How can we identify which countries have responded well to the Coronavirus pandemic? We look at the key metrics that help us identify success stories.

Excess mortality has become a key metric to understand the true impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. But how is excess mortality measured; and what can we learn from cross-country comparisons? Janine Aron and John Muellbauer provide an overview on excess mortality statistics.

We teamed up with the YouTube channel Kurzgesagt to produce a video on climate change: ‘Who is responsible for climate change? – Who needs to fix it?’.

Data on COVID-19 testing is crucial. But not all countries report their data in a helpful way. To help official providers of testing data, we set out some simple recommendations based the best reporting practices across the countries included in our testing dataset.

It is by looking at data on confirmed cases alongside data on testing that we get the best view of how the outbreak has developed in different countries, and how successfully countries have responded to it. In this post, we compare the approach to testing taken over the outbreak in South Korea, Italy, UK and US.

How are countries responding to the pandemic? When and what measures have countries put in place?

Data on the extent of testing for COVID-19 provides important information about the reliability of the data we use to understand the spread of the virus’. Here we discuss two measures of the extent testing and what they can tell us about the pandemic.

Our goal is to bring together the best data and build the visualization tools that allows you to understand the spread of the pandemic. Our free, open-access charts cover all countries in the world. Here we show how to customize and embed charts in your own articles.

Without testing for COVID-19 we cannot know how many people are infected with the disease. And without this data we cannot know what is happening. That is why we are bringing together the available data on testing from countries around the world.

If someone is infected with COVID-19, how likely is that person to die? We look closer at the metrics used to discuss mortality risk, and what we can and cannot say from the available data.

We worked with the Youtube channel, Kurzgesagt, to make a video on the COVID-19 pandemic and what to do about it.

There are three main data sources on the latest Coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). How do estimates of confirmed cases and deaths compare?

Food losses and waste – in supply chains and by consumers – account for around one-quarter of greenhouse gas emissions from food. That’s 6% of total global emissions.

How we treat the climate impacts of methane has a significant difference on the carbon footprint of foods. But even if we exclude methane, meat and dairy products have the highest footprint.