Covid curve by region
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I was wondering how similar they are in population. The Midwest is surely the smallest and would look better adjusted. The south and west would look worse.
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That is a very interesting graph.
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@jon-nyc said in Covid curve by region:
I was wondering how similar they are in population. The Midwest is surely the smallest and would look better adjusted. The south and west would look worse.
I was curious so I added up the populations in the various regions. It turns out the Southeast is over 50% worse on a per capita basis than how it appears here, and all of the other regions are less bad than they look here. Interesting that the NE is the smallest region, as defined here at least.
These are the inflators/deflators you get when adjusting for population:
Midwest: 83%
Northeast: 68%
Southeast: 153%
West: 95% -
@jon-nyc What a nerd!
Kidding, good info. Why these COVID charts (even internationally) don't convert to per capita is beyond me.
Speaking of which, I almost wonder if the regions of the USA are on different paths to/from peaking the way countries around the world are. For example, many countries around the world are just now starting to peak.
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Imagine the right hand side of that graph with the green part half again the current size, while shrinking the other three.
Looks like the locus of US Covid went from NYC-area to Dixie.
Though the west is picking up too.
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That Dixie would become the epicenter as summer kicks off doesn't bode well for any significant seasonal effects. Also this is 'stay inside in the AC' season in much of the south and southwest.
