Geography in COVID-19
This is a short piece that aims to explore the relationship between English and Welsh geography and COVID-19 deaths. For my previous piece on excess non-covid mortality, see here ( All the data should be available for you to play around with - see the blurb at the bottom) The last few weeks I have looked at non-excess deaths, now I want to look a bit broader: where is the mortality within the UK - and how does it map with COVID incidence. This has come about from conversations - largely with Danny Dorling and George Davey Smith - and thank them both for their thoughts. Errors and incorrect conclusions are entirely mine. FIrstly, COVID-19 is an infectious disease (duh) and spreads like one - from person to person. So geography is important. It started in Wuhan, China, and then made its way to the UK, via lots of routes - we don’t know them all, yet, but likely through hundreds of separate, small introductions, from Italy, from Singapore, etc. And the UK geography is at ...