COVID19 in Germany

Exploring the impact of COVID19 in Germany

Ibrahim Al-Hindi
09-13-2021

Data Description

The data is sourced from the tidycovid19 R package created by Joachim Gassen on Github. The data in this package is collated from various sources and consists of the countries of the world and a multitude of variables that have been combined from the different data sources. For the purposes of this blogpost, the data has been filtered to Germany and the variables maintained are the following:

variable class description
date date Calendar date
daily_confirmed numeric Daily increase in Covid-19 cases
acc_confirmed numeric Accumulated Covid-19 cases
daily_deaths numeric Daily increase in Covid-19 deaths
acc_deaths numeric Accumulated Covid-19 deaths
daily_recovered numeric Daily increase in Covid-19 recoveries
acc_recovered numeric Accumulated Covid-19 recoveries
daily_vaccinations numeric Daily increase in Covid-19 vaccinations
acc_vaccinations numeric Accumulated Covid-19 vaccinations
icu_patients numeric number of patients in ICU
income factor income level of the country
population numeric population of the country

COVID19 Daily Cases Trend

The figure shows that Germany experienced one minor wave in early 2020 and two major waves. The first major wave was between October 2020 and Febraury 2021, and the major second wave was between March and May 2021. The peak of the first wave was 49,044 cases per day, while the peak of the second wave was 31,721 cases per day.

COVID19 Daily Vaccinations Trend in Europe and Germany

The figure above shows that country in the high income category occupy the top of vaccination rates, however it is important to note that the majority of countries in Europe are high income countries. Gibraltar can be highlighted in particular as possessing a vaccination rate higher than 200% at 232%, this could indicate that Gibraltar not only administered the two required doses for most citizens, but might in fact started to provide booster shots.

The graph shows that Germany ramped it its vaccination efforts starting in early April 2021 with a peak of 1,427,070 vaccinations administered on June 9, 2021. As per Our World In Data, Germany’s fully vaccinated rate currently stands at 62.3%.

The top two figures were combined with the figure showing the number of ICU patients to highlight how patient numbers increased in line with the number of COVID19 cases. Likewise, the number of ICU patients fell as the vaccine rate increased. This highlights the positive impact of the vaccines in preventing hospitalization to COVID19 as a minimum.

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