Alice in Dataland

An update on which places have had the most loss of life due to coronavirus since the beginning of the epidemic. -Alice

 Utah County has been going way up in case counts.  I had to increase the scale on the y-axis of this graph a lot... a bit over 6 active cases per 1000 has sufficed for quite a long time.  Then Utah County has swiftly moved upward...  4 cases per 1000 around Sep 10,  5 cases per 1000 around Sep 14-15,  6 cases per 1000 around Sep 16-17,  7 cases per 1000 around Sep 18-19,  8 cases per 1000 around Sep 21-22,  9 cases per 1000 around Sep 23-24 Also - noteworthy - Utah as a whole and Salt Lake County are right with each other on actives cases per capita and recently broke 4 cases per 1000.  For Utah as a whole 4 cases per 1000 was our worst before our current upswing and it happened around July 23 & 24.  Salt Lake County was above 4 active cases per 1000 from about July 2-29. Wasatch County is also seeing a bit of an uptick the last 2 or 3 days especially but somewhat for a week or 9 days.  Summit County has also seen a gradua...

Seemed worth comparing... -Alice

Everyone of these areas seems to be coming down... at least a little recently -Alice

This evening I found numbers for Orange County, California from the Orange County register that I wanted to throw in for comparison.  I'm working of population estimates of 3,180,000 for Orange County and 3,282,000 for Utah.  So Utah overall has just a little larger population than Orange County.  The last two or three days of stats are still subject to change and in some Utah cases estimated.

It's been more than a month since I did a proper review of Active Cases.  In this entry I am only looking at Utah and dialing in on certain counties that are of most interest to me.  I'll have to revisit broader information later on.  Again - active cases is the "curve" we are trying to flatten so that the cases that require hospitalization don't overwhelm the healthcare system.  Though it is important to note that who has the active cases is very important too - younger people have milder cases overall and older people need more healthcare/hospital access for COVID.  And these graphs don't address the issue of who is getting sick at all.  Hopefully as we lift regulations and cases go up - they are people who are weathering the COVID-19 pretty well as a group. This is the most up to date information being reported accurate to about July 7 or 8.  Where the officials didn't estimate active cases themselves, I chose to count cases that had been newl...