Ok so this is a thread, but I wanted to come up with a visual way to see the difference between April in NY & NJ and today in the southern "hotspot states"
So I looked at CDC Provisional Death Counts in those areas. These will change (gray area the most), but it's still useful
I made the Y-Axis values go to the same level (8000) so you can see what happened in the Northeast vs. the south.
While there are population differences, the expected level of deaths in some of the areas are not actually that different from NYC & NJ
So with that said, here's NYC & NJ vs. Florida, which has been "the next NY" seemingly forever.
NYC vs. Texas, Georgia and Arizona
NYC & New Jersey vs. California
The point of these is to show that while there have been bumps recently in the southern hotspot states, there is no "next New York”. Nothing even remotely close to New York.
For clarity again, here's NYC vs. Florida, Texas and Georgia.
It's not close, it's not remotely close.
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