Question

In the graph given below we get a shocking picture of deaths in the USA due to Corona
Virus that showed a constant upward trend in the month of April 2020. Write an analytic
paragraph describing the general trend and other details after analysing the graph.​

Answer 1

Question

In the graph given below we get a shocking picture of deaths in the USA due to Corona

Virus that showed a constant upward trend in the month of April 2020. Write an analytic

paragraph describing the general trend and other details after analysing the graph.​

Answer

Almost as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic began, graphs and many other visualisations charting the rise of the virus started to multiply. Many show the cumulative number of deaths attributed to the virus. This number, of course, will always rise, but will also – eventually – plateau. A cumulative total can never fall.

Other published graphs have shown the number of deaths reported each day for various countries. These are more useful, but the reader is still left trying to discern the extent to which the rise from one day to the next is larger or smaller.

The graph below is different. It shows both the number of deaths each day and the rate of change in that number. Most importantly, it uses smoothed data – a moving average from the day before to the day after each date shown. This method of showing change is explored in my forthcoming book, Slowdown, which I worked on with illustrator Kirsten McClure who turned my crude Excel graphs into clearer visuals. It’s a useful way to look at data when it is change that is of the greatest interest.

The first graph (below) shows the rise in mortality in seven countries up until Thursday, April 2, 2020. At that point, the number of deaths was still rising every day in the US, France and the UK. The increases in mortality had begun to slow in Spain and Italy. Germany and China were reporting far lower numbers of deaths.

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Mortality in seven countries attributed to COVID-19 (January 23 to April 2, 2020).

Danny Dorling/Kirsten McClure, Author provided

The picture began to change very markedly on Friday, April 3 and Saturday, April 4. As the graph below shows, the number of deaths in the US stayed the same (when smoothed). France was now reporting falling mortality, as was Spain and Italy. So too, for the first time, was the UK. The three-day smoothed daily number of deaths in Germany was also now falling. The graph is worth interpreting in the light of when the various national lockdowns began.

Mortality in seven countries attributed to COVID-19 (January 23 to April 4, 2020).

Answer 2

Answer:

Almost as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic began, graphs and many other visualisations charting the rise of the virus started to multiply. Many show the cumulative number of deaths attributed to the virus. This number, of course, will always rise, but will also – eventually – plateau. A cumulative total can never fall.

Explanation:

1. The first graph (below) shows the rise in mortality in seven countries up until Thursday, April 2, 2020. At that point, the number of deaths was still rising every day in the US, France and the UK. The increases in mortality had begun to slow in Spain and Italy. Germany and China were reporting far lower numbers of deaths.2,108 people died in the past 24 hours while there are now more than half a million confirmed infections.
3. The US could soon surpass Italy as the country with the most coronavirus deaths worldwide.
5. But experts on the White House Covid-19 task force say the outbreak is starting to level off across the US.