—The US is about to take over the cumulative curve, exceeding 20,000 deaths, and that of Italy and Spain
—For the 7-day rolling average, US soon to go over the top, may require a new Y-axis (hopefully not)
@FT #dataviz from @jburnmurdoch
To get to the current estimate of ~60,000 deaths in the US it will require a lot more flattening. Right now we are still at a 3+ day doubling time economist.com/news/2020/03/1…
npr.org/2020/04/09/830…
But encouraging, at right, is to see such consistent flattening across the hard-hit US states, reflecting their mitigation efforts