1/ OK. B/c you guys are all freaking out you need to pull back from your worship of @COVID19Tracking and get down into the details where the devil is! Don& #39;t get me wrong... I love those guys! but it& #39;s at the STATE level and everything EVERYTHING happens county-side
e.g. May 27th

2/ Look at that big spike on Wednesday, May 27th. It looked like we had finally turned and corner and then bam! Another death account above 1300. What happened? Well, Providence, RI happened.

3/ For some reason the good folks of Providence dump their data in batches notching up 176 deaths in one day! But look at all those ZEROS to the left. Did 176 people die on May 26th? No... in fact if you go to RI data some of the deaths go back a month. Reported date SUCKS!

4/ As the old adage goes: "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts it& #39;s made of". As @tlowdon notes on today& #39;s jump to 700 deaths... Delaware dumped like 60 tallied deaths in one batch.
As I predicted on March 18th, the dashboards will doom us all. https://medium.com/@justin_hart/the-coronavirus-dashboards-will-doom-us-all-7dbbaf419d6f?source=friends_link&sk=8b1a005d965b7217e4101c0fc0b375e0">https://medium.com/@justin_h...

For those so inclined... the NYTimes made themselves useful for once has collected stats at the county level: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data">https://github.com/nytimes/c...