The following data was accumulated from The Covid19 Tracking Project by The Atlantic.
I realized I forgot a very important aspect of my comparison: Percent of State Population with Covid.
As the graphs in my previous post will show you, the virus is mostly the same in both states, the spread rates are similar, the Death % was similar, though Cali had a spike, overall the virus acts the same from coast to coast. And while that in itself is interesting, it didn’t tell me how the virus actually affected the states population.
The following graph is based on the percentage of the states population with Covid at any given date from March 6th, 2020 to January 17 2021.
As you’ll see, the states start off similar until June when Florida jumps by a full percent higher than California. As you may remember, Florida started to re-open around May 18th.
The thing I find very interesting is that the two lines converge again in January, meaning the states hit the same population percentage. After that, Florida falls behind as California continues to climb.
I am purely a sideline speculator when it comes to this, I’m doing it for the data. As you may know from a previous post, I had Covid during Christmas. There was a formal positive test and everything, I had all the symptoms and even had a symptom that only 30% of people report; eye socket soreness.
But it does interest me to see that a closed state (Cali) and an open state (Florida) have intersected instead of separating like you think they would.
So I ask you Californians, what on earth are you doing?