Tag: Covid-19 State Graphs

While I am finishing up the individual state charts for Covid-19 infections for the United States, there is something that I find both interesting and disturbing. It has now become obvious that the United States is no longer on a downward trend on the daily covid-19 infections. While the United States isn’t gaining infections exponentially, it has definitely started an upward trend.

The best way to see the change is to look at a 7 day average of the daily infection rates.

As you can see, sometime around June 11, 2020 the 7 day average began to change directions, but it was only in subsequent days that we could be sure it wasn’t just a short-term change.

I must admit that I liked the way that it looked when all the states were put in a list that was organized by their number of normalized daily infection rates. So, I’m going to do it again.

As you can see, there are a lot of changes from last week. While California still has the worst normalized daily infection rate, Texas moved up to the number two slot. Illinois, New York, and Virginia have each regained enough control of their infections that all three dropped out of the top five. They were replaced by Florida, Arizona, and North Carolina.

The five states with the lowest normalized daily infection rates remain the same even if some of them have changed position.

One thing that doesn’t show up in the above list is some of the dramatic increases that are happening in some of the individual states. In order to see that, you have to look at the graphs below. While the graphs don’t make it as easy to compare one state to the others as the above list does, it does make it easy to see how each individual state is doing over time.