CoVid Plots and Analysis

<p># COVID-19</p><p>Plots and analysis relating to the coronavirus pandemic. Includes five sets of plots and associated R code to generate them.</p><p>1) Heatmaps</p><p>Updated every few days - heatmaps of COVID-19 case and death trajectories for Local Authorities (or equivalent) in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Germany.</p><p>2) All cause mortality</p><p>Updated on Tuesday (for England & Wales), Wednesday (for Scotland) and Friday (for Northern Ireland) - analysis and plots of weekly all-cause deaths in 2020 compared to previous years by country, age, sex and region. Also a set of international comparisons using data from mortality.org</p><p>3) Exposures</p><p>No longer updated - mapping of potential COVID-19 mortality exposure at local levels (LSOAs) in England based on the age-sex structure of the population and levels of poor health.</p><p>There is also a Shiny app which creates slightly lower resolution versions of the same plots online, which you can find here: https://victimofmaths.shinyapps.io/covidmapper/, on GitHub <a href="https://github.com/VictimOfMaths/COVIDmapper">https://github.com/VictimOfMaths/COVIDmapper</a> and uploaded to this record</p><p>4) Index of Multiple Deprivation </p><p>No longer updated - preliminary analysis of the inequality impacts of COVID-19 based on Local Authority level cases and levels of deprivation. </p><p>5) Socioeconomic inequalities. </p><p>No longer updated (unless ONS release more data) - Analysis of published ONS figures of COVID-19 and other cause mortality in 2020 compared to previous years by deprivation decile.</p><p><br></p><p>Latest versions of plots and associated analysis can be found on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/victimofmaths">https://twitter.com/victimofmaths</a></p><p><br></p><p>This work is described in more detail on the UK Data Service Impact and Innovation Lab blog: <a href="http://lab.ukdataservice.ac.uk/2020/05/21/visualising-high-risk-areas-for-covid-19-mortality/">https://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/visualising-high-risk-areas-for-covid-19-mortality/</a></p><p><br></p>Adapted from data from the Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.1.0.<div><a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/">http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/</a><br></div>