Sometimes this blog will look at non-DC history-related visualizations. A century after the Spanish Influenza today’s Coronavirus COVID-19 situation prompts this–with numerous websites showing a variety of data of various quality and currency.
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[NOTE: WHO reported “… no evidence that wearing a mask … can prevent … infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19] https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331693/WHO-2019-nCov-IPC_Masks-2020.3-eng.pdf
Dr. Anthony Fauci explains why masks should not be worn by the general public: https://twitter.com/rhowardbrowne/status/1258015064319234048?s=20
CDC Statistics — https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/
Overall numbers: https://public.tableau.com/profile/peter.james.walker#!/vizhome/Coronavirus-ChangeovertimeintheUSA/0_Home
for example — for DC numbers click the DC circle. The data is analyzed many ways and easy to explore.
The source data: https://covidtracking.com/data/state/district-of-columbia
and DC data is here: https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/district-of-columbia
Background here: http://www.healthdata.org/covid These are the projections the Federal government has been using. Worth noticing the very wide confidence intervals.
United States here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Most of Worldometer’s visualizations are poorly designed, particularly in comparison with all the other sites which provide a far richer context and analysis.
Maps: https://www.bing.com/covid
Graphs here: https://www.bing.com/covid?vert=graph
DC data here: https://www.bing.com/covid/local/districtofcolumbia_unitedstates
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview.html
(but the visualizations are rather rudimentary) but interactive visualizations are available here:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluviewinteractive.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/
https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html
https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/main.html
some DC influenza data is here: DC Influenza Surveillance Data
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html is a bit tricky to navigate. Nature has done a feature on the behind the scenes activity https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/behind-johns-hopkins-university-coronavirus-dashboard
and many more links on the page
https://coronavirus.dc.gov/page/coronavirus-data
Each state also has its own COVID-19 website.
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