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- Florida reported its first cases 3/3/20 and its first death 3/8/20, the same days as the Kansas and Missouri announced their first confirmed cases. None of the other 6 states had any confirmed cases b y this date.
- As would be expected since Florida has over three times the population of any of the other states, its confirmed cases and. deaths lead the way by a wide margin.
- In terms of deaths/confirmed cases Missouri lead until the end of July when Mississippi took the lead.
- When one normalizes cases by the population of each state, then the confirmed cases and deaths are more evenly spread, and none of the states has flattened its curve of confirmed cases.
US States time series plots of Covid-19 cases, May-June
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