We are on track to reach 2.7 million deaths worldwide as we progress through the pandemic. These visualizations show the daily number positive cases and daily number of deaths for any given country.
Notice how most countries have "waves" of cases and deaths that are especially apparent in Europe and Canada. Most countries either have one wave early in the year and a wave in the last quarter of the year or they only have one wave during the middle of the year. The US seems to be an outlier that has had three waves.
Select any country on the map to view their daily cases or deaths over time. You can view up to two different countries at once. To deselect a country, click it on the map again. Clicking and dragging on a section of the area graph will zoom in to that time interval and double-clicking will reset to the default time interval.
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The source of the global COVID-19 data used in both visualizations is Europa. See the sources section to learn more.
Government-instituted lockdowns have been instrumental in preventing the spread of the virus and in saving potentially millions of lives. However, some lockdowns have been far more effective than others. Here we see death tolls in different states represented by the size of the circles for those states. Within those states, the crimson circle represents deaths that occurred outside of a government-instituted lockdown. Click on the circles to zoom in and show more detail.
The United States is noted as having some of the largest and best Hospitals in the world, however most of them are currently struggling during this pandemic. Due to the many large waves COVID that have been sweeping across the country, we have seen a drastic increase in hospitalizations. Hospitals across the U.S. are constantly being stretched to capacity and experiencing equipment and personnel shortages. Intensive Care Units - where very sick COVID patients go - have been experiencing even more shortages in room and resources. It is very important that efforts are undertaken to prevent the spread of the virus to flatten the curve of infections and prevent Hospital overflows.
Due to the incubation time for the Coronavirus, the viruses death rate often lags behind any increase in cases for a couple weeks. Thankfully, further treatments have been developed to help fight the symptoms of COVID, but until a vaccine is released for the general public, the mortality rate for the virus is around 2%. This is still a very high rate, and supply and room shortages could increase the mortality rate if the infection rate becomes too high.
Despite our best efforts, the number of deaths continue to rise. Whether this is because not enough restrictions have been place or not enough of them have been followed is unclear. One thing we do know is that what we are doing right now isn't enough to slow the death rate.
Unless more measures are enforced, there is expected to be 2.76 million deaths worldwide by March 2021.
Please note that this data from the IHME has been smoothed because the original data had weekly spikes that were most likely due to when IHME recieved data rather than actual spikes in deaths.
Our project aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of how the United State handled the COVID-19 pandemic by comparing the current outcomes of the pandemic in different states as well as different countries. Our target audience is United states residents who want to further educate themselves on the pandemic without having to compare the data themselves.
Paolo Peani
Owen Daley
Victor Shan
Samek Mulepati
Yimeng Hou