Comparing confirmed coronavirus cases in New York to France.
New York recorded its first confirmed coronavirus case on March 2nd. Since then, the number of cases in NY has ballooned to more confirmed cases than all of France.
France saw its first confirmed coronavirus case fairly early on January 24th. It took only 22 days for New York to grow to the same number of cases as France did in 60 days.
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Visualizing confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths in New York versus France.
The visualization above shows how the number of confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths in New York compare to all of France for the past month.
You can see that while France starts off with more cases early on, New York rapidly grows in the number of cases in the past week.
Comparing confirmed coronavirus case growth in New York to France.
The above figure shows that while France started growing in its number of confirmed cases much easier than New York, since then New York has more than surpasses France.
Likely, we will see each continue on their current trajectory until the full effects of the France and New York shutdowns is played out in slowing the virus growth.
Comparing New York versus France's deaths from coronavirus.
Looking at the picture of total deaths associated with coronavirus in New York versus France shows that thus far New York has had a lower mortality rate.
New York has a current mortality of 0.73% compared to 3.99% in France. One thing to keep in mind is that since New York’s cases have grown so rapidly recently there is potential that the death rate has not caught up yet as there would naturally be a lag in confirmed cases vs. death rate.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order to put a “PAUSE” on New York in an effort to slow the virus’s growth in the state. Given the shut down just began, we will likely continue to see a rapid increase in cases as there is an incubation period of up to 14 days until symptoms begin. New York may continue on pace for the next week or two until the shut down begins to have an effect on the number of cases.
Thanks for Aimee Prudhomme with Tableau for her help with data visualization. All data was sourced from Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
