Coronavirus has come to Trump country

[Laelth]

9. It's very simple, actually.

I doubt you’re missing anything. At first glance, however, it looks more complicated than it is.

All sums on any given day must equal 100 (representing 100%, on each day, of new cases of COVID-19 reported in states that Clinton won in blue vs. states that Trump won in red AND, on the right, the percentage of new cases reported in counties that Clinton won in blue vs. counties that Trump won in red).

It says that the blue counties still have more, new reported cases per day but that they are trending down as the red counties (comparatively) trend up. It says that the blue states now have fewer, new reported cases per day (and are trending down, comparatively) while the red states have passed their blue counterparts in new cases per day and that they continue to trend upward in terms of the percentage of new cases per day in the United States.

That’s a good graph because it conveys all of the above information visually in a way that is much more efficient than my writing out its conclusions in English.

-Laelth