First, on a personal note, I have received round one of one of the Covid vaccines. My experience for round 1, minimal side effects, mostly just soreness and redness at the shot location. (Now the logistics at a certain America’s largest retail chain left a lot to be desired, but fortunately I only have to do this one more time.)
Obviously I am pro-getting the vaccine. I don’t know if this will help, but if there are worries in regards to the quick development, it’s really a bit of a misnomer that the vaccine was developed in less than a year. You can read more at this link, but the quick version is that the developers were able to leverage vaccine development that is decades old and combined with the resources to do very large studies and having enough cases to make testing more viable, they were able to fast track versions for this particular virus. Bottom line, they didn’t have to start from scratch.
One note on the graphs before I present them, Oklahoma had a large dump of death reports on April 7th. I decided to adjust that number to smooth out the graph. So generally speaking, it looks like the reports of deaths are really continuing to decline, while the reports of cases have generally flatten out.
Data Source ā New York Times github
Data Info ā New York Times data info
Regions:
East North Central: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin
East South Central: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee
Middle Atlantic: Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
Mountain: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming
New England: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
Pacific: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington
South Atlantic: Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, and Virgin Islands
West North Central: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota
West South Central: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas
United States Graphs:
Regional Charts:
And finally the region comparison charts:
Next update in a couple of weeks.