• We use data from the Johns Hopkins university for countries:
  • global confirmed COVID cases dataset;
  • global COVID deaths dataset;
  • USA confirmed cases dataset;
  • USA deaths dataset;
  • JHU global population dataset which is in turn compiled from different sources, see here;
• and data from the German Robert Koch Insitute (RKI):
  • cases and deaths by each administrative region (Landkreise) of Germany;
  • German population data for each of 412 regions;
• also we use a separate dataset for COVID cases in Hungary.

The above mentioned sources are listed in this python file.

Data Analysis

• All computational steps and code are available (see Open Science) -- contributions and corrections welcome.