Covid-19 Death Analysis

One of the questions during the Covid-19 pandemic was why different countries have such different proportions of deaths relative to the number of disease cases. There were several hypotheses about this, including differences in medical facilities (countries with more hospitals should see fewer deaths), age demographics (countries with a larger proportion of older people will see more deaths), and existing mortality rates between countries (indicating pre-existing differences in overall health between countries).
The goal of this project was to use linear modeling to quantify some of the variation in mortality from Covid-19 in different counties due to differences in hospital infrastructure and demographics.

DATA SOURCES:

• Cases and deaths data retrieved from the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Visual Dashboard operated by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering
  • https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
• Hospital bed density by country data retrieved from the World Health Organization (WHO)
  • https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/indicator-groups/indicator-group-details/GHO/hospital-bed-density
• Country demographics retrieved from The World Bank
  • https://www.worldbank.org/en/home