Update from 6 October 2020: The wonderful animated bar was deleted by Tony due to issues with the data, details can be found here: https://rpubs.com/tonynick/covid_bar_chart_race_1
This is a bar chart race animation that shows the development of global deaths due to various causes and COVID-19 from January 2020 till today by Tony Nickonchuk on 10 June 2020.
Hat tip to Ben Uris.