COVID: No Good States
I've been hearing increasingly dire reports about Covid infections in the news lately. How bad is it really? Looking at Covid-19 numbers for all the states, it's hard to say that any of them are ....
Category: Pandemic
EU Peak Covid Deaths, US Peak Cases
COVID-19 deaths/person in the EU and UK are about the same as the US this week, as they are in Germany and France. Italy is considerably higher and Spain lower. But... Peaks in deaths continue ....
Mixed Signals on Covid Responses
International case statistics show a range of trends in recent weeks. US cases have skyrocketed in recent weeks, as amply covered by the media. EU and UK cases also skyrocketed (left panel), starting a couple ....
COVID Death Update
Two weeks ago I posted graphics showing the path COVID was taking through the states. There has been a lot of news about rising caseloads throughout the country, but in recent weeks the rise in ....
COVID Deaths State to State
How hard has COVID hit different states? Though many dashboards show voluminous COVID statistics, I have not seen a clean comparison. Data on 50 states is just too much to take in at once, so ....
What’s Unique about US COVID Deaths?
How Are We Doing? How has the United States fared in the COVID-19 pandemic compared to other countries? As the country passed an estimated 200,000 deaths from the virus this week, news reports repeated the ....
Destroying The Economy Just to Save Some Old People?
Survival: Old vs. Young From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been some discussion about whether the harm from the virus is dire enough to justify the harm we are doing to the ....
Mistreated Food Workers are a COVID Hotspot
Jane Mayer’s article “Back to the Jungle,” in the 20 July New Yorker, looks at the labor struggle in a Delaware poultry plant as a microcosm of how food workers in America today are at ....
US COVID Deaths: Update
How is the US doing now that lockdown is being eased in many states? 13 weeks of weekly COVID-19 deaths/capita, for different sets of states. Here is a 3D version of the figure shown in ....
COVID Toll Across America
I have seen graphs of COVID-19 casualties in individual states and in the country as a whole. Here I display death statistics in a new way that more clearly summarizes the pandemic impact across the ....