrorists.

The annual probability for an American to die in a terrorist attack during this period was 0.000051%

[ourworldindata.org/terrorism]
The countermeasures against terrorism – including the ‘war on terror’ – were extreme:
It cost trillions of dollars, killed tens of thousand of people, made millions to refugees, reduced civil liberties, legitimized intrusions into privacy.

And it failed entirely to reduce fear.
This looks unfortunately like a huge success for the terrorists.

As Scott Atran says “Perhaps never in the history of human conflict have so few people with so few actual means and capabilities frightened so many.”

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Just published my new @OurWorldInData post:

• Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?
→ And what can we do to use this global opportunity for green growth?

ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewabl…
Today fossil fuels – coal, oil, and gas – account for 79% of the world’s energy production.

But as this chart shows they have very large negative side effects.
Why is the world relying on power from fossil fuels if they cause so many deaths and such large greenhouse gas emissions? 

Because in the past they were *far cheaper* than other sources of energy.
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The European CDC will soon be switching to weekly data and I see several people concerned that this would create problems for Our World in Data and those who rely on data that they obtain via us.

This is not the case. We are well prepared.

Our data manager @redouad summarizes: Image
What the ECDC was pulling off in the last months was really phenomenal.

Very early in the pandemic – when alternative data sources were often extremely bad – the colleagues there woke up at 4 o'clock every morning to bring together reliable data from countries around the world.
We would definitely prefer if the ECDC would continue doing this work, but I very much understand that it needs to come to an end. And it can because there are good alternatives for case and death data available.
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