What City Observatory this week 1. Regional Patterns of Covid-19 Incidence. The pandemic has struck every corner of the nation, but has clearly hit some areas harder than others. We’ve focused on those metro areas, like New Orleans and New…
Reported case data correlate strongly with Covid-19 deaths, and provide a reasonable basis for assessing the geographic pattern of the pandemic across US metro areas. A critical question in judging the state of the Covid-19 pandemic is understanding how many…
Originally published April 12; Revised and Corrected April 14 The Covid-19 pandemic is hitting two regions in the US much harder than others: The NE Corridor and the Great Lakes Metro areas in these regions have the highest rates of…
What City Observatory this week 1. What cities are showing us about the progression of the Covid-19 pandemic. In an important sense, each large US metro area is a separate test case of the path of the Covid-19 virus. By…
REVISED April 18; Data through April 17, 2020 Among the 53 metro areas with a million or more population: New York, New Orleans, Detroit, Boston and Philadelphia have the highest incidence of pandemic among large metros. The rate of growth…