With the world debating the vaccine-versus-variant race here is what has been happening on the ground. Looking at countries (of over 5M)...

Case numbers continue to fall around the world - the effect of significant restrictions, especially in Europe. And this is now...

If you look at the top ten countries with the highest death in the world they are all in Europe. Gibraltar - 2,167 per million San Marino...

Happy Burns Day! I would imagine many of you have never heard of Robert Burns yet alone have attended a Burns Supper. He is widely...

Well, here we are on the eve of one hundred million official cases, with over a quarter of those still active. In Canada, case rates and...

The world has now seen over two million official deaths from COVID-19. But there is some good news. It looks like the measures in...

The world has now reached ninety-million official cases. and is closing in on two million deaths. North America, followed by Europe, are...

As discussed before, Africa as a whole, with the notable exception of South Africa, has been faring well compared to Canada ( Thought of...

Welcome to the first "By the Numbers" of 2021. The great news of course is the continued rollout of mass vaccinations, now close to 15...

The world is now over 80M cases and Canada over 550k. Staggering numbers. As mentioned, hospitalizations are becoming a more effective...

This week I am changing it up. Instead of COVID itself, let's have a look at the Canadian economic data. While I have no background in...

As you are probably well aware, the world now has over 70M official cases and 1.6M deaths. With improvements happening in Western Europe,...

This week let's look at some more novel presentation of COVID data, as well as see what has changed since the kid have gone back to...

The world has now topped 60 million cases and is closing in on 1.5M deaths. Unfortunately Canada is continuing to see rising case...

As we have seen Belgium has the highest case rate and death rate per capita in the world; over six times the case rate and four times the...

During the past week Canada surpassed three-hundred thousand cases and eleven thousand deaths. But guess which regions saw the highest...

Rather than focus on the alarming figures in the western world, in Canada and in BC, I thought I would focus on some "success" stories;...

So the world now has over fifty million official cases, the world has over one and quarter million deaths, and the world has seen over...

The "western world" is still the epicentre of this pandemic. Asian and African countries by and large are still seeing dramatically...

I recently received an email from a friend in Japan. Here is a paraphrased excerpt: Fortunately in Japan the wave of the COVID-19's...