Thread by @statsjamie

🚨🚨 #Covid19 case fatality rate in South Africa is currently the lowest its been since start of the pandemic

◼️The rate is number of deaths divided by cases 10 days earlier

◼️Early days but this implies current wave less deadly & South Africa has lower vaccination rate than UK

This is one to track but this data at the moment supports the assertion by Dr Angelique Coetzee of the South African Medical Association who says its a mild disease.

https://twitter.com/statsjamie/status/1470093515157819398?s=20

Source: ourworldindata.org/covid-cases

I must stress this is early days so lets see how it plays out in the next week.

I think this is probably a better tracker

https://twitter.com/statsjamie/status/1470798507812528136?s=20