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Well done, log scale, rebased to common starting point - the best way of depicting international comparisons so far.

Zeit.de has an interactive version of these (in German), which adds a rectangle for "days since numbers last doubled", a good indicator of how severe the situation in a country is.

Scroll down past the map to the third graph with international data, click on "Todesfälle" (deaths): https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/coronavirus-echtzeit-k...

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> Well done, log scale, rebased to common starting point - the best way of depicting international comparisons so far.

Yeah, its what the Financial Times and many others have been using for quite a while, log graphs with a starting point of the Xth death or Yth case. Its a standard way of presenting this kind of data.

But the FT doesn’t display that graph anymore, only it’s first derivative. I liked the original graph (maybe I am better at deriving than integrating...)

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