Table 1 Descriptive statistics on the New York Times data set.

From: CovidCounties is an interactive real time tracker of the COVID19 pandemic at the level of US counties

New York Times

% of counties with non-missing data†

99.4%

 

States with greatest % of counties reporting

40 states tied at 100%*

 

States with lowest % of counties reporting

Hawaii (80.0%-4/5)

Alaska (89.7%-26/29)

States with highest % of unknown cases

Rhode Island (8.3%; 1,738; 1,644)

Wisconsin (6.2%; 4,534; 780)

Counties with highest cases per million

Trousdale, Tennessee (144,297)

Lafayette, Florida (129.295)

Counties with the fastest doubling times

Dawes, Nebraska (1.57 days)

Sanders, Montana (2.46 days)

Counties with highest estimated ICU needs

Madera, California (200%-20/10)

Rosebud, Montana (184%-1.84/1)

  1. Data reported as of 8/20/2020. States with highest % of unknown cases shows the percent of cases from unknown counties as a fraction of total cases in the state, the absolute number of cases from unknown counties in the state, and the cases per million from unknown counties in the state. States with lowest % of counties reporting shows the percentage of counties reporting, the number of counties reporting, and total counties in the state.
  2. †In the NY Times data all counties that reported cases also reported deaths (or were assumed to be 0).
  3. *AL, AZ, AR, CA, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KY LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY.
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