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The Global Times newspaper, which is linked the Chinese Communist Party government, said the UK was becoming “an isolated island”. It also referred to other media reports in which the UK was branded “the sick man of Europe”.
Why the International Statistic of the Year is 332
That is the number of days it took for scientists to develop the coronavirus vaccine. Experts had earlier estimated that the vaccine would be ready by November 2033. | Ronen Zvulun/ Reuters
Scientists in China published the complete genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 on January 10. On December 8, health officials in London began administering an effective coronavirus vaccine to the public. The global scientific community successfully developed a Covid-19 vaccine in just 332 days.
I am a statistician, and this year I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Year. Much like the Oxford English Dictionary’s “Word of the Year” competition, we choose one statistic that is meant to capture the zeitgeist of the year.
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