Weekly Update: How #COVID19 has spread across every U.S. state & territory per capita over time

A picture is worth 1,000 words and all that.

I've done my best to label every state/territory, which obviously isn't easy to do for most of them given how tangled it gets in the middle. For cases per capita, the most obvious point is that New York and New Jersey, which towered over every other state last spring, are now utterly dwarfed by North & South Dakota, although things are getting pretty horrible everywhere now.

North Dakota has broken 12.5% of the entire population having tested positive, or over 1 out of every 8 residents.

South Dakota is up to 11.9%, or more than 1 out of every 9 residents.

Utah, Tennessee, Rhode Island and Iowa are on the verge of passing 1 out of every 10 residents.

34 states have seen at least 1 out of every 15 residents test positive.

Next, let's look at the cumulative mortality rate for every U.S. state and territory. Here, New Jersey and New York are still far worse than the rest of the country (primarily due to their mass deaths from March - May this past spring)...but as you can see, several other states are, tragically, also catching up to them on this front as well.

COVID-19 has killed more than 1 out of every 440 New Jersey residents and 1 out of every 480 New Yorkers.

It's killed more than 1 out of 600 residents of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, North & South Dakota, Mississippi & Louisiana.

It's killed at least 1 out of every 700 residents of Illinois, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

It's killed at least 1 out of every 1,000 residents of 31 states.