John Burn-Murdoch
Columnist and chief data reporter @FinancialTimes | Stories, stats & scatterplots | Senior fellow @LSEdataScience | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
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Lots of attention (rightly) on projections that China’s population might fall by ⚠️ roughly half ⚠️ by end of this century, but not sure people appreciate quite how widespread this...
NEW: ahead of Champions League final, we need to talk about financial disparities in football. For decades the sport has been quietly having its "frog in a pan of water" moment, a...
NEW: time for a Covid situation update Cases and hospitalisations are rising again across much of the western world. What’s driving the rise, and should we be worried? https://t....
NEW: I’m not sure people appreciate quite how bad the Covid situation is in Hong Kong, nor what might be around the corner. First, an astonishing chart. After keeping Covid at ba...
NEW: for the first time in the pandemic, a Covid infection now carries less mortality risk than a flu infection in England, the result of widespread immunity and the emergence of a...
NEW: first thread of 2022 is an Omicron situation update, starting with a detailed look at UK hospitals, before going international. Let’s start with severity, and the most import...
Thread summarising all of today’s Omicron severity data: Story from me, @mroliverbarnes and @rmilneNordic, running through new data from South Africa, Denmark, England & Scotland...
NEW: in the last couple of weeks there have a *lot* of new studies out assessing vaccine efficacy, many of which have touched on the question of waning immunity. Unsurprisingly, t...
NEW: time for a proper thread on B.1.617.2, the subtype of the Indian variant that has been moved to "variant of concern" today by Public Health England. First, it’s clear case nu...
We’re enormously grateful to those of you who have already done this. None of this work would be possible without you. We added new countries today thanks to you, and we’ll be add...
NEW: we’ve updated our excess mortality tracker, adding new countries and updating all locations 148k more deaths than usual across the 15 countries we‘re tracking; 54k above repo...
NEW: Thurs 23 April update of coronavirus trajectories Daily deaths: • Still too early to say if US has peaked • Looks like UK has • But descents appear to be much slower than asc...