Governments in Latin America are just starting to implement social distancing policies, many of them a month behind other countries in the world. Even so, our contributors have been reporting photographs of “social-distancing evidence” since the beginning of March 2020, albeit official government actions only beginning toward the end of the month. On March 20th,
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The Indo-Asia Pacific is often referred to as a patchwork of cultures, languages, history and traditions. We see these variations in the data submissions collected across our global network, which paint a picture of diversity in daily life. The COVID-19 Coronavirus has impacted virtually every country around the world at varying levels, and Premise has
Read More...A few weeks ago on March 16, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared Coronavirus, also referred to as COVID-19, a pandemic. Living in this new pandemic world is definitely a strange and scary one. And while each one of us is having different experiences, we share one thing in common – disruption to
Read More...The Current State of Affairs As COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe with over 750,000 cases globally, Premise has continued to monitor sentiment, especially in the United States, which now has the most confirmed cases of any single country. (Over 205,000 cases and counting.) In the face of this spread, state and local governments
Read More...The first case of novel Coronavirus was detected on December 31, 2019 in Wuhan, China. Since then the respiratory disease causing virus has spread rapidly across the globe and was officially declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO). According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, there are now almost
Read More...The latest analysis by crowdsourcing data company, Premise Data, into the UK lockdown suggests that British people are broadly supportive of the Government’s latest measures and are isolating where they can. However, it remains to be seen how long people will continue to support the Government’s stringent measures. Premise has identified a number of leading
Read More...Thirteen days ago when I wrote the Initial Analysis from Premise Data of the economic impacts of COVID-19, China had 17 times the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases as the United States. Today the United States has surpassed China with over 150,000 confirmed cases, exponentially growing daily. The ‘Stay at Home’ orders—in some places like
Read More...Just over two months since the U.S. reported its first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on January 21, numerous states around the country have enacted strict “shelter-in-place” measures closing all businesses deemed non-essential to curb the spread of the virus and “flatten the curve.” With a national death toll surpassing 1,000, and economists
Read More...Earlier this week, Premise provided a look at Italy and how its high levels of COVID-19 cases continue to impact daily life. In this post, we will look at the COVID-19 impact in Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Burkina Faso. According to Johns Hopkins research, Burkina Faso has reported only 152 COVID-19 cases as of this writing,
Read More...As COVID-19 has spread across the U.S. in recent weeks, health officials are strongly encouraging people to use “social distancing” to help “flatten the curve.” These concepts stem from a major recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC), which is that one of the best ways to reduce
Read More...As information-sharing technology continues to innovate, the speed at which information is spread is only getting faster. Yet, with that speed comes unprecedented and newfound accountability; How do we ensure that the speed at which information is spread is not conflated with accuracy? An increasingly popular topic at the crux of this issue is the
Read More...As cases of COVID-19 continue to skyrocket around the world, many are looking at Italy. Italy has quickly become the new epicenter of the pandemic, with over 63,927 cases (as of March 23, 2020, at 2:06 p.m. PST) and health officials are urging people to take social distancing actions or else end up in the
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