Five years ago, the first person got infected with a novel coronavirus. Five years! My memory of that time oscillates between something that feels very recent still, and something far, far gone. Our World In Data provided much of the data that helped us make (some) sense of what was happening and that powered all these charts we were staring at, hoping for curves to bend. They have now published an extensive retrospective, which also reminds us that to this day people are suffering from, and dying of Covid. Five years later, an estimated 27 million people have lost their lives.

From Weekly Filet #505, in November 2024.