The maps that show just how disastrous the US's coronavirus outbreak is

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Stephen Jorgensen-Murray has created an astonishing visualisation of the catastrophic acceleration of Covid-19 infections in the US, which we build on here with his permission. Applying the threshold set by the German government for the triggering of local lockdowns – 50 cases per 100,000 residents in a week – to various countries, including Germany, the UK, France, Italy and the US, gives us a snapshot into quite how disastrous the US's outbreak is compared to that of other Western countries. Not all of these administrative units are exactly equivalent, though they do give an indication of where the worst outbreaks are on a local level.
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But cross the Atlantic and take a look at the US, and the outbreak is off the scale. There are 1,094 areas, collectively home to about 52 per cent of the US population, that exceed the 50-cases threshold. Almost the entire territory of Florida is shaded red. The worst affected area is East Carroll Parish, in Louisiana, where the rate of infection is 1,210 per 100,000 people.

[link:https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2020/07/maps-show-just-how-disastrous-uss-coronavirus-outbreak|]
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You need to click on the link and scroll down to zoom in on the US map to look at it on a more granular level. The rates right now are shocking. Gotta tell you Trump is so bad he is actually making Boris look competent - and we at this point have had more excess deaths per 100,000 of the population than anywhere else... How the Trump administration has handled in pandemic in comparison to say Markel who he had the fucking nerve to call fat and stupid (all of the ironies), should be shoved in the face of this administration every single day.