Just a New York Problem?

Comparing Covid-19 to leading causes of death, state by state
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Editor’s Note

We are updating the map periodically with the latest available data. The text refers to the map as originally published, when data was complete through the week ending April 29.

Is Covid-19 mainly just a problem in New York? Not only New York City but the greater metropolitan area have been particularly devastated by the pandemic. This has led some to suspect that the city is skewing the overall data for the United States, so that a national view can’t capture what individual states are experiencing.

There is clearly some truth to this: the severity of the pandemic varies greatly from state to state. With this article, we are offering one way to visualize these differences.

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Ari Schulman, Brendan Foht, and Samuel Matlack, “Just a New York Problem?,” TheNewAtlantis.com, April 30, 2020.