Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19): Relative Data of the states of the USA
The diagrams below show the data of confirmed cases and deaths of states in USA as collected by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and
Engineering (JHU CSSE) and published on
Github.
The used data are as provided by JHU CSSE and its sources, including some obvious errors like a decrease in
confirmed cases or deaths. The time period of shown data is from 3 March 2020 to 11 July 2023 (yesterday). Data is updated each day at 7:05am Central European Time (06:05 UTC) - JHU CSSE publishes data just before 05:00 UTC currently. Changes: 24 May: diagrams about recent increase added / 11 October: relative timeline replaced by fixed starting dates. 23 November: "increase compared" period extended to 7 days.
The shown data are relative!
Why? Covid-19 data as shown on the Arcgis system are totals of a state. In the USA states have a
population from about 40 million down to only a few millions. 5000 confirmed cases have a definitely
different weight in a state with a high and in a state with a low population. Therefore the totals of a
state are related to its population in the diagrams below.
This relative approach results in these settings of a diagram's axes:
The vertical y-axis value is the number of confirmed cases or deaths per 100,000 persons of the population
of a state.
The horizontal x-axis shows dates of Mondays since 24 Februars 2020 - up to last summer only biweekly.
The dates on the horizontal axis are shown in 14-day and 7-day-steps but the values are shown for each single day. The dates are shown in the format "day/month/"
The lines of the states use a set of about a dozen different colours. This helps to differentiate the lines.
If you hover over a line the name of the state and the value at this point of the diagram is shown.
If you hover over the name of a state below the x-axis the lines of all other states are faded out, only the line of this state is still bright. This helps to follow the line of a specific state.
If you click on the name of a state this name is fading out and the line of this state is not shown anymore! If a state with high values is faded out smaller values are "zoomed in".
In you click on the "Deactivate all states" button all lines disappear and all state names are fading out. If you click on the name of a state its line is shown - this can be done for many states.
For zooming the diagram use the icons of menu in the upper right corner.
Confirmed Cases
Cases per 100,000 persons, since 2 March 2020
Confirmed Cases - total increase in the past 7 days