In brief: Corona special
Vital statistics
Numbers, data, calculations – in a crisis, you need statistics. Here’s a selection from our editorial team.
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85%
In March 2020, when most European countries went into lockdown, 85% of the preprints uploaded onto the international platform MedRxiv were about Covid-19 research, namely 716 articles.
190
The number of commentary articles addressing “The Politics of Covid-19” selected every day on average in March 2020 by The Syllabus, a global curation website launched by Internet critic Evgeny Morozov.
161
The number of pharmaceutical treatments and vaccines for Covid-19 listed as being in development by Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News on 13 April 2020.
1 billion
The daily hits in March 2020 on the international online data and maps provided by the Coronavirus Covid-19 Global Cases platform at Johns Hopkins University.
