The US & UK have the highest spread rates (ie daily % increase of cases) out of the most infected countries. And Spain is re-spiking & Australia is not much better.

Everyone must isolate as much as possible. If you CAN take your kids out of school do. But keep them away from grandparents.

Fortunately UK has reversed it’s INSANE ‘herd immunity’ approach (and given that SOMETIMES sensible logic a bad name forever). From tomorrow I’ll track the Netherlands who are sticking to it.

Obviously decision made 2 weeks ago are impacting these figures and will continue to because of the long incubation time. The US had slow rollouts of testing (which is important for proper contact tracing) & the UK briefly had a callous, academic-nutter approach to the pandemic and I suspect we will see that pan out over the next week.

My main daily chart below is now updated & includes Switzerland & Malaysia for the first time (& South Africa is fixed). As an ex-pandemic planner Epidemiology Research Fellow at University of Melbourne, Global Health Department I comment on each nations stats.

As mentioned everything happening is based on decisions weeks ago.

Everything we do now will be delayed by weeks in these figures.