This is your neighborhood. On Feb. 29, Washington state reported the United States’ first death from the novel coronavirus, a man who was 58 and lived in King County.

On this map, however, we simulate that one of your neighbors died instead.

A week later, on March 6, another 93 people had died of covid‑19 in the United States. Again, let’s pretend they lived in your neighborhood.

A month after that, by April 6, 12,823 people had died. Here’s how it would look if they lived in your neighborhood.

Today, after the first death was confirmed, the death toll reached at least in the whole country.

Let’s imagine that they all lived around you: Everyone in this circle would have died. It has a radius of , centered on your location.

If all deaths had happened in it would be enough to erase it from the map. No one would be left alive.

If all deaths had happened in your county, it would have been erased from the map. No one would be left alive.

According to 2018 estimates, around people live in . That is the total confirmed deaths in the country.

According to 2018 estimates, around people live in your county. That is the total confirmed deaths in the country.

Now let's see how far the devastation would spread if all deaths in the United States had happened around a place you may recognize: .

If all deaths had happened around , , the circle around it would have a radius of .

In real life, however, covid‑19 deaths aren’t clustered in a single place. Now the map shows where the people who died of covid‑19 in the United States actually resided.

Since these people were not around you, it may be hard for you to see the scale of these losses in your own daily life. But each one was a tragedy for those in their circle.

“When you know someone who has died, it can seem like a personal attack.”