I was asked to update my COVID-19 progression video. Despite knowing it would be quite depressing, here ’tis:
The video shows he relative spread across the U.S., showing weekly new cases per capita by state. The darker the shade, the higher the per capita new case count. A low threshold of 0.05% is used to equate white with a controlled (even if non-zero) per capita infection rate in a given state.
The video now runs at 4X the prior speed so that the entire pandemic timeline is summarized in 30 seconds.
In case you missed the lede, the resurgence is real. We’re considerably worse off now than we were in August of last year.
This time, however, the damage is self-inflicted.