torsdag 24 december 2020

A chart’s worth of hope

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Hi! This is David with Datawrapper. For the second to last installment of the Weekly Chart series this year, we have another Covid chart in store for you - this time though, a hopeful one.

After looking at almost a year of exponential growth charts, ever-shortening doubling times and choropleth maps running out of shades of red, I wanted to take a look at the most hopeful Covid chart I could find.

On December 10, Pfizer and BioNTech published a study about the trial results of their newly-developed Covid vaccine. Unless you’re a medical professional, it probably makes for somewhat dry reading. However, one piece of data visualization caught my eye that was striking enough to even make an effect on me as a layperson: