Thread by @StevenTDennis, This chart is amazing. You have to watch it until the end. [...]

This chart is amazing. You have to watch it until the end. Wait for it...

Data from Johns Hopkins, make your own charts w/tool via @profwade_ at this link: https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countries&highlight=United%20States&show=25&y=both&scale=linear&data=cases-daily-7&data-source=jhu&xaxis=left&extra=European%20Union#countries

91-DIVOC : Flip the script on COVID-19 | 91-DIVOC

An interactive visualization of the exponential spread of COVID-19

https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countries&highlight=United%20States&show=25&y=both&scale=linear&data=cases-daily-7&data-source=jhu&xaxis=left&extra=European%20Union#countries

How about deaths per capita?

This chart shows the explosion of cases in the past month in Arizona and Florida, two states that had fewer recorded cases and deaths early on in the pandemic:

USA v Canada COVID cases, adjusted for population, animated

USA v EU, new COVID cases over time, adjusted for population

The story it tells is that the EU’s COVId outbreak was about as horrific as the USA’s was at the start, but they have put a lid on it while USA’s cases have now exploded, with deaths rising a few weeks later.

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