Thread by @charles_gaba

📣 Weekly Update: Which *COUNTIES*have the highest per capita rates of #COVID19 cases & deaths? 1/
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Counties w/highest #COVID19 cases per capita:
1. Crowley County, CO
2. Norton County, KS
3. Lincoln County, SD
4. Bon Homme County, SD
5. Dewey County, SD
6. Buffalo County, SD
7. Chattahoochee County, GA
8. Lake County, TN
9. Trousdale County, TN
10. Buena Vista County, IA
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27% of Crowley County, CO has tested positive for #COVID19.

There's now 7 counties where at least 20% have tested positive, and 243 counties where at least 10% have.

86 of the top 100 voted for Trump this year.
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Counties w/the highest official #COVID19 *mortality* so far:
1. Gove County, KS
2. Jerauld County, SD
3. Dickey County, ND
4. Gregory County, SD
5. Foster Count, ND
6. Emporia, VA
7. Turner County, SD
8. Hancock County, GA
9. Ness County, KS
10. Pierce County, ND
4/

1 out of every 132 residents of Gove County, KS have died of #COVID19.

There's 14 counties where it's killed at least 1 out of every 200 residents.

There's 400 counties where it's killed at least 1 out of every 500 residents.

81 of the top 100 voted for Trump this year.
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There are now just 91 counties nationwide (out of over 3,200 total) which haven't reported any #COVID19 *deaths* so far.

Total population of all 91 counties? 468,000 people.

There are just 3 counties which haven't reported any *cases* so far.

Total population? 3,070 people.
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Finally: #COVID19 can now be officially declared a completely nonpartisan virus even by the most cynical, tribal standards: Cumulative official *cases* are 13% higher per capita in *red* counties while official *deaths* are just 9% higher per capita in *blue* counties. /END

Note: As I mention in the blog entry, for context (and as Trump supporters keep screeching about), Trump won 82% of all U.S. counties (though he only won 79% of them by 6 points or higher).

This, of course, is the entire reason I run this analysis on a *per capita* basis.