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Section sizes

Section size for COVID-19 pandemic in Europe (76 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	6,563	6,563
International comparisons	6,310	6,310
Statistics by country and territory	2,035	2,035
Pandemic by country and territory	40	140,430
Albania	79	79
Andorra	71	71
Austria	79	79
Belarus	79	79
Belgium	71	71
Bosnia and Herzegovina	99	99
Bulgaria	73	73
Croatia	5,300	5,300
Cyprus	1,616	1,616
Czech Republic	1,696	1,696
Denmark	2,803	2,803
Estonia	2,888	2,888
Finland	1,935	1,935
France	8,944	8,944
Germany	3,058	3,058
Gibraltar	496	496
Greece	11,557	11,557
Guernsey	1,283	1,283
Hungary	708	708
Iceland	1,870	1,870
Ireland	3,432	17,428
Lockdown	13,996	13,996
Italy	7,049	9,400
Lockdown	2,351	2,351
Jersey	1,759	1,759
Kosovo	1,080	1,080
Latvia	69	69
Liechtenstein	382	382
Lithuania	651	651
Luxembourg	188	188
Malta	1,040	1,040
Moldova	268	268
Monaco	955	955
Montenegro	77	77
Netherlands	5,395	5,395
North Macedonia	1,885	1,885
Norway	2,542	2,542
Poland	116	116
Portugal	2,902	2,902
Romania	71	71
Russia	4,901	4,901
San Marino	1,562	1,562
Serbia	1,837	1,837
Slovakia	2,314	2,314
Slovenia	1,348	1,348
Spain	8,648	8,648
Sweden	4,644	4,644
Switzerland	7,316	7,316
Turkey	116	116
Ukraine	625	625
United Kingdom	16,085	16,085
Vatican City	81	81
Pandemic development graphs	34	24,358
Confirmed cases and deaths by date	12,833	12,833
Total confirmed cases since first day of the outbreak	2,518	2,518
Growth rates comparison since outbreak	8,973	8,973
Response and criticism	29	27,647
Immigrants and refugees	2,525	2,525
Computational approach	2,282	2,282
Vaccination	1,333	1,333
Herd immunity through infection in Iceland	1,396	1,396
Criticism	16	19,849
Travel bans and border closures	9,880	9,880
EU solidarity	4,639	4,639
Reaction time of Spain	1,404	1,404
Military exercises during pandemic	1,253	1,253
Restrictions on civil liberties	951	951
Use of scientific advice	1,706	1,706
Romani people	233	233
Notes	36	36
References	457	457
External links	719	719
Total	208,555	208,555

Ursula von der Leyen statement

https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-186565 (English) https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-186566 (French)

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The short description doesn't need to repeat words from the title, e.g. covid, because it needs to be CONCISE. I cleaned it down a bit. ToniTurunen (talk) 10:05, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

source for cases and deaths?

On 2022-01-22T09:47:24 User:2a02:c7f:de87:9600:7039:ed64:69bd:96d0 changed the number of deaths from 1,168,758 to 1,168,708.

A change like this, especially by an anonymous user, raises questions about something like that. I looked for a source in the text and found 1,168,758 as the total number of TESTS in the section on "Statistics by country and territory". That almost certainly is wrong, because the UK by itself has reported roughly 400 times that number. I copied that table into a spreadsheet and totaled the columns for "Cases" and "Deaths" and got 121,102,103 and 1,675,476, respectively. The other columns contain too many missing values to attempt further computations without extra work. Those numbers look roughly comparable to what's reported in COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, so I'll accept them as plausible and change the the summary at the top to match.

The table is transcluded from someplace else. I don't know how to fix that right now and don't have time to look. I hope someone else will improve on this, but it seems reasonable and an improvement on the current text. DavidMCEddy (talk) 15:49, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that totals line is completely out of kilter. I've put in closer figures, including a weighted average for the Deaths/million column. But I don't know where the original numbers come from. Chris55 (talk) 11:22, 24 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:COVID-19 lab leak theory#Request_for_comment

An editor has started an RfC about whether the announcement by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Energy that they support the COVID-19 lab leak theory should be in the lede of the COVID-19 lab leak theory article. Interested editors are invited to contribute. TarnishedPath^talk 23:51, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]