Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus

WikiProject COVID-19
I've created WikiProject COVID-19 as a temporary or permanent WikiProject and invite editors to use this space for discussing ways to improve coverage of the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. Please bring your ideas to the project/talk page. Stay safe, -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:33, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Case fatality rates
"The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003,[4][5] but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant death toll.[6][4]"

This is currently in the main article. I do not doubt this, because other countries show a similar pattern (if they have a comparable counting system + health care system and comparable aging distribution in the population) - but I would recommend to also add numbers right here, such as "transmission rate of R xyz" or whatever the value is. It is a bit cumbersome to click through all these external articles before reaching that number on your own. 2A02:8388:1641:8380:3AD5:47FF:FE18:CC7F (talk) 23:47, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Unusually un-noisy daily case counts
Much of the Belarus daily infection counts are less noisy than they should be: see the preprint (other forms of archiving:  ; ). For COI reasons, it would be best be someone other than me who adds material about this to the article. Boud (talk) 14:17, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is quite obvious. However, such is the official statistics, and there's not much we, as editors, can do about it, since anything apart from potential leaks, or specific Belarus-related publications would be considered an original research. -- Nicholas Velasquez (talk) 17:14, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It's research in a preprint - external to Wikipedia, submitted for peer review to a regular academic journal. I'm not neutral here, but you are. Using the abstract of an academic research article is generally considered the most reasonable way to use the information from it - Belarus is listed in the abstract; that's independent of my role as a Wikipedian. Boud (talk) 11:54, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for mentioning this, because somehow I forgot to search for "Belarus" in the paper. Going to add it. -- Nicholas Velasquez (talk) 12:28, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Belarus is now spelt in full (instead of just "BY") in the abstract of the final peer-reviewed version. I updated the ref to include the peer-reviewed bibliometry parameters. The peer reviewers' comments are themselves available at the journal website (right-hand column). Boud (talk) 19:23, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

reference list
The reference list is missing. Could you correct this? I need it for my research. Thanks a lot! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.229.229.168 (talk) 17:48, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

inside information
i know a guy that have a wife that is from belarus. she travelled there because her father died of corona. what she says is that they are building new graveyards which quickly fills up.84.212.107.130 (talk) 09:25, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

PEIS warning
The following warning appears on the page when you preview it:

Warning: Post-expand include size is too large. Some templates will not be included.

To reduce the amount of content that contributes to the issue, I suggest switching the six daily graphs found in the "Additional statistics" section to something more practical like weekly or monthly numbers. In its daily format, the x-axis labels as well as the data points aren't readable. If this doesn't resolve the warning, then I also suggest doing the same to the daily Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Belarus medical cases chart. Jroberson108 (talk) 12:42, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, haven't noticed it. Previously, a similar problem was resolved with the "Timeline" section being too big (it's content was just moved to separate articles), but I am not sure how to fix this one neither from the technical standpoint, nor from the standpoint of preserving the information, since switching to weekly/monthly values removes valuable data from the template's source code, if I understand what you're suggesting correctly. Perhaps, we should try moving the statistics to a separate page, maybe it fixes it. -- Nicholas Velasquez (talk) 00:33, 1 March 2022 (UTC)