Appendix - COVID Graphics and Data

DATA SOURCES:

1. U.S.-level COVID test and case data is provided by John Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine and used in accordance with a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License.

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2. U.S.-level COVID data for cases & deaths on some charts is provided by The New York Times, based on reports from state and local health agencies. It is used in accordance with The New York Times and with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.

Links to the New York Times data can be found here. [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html]

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3. Data for country-level visualizations and charts, unless otherwise noted, was downloaded and used from Our World in Data (OWID) and is used in accordance with a Creative Common CC-BY license granted by OWID.

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4. Prior to JHU, the COVID data was provided by the COVID Tracking Project (CTP) at The Atlantic and used in accordance with a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License. The CTP ceased updating data on March 7, 2021. Further updates were continued by JHU.

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5. The state populations used for calculating per capita rates were obtained from the United States Census Bureau. The most recent full year values listed were for July 1, 2019 at the time of this writing. A link to the source data is here.

A listing of these values is shown in Table A-1. Click on the table below to expand.

Table A-1. U.S. Census Bureau 2019 state population estimates.

SOFTWARE:

The software used to process and produce most charts on this COVID section of the web site was:
DataGraph 4.6.1 for macOS. It is made by Visual Data Tools, Inc.

Additional software used to post-process raw csv data files downloaded from the data sources listed above or add design elements to this site include:
Microsoft Excel 365 for Mac
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign

ADDITIONAL NOTES