Another vote for a color legend on the map, please. Also, more information about the source(s) of these data would be helpful. Were data from all states collected and compiled using consistent protocols to enable apples-to-apples comparison of states? I'm initially skeptical of the patterns shown in the first map. For example, Vermont (w…
Another vote for a color legend on the map, please. Also, more information about the source(s) of these data would be helpful. Were data from all states collected and compiled using consistent protocols to enable apples-to-apples comparison of states? I'm initially skeptical of the patterns shown in the first map. For example, Vermont (where I live) seems to be in the highest COVID death rate category (assuming my guess as to the rankings of the colors is correct). This would be surprising, as VT has had one of the lowest rates throughout the pandemic, and (as shown in the second map) VT has one of the highest rates of vaccination (as has been true since vaccines became available). We've had data for a long time now indicating that "The higher the state vaccination rate, the lower the state death rate." So there's something fishy about the death rate for VT in map #1, which makes me wonder about how reliable/comparable the data are from all states.
The map is deaths for the last 3 months, and since vaccines rolled out 6 ish weeks ago, take 2-3 weeks to work, and wane quickly, it’s too big a stretch for anyone to use this chart to correlate covid deaths with vaccine status.
Another vote for a color legend on the map, please. Also, more information about the source(s) of these data would be helpful. Were data from all states collected and compiled using consistent protocols to enable apples-to-apples comparison of states? I'm initially skeptical of the patterns shown in the first map. For example, Vermont (where I live) seems to be in the highest COVID death rate category (assuming my guess as to the rankings of the colors is correct). This would be surprising, as VT has had one of the lowest rates throughout the pandemic, and (as shown in the second map) VT has one of the highest rates of vaccination (as has been true since vaccines became available). We've had data for a long time now indicating that "The higher the state vaccination rate, the lower the state death rate." So there's something fishy about the death rate for VT in map #1, which makes me wonder about how reliable/comparable the data are from all states.
The map is deaths for the last 3 months, and since vaccines rolled out 6 ish weeks ago, take 2-3 weeks to work, and wane quickly, it’s too big a stretch for anyone to use this chart to correlate covid deaths with vaccine status.