2020 has been dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic no matter where you live in the world. Using data from the Our World in Data and Covid Tracking Project APIs I compare where I currently live (on the Maryland side of the DC/Maryland border) with where I used to live (Ireland).
I control for population by presenting all metrics in terms of per million population. DC has suffered the most, its 881 deaths/million is more than double Ireland’s death rate which currently stands at 363 deaths/million.
Ireland effectively got its case numbers down to near zero from about mid June but there has been a slight rise in September. Meanwhile DC and Maryland never got below about 50 new cases/million/day and even saw a resurgence in case numbers in July but trended down again in August – thankfully the death rates have continued to decline since their peaks in late April and early May. Ireland’s deaths had a sharp drop off in early May. DC and Maryland peaked in deaths around the same time as Ireland but DC had a much higher peak and both DC and Maryland had a more gradual descent from their peak deaths resulting in a higher overall death count.
R code to create an interactive version of this graphic can be downloaded from my Google Drive.
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