Look, Ma, No Purple!
Apr. 28th, 2021 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerI've skipped the past few weeks of posting updates of California's Covid-19 charts. The picture has changed only incrementally, though with gradual improvement, since my April 6 update. After 3 weeks of gradual change, though, something big has happened. No more purple!
[See full report at https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/]
That's right, all 58 counties in California are now out of the purple tier, the highest Covid-19 threat assessment. Only 11.6% of the state population live in counties at the next-worst red tier; three weeks ago 20.5% were at red or purple. And today 88% are at orange, up from 80.5% three weeks ago.
BTW, when I shared these charts— which I adapt from official, public charts available at https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/ and other state sites— with coworkers a few weeks ago, they gasped at the amount of detail. I discovered that most or all other states do not have this level of public data & communication. Especially the states most notorious for removing restrictions the soonest basically said, "Yup, it's safe now; we checked. Share the data? No, that's a state secret. Trust us."
[See full report at https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/]
That's right, all 58 counties in California are now out of the purple tier, the highest Covid-19 threat assessment. Only 11.6% of the state population live in counties at the next-worst red tier; three weeks ago 20.5% were at red or purple. And today 88% are at orange, up from 80.5% three weeks ago.
BTW, when I shared these charts— which I adapt from official, public charts available at https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/ and other state sites— with coworkers a few weeks ago, they gasped at the amount of detail. I discovered that most or all other states do not have this level of public data & communication. Especially the states most notorious for removing restrictions the soonest basically said, "Yup, it's safe now; we checked. Share the data? No, that's a state secret. Trust us."
