5 Slide Series

This edition of our 5 Slide Series is our 20th special edition focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic. As with all prior editions, we have tabulated several highly current data points. The newest type of analysis involves quantifying differences in COVID…

This 5 Slide Series edition tracks COVID-19 trends in various ways, such as the weekly progression of cases and deaths throughout the past three months. We’ve also captured week-to-week COVID-19 testing trends on a national basis. The number of new…

This edition of the 5-slide series has multiple components. We have grouped all counties (and states) into cohorts based on their overall population per square mile, to quantify the relationship between population density and COVID cases per capita. As one would expect,…

This edition conveys our tabulations on the recent week's COVID developments. A key finding is that while new cases decreased by 3% nationwide this past week relative to the prior week, more than half the nation's population resides in a…

This edition of the 5-slide series quantifies COVID-19 per capita death rate differences by age cohort and between genders, tracks the recent emerging volume of new cases at the county, state, and national levels, and includes a slide on the…

This edition of the 5-slide series conveys four data tabulations: 1) distribution of COVID deaths by age; 2) distribution of COVID deaths by gender within each age cohort; 3) county level tabulations on new case growth; and 4) a set…

This edition tracks each state's progression of new cases across the months of March and April. The key statistic we focus on is the level of average new confirmed cases per day, which was higher during the second half of…

This edition provides COVID-19 case and death trends at the state and national level through April 23, also including information for each US territory. Our key encouraging finding is that for two consecutive weeks the number of new confirmed cases…

This edition of the Series focuses on US counties, showing the degree to which Americans reside in counties that may have moved past their peak in terms of new cases (52.2%), versus residing in counties where confirmed cases per day…

This edition tabulates the past week's progression of cases and deaths at the state and nationwide levels. The rate of new cases per day is still quite high (nearly 30,000 nationally) but did decrease 9% during the week of April…