7 Jul 2021

The Normalcy Index

From Nights, 9:10 pm on 7 July 2021

We talk to data journalist James Fransham from The Economist magazine , who has developed a "normalcy index" to measure changes in human behaviour around the world based on data gathered at daily and weekly intervals to evaluate how life has changed since the onset of the covid pandemic. 

People wait to enter a store in a shopping mall as stores limit the number of customers allowed inside during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on July 03, 2021. Ontario is now in the second stage of the 3 stage reopening plan.

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