North Dakota records world's highest COVID-19 mortality rate

[Coin3 66]

I agree that the analysis referenced in the article is too focused to get a good look at the big picture. It'd be nice if they included graphs of the same measure over time, like Our World in Data does: 

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&country=USA~GBR~CAN~BRA~AUS~IND~DEU~FRA&region=World&deathsMetric=true&interval=smoothed&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc 

(their data only includes total U.S. numbers, not state-by-state).

 

Edit: Nevertheless, I believe that ND having the highest number of deaths relative to population at any point in time is not a good thing, and should not be discounted as cherry picking.

Edited November 17, 2020 by Coin3
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[Coin3 66]

Since Our World in Data doesn't have state-by-state numbers, I did some looking around, and found that the CDC website has the data I was looking for.

 

 

The latest entry on 11/14 is 18.4 deaths per million capita, just about matching the data from the article, which showed 18.2 for the week ending 11/15. Looking at the graph, it's easy to see that there is an upward trend within the last few months.

 

Just as an example, you can compare this to New York, which peaked as high as 50 deaths per million capita earlier in the year, but has since gone down to 2.7.

 

 

You can check out these graphs and a wide range of other data here: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#pop-factors_7daynewdeaths

 

I hope this information is useful to those who are doubting the article due to its admittingly click-baity nature. If you're going to spend so much of your time posting in a thread that you didn't even read the article for, you might as well spend a bit of time to look into the situation yourself.

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51 minutes ago, Coin3 said:

Since Our World in Data doesn't have state-by-state numbers, I did some looking around, and found that the CDC website has the data I was looking for.

 

 

The latest entry on 11/14 is 18.4 deaths per million capita, just about matching the data from the article, which showed 18.2 for the week ending 11/15. Looking at the graph, it's easy to see that there is an upward trend within the last few months.

 

Just as an example, you can compare this to New York, which peaked as high as 50 deaths per million capita earlier in the year, but has since gone down to 2.7.

 

 

You can check out these graphs and a wide range of other data here: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#pop-factors_7daynewdeaths

 

I hope this information is useful to those who are doubting the article due to its admittingly click-baity nature. If you're going to spend so much of your time posting in a thread that you didn't even read the article for, you might as well spend a bit of time to look into the situation yourself.

Well done!