Context: Fox News screen capture from @atrupar.
There are two huge problems with this chart.
There are two huge problems with this chart.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1336342829333929985
@atrupar The first is that over 99 cases per 100,000 is an incredibly high number; higher than most countries have *ever* recorded (including the USA). Coding states with that number as yellow is insane. (The chart below shows cases per million, so 99 per 100,000 is off this chart high.) 
@atrupar Second, even with the scale problem, the data are randomly wrong. Below is the actual CDC chart. (Note that Oklahoma is missing data; they should probably be a pretty dark blue). The Fox map does not seem to be based on actual data. covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
Some comments defending the Fox chart as supposedly being based on total cases over the last seven days, not the daily average. If this were true, the chart is even more incorrect. If Fox had done that, the only blue state would be Hawaii, & there would be zero green states.
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