Here’s another Covid-19 tracker that demonstrates the resurgence – or perhaps first peak – of the disease throughout the United States:
It also includes a state listing sorted on the rolling 7 day average of daily new cases / 100K people, which may be even more useful. As you can see, at least by new infections, Arizona’s doing poorly.
New infections are a mediocre proxy, I suspect; the real question is how many hospital beds will be consumed by these new infections, especially in ICUs. That, after all, was the entire point of the shutdown: conserving those beds. It might be a useful exercise to make this a predictive exercise, based on whatever characteristics are available in the data feeds.
But, as predicted, we can see those southern states that reopened earlier than the rest of the country are experiencing new infections in greater quantities than the rest of the question. Some states are reporting hospitals are under a lot of strain in Florida, Texas, and Arizona. If we start digging mass graves again …
