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During the last 15 days, global CMR's have mostly been dropping (finally) with the global average now at 1.713% compared to 1.891% in the previous period and 2.259% a year ago today.

Case number continue to skyrocket with 35M in the last 15 days compared to 14.38M in the previous period with 103,594 deaths in the last 15 days for a CMR of 0.296% on an unadjusted basis. That's only slightly more than the 97,939 in the previous period despite the increase in cases although the adjusted CMR based on the previous period case numbers is not so healthy at 0.721% but that's far from an exact science.

Note that 'adjusted' CMR uses the case numbers from between 16 and 30 days ago and the mortalities from the last 15 days

Overall the increase in cases numbers was 10.8% but the variance in the number of deaths only 1.9% so that's a positive sign.

Countries (with <100k cases) that were well above that growth rate are headed by Australia (+74.3%); Finland (+29.9%), Ireland (+26.9%); Italy (+26.6%); France (+26.5%), Greece (+25.8%); Cyprus and Denmark (+24.7%); Portugal (+23.4%); Spain (+22.2%); Switzerland (+21.2%) and Norway (20.6%). The USA +15.7%) and UK (+14.1%) weren't quite as bad.

Very few countries saw their mortalities increase by much with only South Korea (+11.1%), Australia (+13.1%) and Laos (+21.8%) having double digit growth amongst countries with >100k cases.