5 Slide Series

This edition of the 5 slide series contains our tabulations of this week's COVID progression. By all key measures, this has been a troubling week in terms of the pandemic worsening. New deaths were 22% higher in the week of…

This week's edition of the 5 Slide Series tracks recent COVID-19 trends. We have summarized the weekly progression of cases, tests, and deaths through July 8 at the national, state, and county levels. 72% of the US population resides in…

This edition of our 5-slide series quantifies-- in numerous ways-- the disturbing resurgence of COVID-19. In 46 states, for example, the number of new cases emerging during June 23-30 surpassed the number from the prior week. The number of new…

This edition's COVID analytical focus has been on tabulating the weekly percentage increase in new tests relative to the weekly progression of new cases. Comparing June 17-24 with June 10-17, tests increased by 6% but new cases jumped up by…

This edition summarizes state and county dynamics regarding the progression of cases and deaths. We have tabulated new cases per capita by month in each state. More than half of the US population (54%) lives in a county that reported…

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…