These Charts And Maps Show How The Coronavirus Outbreak Is Affecting Your Nearest US City

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Every US state has been hit by COVID-19. But numbers at the state level obscure the emerging story of the epidemic: So far, the worst outbreaks have happened in major urban centers, concentrated in hot spots like New York City, New Orleans, and Detroit.

The charts and maps focus on the death toll in cities and their neighboring regions throughout the nation. In the chaos and confusion of a worsening epidemic, some deaths from COVID-19 may not have been accurately recorded. These charts and maps will be updated daily from the best data currently available.

The most consistent local data on deaths from COVID-19 is being collected at the level of individual counties, rather than cities. So to map the toll across urban America, we analyzed “core-based statistical areas,” which consist of a county or combination of counties containing a city with at least 10,000 people, using data compiled by the New York Times.

Click on link for full article, charts and maps:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/coronavirus-maps-charts-us-cities-deaths

[tblue37]

1. K&R and thanks. nt

[appalachiablue]

2. Impt. info, thanks

[exboyfil]

3. What happened in southern Georgia?

That one is off the charts.

[crickets]

4. That's Dougherty County. Albany is the county seat.

Albany, Georgia, colored in a deep purple, currently has the highest death rate in the nation. The city and its surrounding rural area has fewer than 150,000 residents, but by April 3 more than 40 had died from COVID-19. Health officials have traced this intense outbreak, which disproportionately hit the local black community, to a funeral in late February, attended by someone who was unknowingly carrying the virus.

Southwest GA is not a fun place to be right now.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Sure would be nice to have wide-spread testing to know the true extent.