NEW: Over half of counties in the U.S. have had no #COVID19 deaths

Although all U.S. states have reported cases, the distribution of the cases and deaths has remained heavily concentrated in a small number of states—and a small number of counties

Let's dig into the numbers

As of May 4, just 10 states account for 70% of all U.S. cases and 77% of all deaths

Together, New York and New Jersey alone account for 38% of all cases and 48% of total COVID-19 deaths

Just five states—New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, and California—account for 54% of all of the confirmed cases in the U.S. and 61% of all coronavirus deaths

BUT these state-level figures don't adequately describe the concentrated nature of the spread of #COVID19...

As this chart shows, the 30 counties with the most COVID-19 cases account for 50% of all the cases in the U.S. (and 57% of all deaths)

That is, just 1% of the counties in the U.S. are responsible for half of the country’s coronavirus cases and more than half of the deaths

Of those 30 counties, 24 are in the Northeast corridor between Philadelphia and Boston—the passageway served by a commuter railway system that runs through Manhattan

Overall, just 11% of the counties in the U.S. contain nearly 95% of all the COVID-19 deaths

Just as important: 52% of all U.S. counties have had zero #COVID19 deaths as of May 4

Also as of May 4, 13 states have deaths that remain unallocated to respective counties. At most, those allocations could reduce the number of zero-death counties by 2 percentage points

The chart above also illustrates that 66% of all U.S. counties have no more than one coronavirus death

80% have five or fewer

86% have 10 or fewer

and 89% have fewer than 15

Put another way, only about 10% of the counties in the U.S. have more than 15 or more COVID-19 deaths—and throughout the epidemic, the spread of COVID has remained highly concentrated in a handful of geographic locations in the U.S.

What does this mean?

With many state and local governments starting to relax stay-at-home orders and #ReopenAmerica it’s instructive to examine just how concentrated the spread of COVID-19 has been in the U.S.

Don't take our word for it—dig into the data for yourself: https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/05/07/over-half-of-us-counties-have-had-no-covid-19-deaths/