Introduction
I looked at the Ciovid-19 statistics from Johns Hopkins University. There are raw data for confirmed cases and deaths by date for each county in each state. The data also includes. I also extracted state population, area and population density from https://www.states101.com/populations on each state from
Results
Notes:
Deaths vs Confirmed:
- Straight line in log-log plot followed by most states. This indicates it follows a power law (exponential increase in both measures (deaths and % confirmed)).
- High outliers are NM and NH
- Washington state started getting confirmed cases first starting at the end of February.
- Washinton state started having deaths in early March
Deaths vs %population confirmed
- Wide dispersion (not all states on line as seen in log-log plot)
- % Confirmed and deaths both low for AK, VT, NH, ID
- Cluster of DE, DC and RI with low deaths compared to the % confirmed cases
- NY, NJ, MA, DE, CT, LA, RI DC have the highest % confirmed cases.
- By March 14th, WA, NY, CA, FL were reporting deaths.