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The Economist's model to estimate excess deaths to the covid-19 pandemic
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates
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Look into Kosovo data #20

Closed sondreus closed 2 years ago

sondreus commented 2 years ago

Currently, we do not provide estimate for Kosovo (has to do with how its contested status is treated by some of our sources). Would be worth an effort to get it included.

akarlinsky commented 2 years ago

Both WMD (https://github.com/akarlinsky/world_mortality) and WHO COVID Dashboard (https://covid19.who.int/table) include Kosovo.

In WMD, our decision rule is if the territory has an independent vital registration and/or covid figures. Kosovo does. other examples include Palestine and various European overseas territories (such as Aruba).

sondreus commented 2 years ago

That all makes sense to me

sondreus commented 2 years ago

Kosovo data is now added and online. Next time I think writing a tweak to "countrycode" might be the faster way to fix this. Thanks for the suggestion, it improved our work.