Our Ukraine war tracker is now live. Using data from satellites and a custom machine-learning-based algorithm, it updates several times daily. You can check it here: economist.com/interactive/gr… When I made it, my aim was to create a system that was neutral, covered the entire country, and that enabled one to systematically track activity over time all the way to the present. The past 7 days have been v active

Weekly pandemic update (a thread): I will be using this thread to provide updates on the pandemic, as seen through excess deaths around the world economist.com/graphic-detail…

What is the pandemic's true death toll? After months of work, we are launching our daily updating estimate of excess deaths around the world. With official deaths at 4.5m, I estimate the true tally to be between 9.3m and 18.1m, as of today That includes deaths to covid-19, but also those lost to overburdened hospitals - and lives saved due to fewer ill with influenza. Rather than trying to distinguish between types of deaths, our approach is to count all of them

On @TheEconomist's cover this week: our model of the true death toll from covid-19 (1/23) economist.com/briefing/2021/… In the accompanying briefing, I show that while the official death toll is 3.3m, the pandemic has probably claimed 10m lives so far (viz: @MatterofMatt, interactive: @martgnz, edits: @Eaterofsun; 2/23)