Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
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Ursula von der Leyen statement
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editThe short description doesn't need to repeat words from the title, e.g. covid, because it needs to be CONCISE. I cleaned it down a bit. ToniTurunen (talk) 10:05, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
source for cases and deaths?
editOn 2022-01-22T09:47:24 User:2a02:c7f:de87:9600:7039:ed64:69bd:96d0 changed the number of deaths from 1,168,758 to 1,168,708.
A change like this, especially by an anonymous user, raises questions about something like that. I looked for a source in the text and found 1,168,758 as the total number of TESTS in the section on "Statistics by country and territory". That almost certainly is wrong, because the UK by itself has reported roughly 400 times that number. I copied that table into a spreadsheet and totaled the columns for "Cases" and "Deaths" and got 121,102,103 and 1,675,476, respectively. The other columns contain too many missing values to attempt further computations without extra work. Those numbers look roughly comparable to what's reported in COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, so I'll accept them as plausible and change the the summary at the top to match.
The table is transcluded from someplace else. I don't know how to fix that right now and don't have time to look. I hope someone else will improve on this, but it seems reasonable and an improvement on the current text. DavidMCEddy (talk) 15:49, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
- I agree that totals line is completely out of kilter. I've put in closer figures, including a weighted average for the Deaths/million column. But I don't know where the original numbers come from. Chris55 (talk) 11:22, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
An editor has started an RfC about whether the announcement by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Energy that they support the COVID-19 lab leak theory should be in the lede of the COVID-19 lab leak theory article. Interested editors are invited to contribute. TarnishedPathtalk 23:51, 3 October 2023 (UTC)