{"id":2051,"date":"2021-05-14T09:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T09:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2026-10-31T12:14:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:14:52","slug":"calculation-when-is-the-pandemic-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/calculation-when-is-the-pandemic-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculation: When is the pandemic over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The worst thing there is, is experts who don&#8217;t dare say what they think will happen in uncertain situations. So here is our contribution: we believe the pandemic will be over* by Midsummer, i.e. 2021-06-21.<br \/>\n*(the definition we used was that more than 1 person per day dies of Covid)<\/p>\n<p>To reduce sources of error, we calculated the number of deaths per number of patients in intensive care.<br \/>\nSo, provided that vaccine deliveries continue and no new variants of Covid start to spread, you should be able to enjoy your herring and schnapps as usual.<\/p>\n<p>How did we do this? We looked at other countries that were further ahead on the curve, created a mathematical expression for that curve, and extended it using Sweden&#8217;s underlying data.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/187025645_3464120053689439_758345107985794422_n-300x216-1.png\" alt=\"Calculation: When is the pandemic over?\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5023\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"xld-cta\" style=\"margin:30px 0;padding:18px 20px;background:#f5f4f4;border-top:3px solid #a0ce4e\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 8px\"><strong>Need help with this?<\/strong> Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/excel-consultant\/\">Excel consultants<\/a> can help you \u2013 the first consultation is free of charge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/contact-us\/\">Book a free call<\/a> or call <a href=\"tel:+46102642020\">010-264 20 20<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worst thing there is, is experts who don&#8217;t dare  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}