Monday, June 22, 2020

Coming to a Red State Near You

COVID-19 originally hit blue states. Now it is mostly in red states:
That was new cases. Here's total cases (this one is hard to interpret because the scale is not logged):
Because the data isn't logged, you can't interpret the slopes on the left as growth rates, making it impossible to compare with the first chart. Basically, once the red line passes the blue line in the top charts, then the reddish border at the bottom right will start angling up more steeply.

These are from the Washington Post piece (probably paywalled) entitled "Coronavirus Has Come to Trump Country".

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