Here we go again...
In early January 2020 in Hong Kong, we started getting an indication of something spreading in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. Within a few weeks, HK schools were on hiatus starting from the Chinese New Year holiday, and are still closed. This is a global pandemic now, and there are far better resources to track it than there were back during SARS.
During the early phases of this everyone referred to it as the 'Wuhan Coronavirus' because of the likely origins of it. The State controlled Chinese media have now jumped all over everyone using that phrase calling it racist, and claimed that the virus may have come from somewhere else.
I changed the order of the graphs and the colours. Green is Recovered, Amber is still sick, Black is dead.
Some external visualisations:
- University of Washington (Best and most up to date, I think)
- Johns Hopkins University.
- WHO map
- World O'Meters
- HK CHP
Here are some of my visualisations, made from the sources listed above. They're updated automatically, usually around once per day, as the new data comes in. (Note that I'm not forecasting here. This is the observed data, not a prediction. This is quite frankly, scary enough as it is, without extrapolating.
Edit: These are much easier to read than the simple line plots. Note that the Y-axis is a log scale, so these show GROWTH.
Confirmed Cases since reporting started.
Confirmed Deaths since reporting started.
Confirmed Recoveries since reporting started.
Aggregated graph of World Cases. We're very clearly on the left edge of a bell curve.
Some country specific charts:
United States
Italy
China Cases (Mainland China only - does not include Hong Kong or Macau.)
Spain
Germany
France
Iran
United Kingdom
Switzerland
Netherlands
South Korea
Ireland
Some places that have been through this before and had more or less competent responses:
Taiwan, Republic of China
Hong Kong (Complicated because they keep reclassifying the data as being part of China which we technically
are, but not really.)
Singapore
Macau
Vietnam
My Python and Perl code to download and produce these is on Github: https://github.com/odaiwai/2020_SARS2-CoV_COVID19...
Now go WASH YOUR HANDS, wear a mask and stop touching your face!
