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.

1 out of every 8 residents of North & South Dakota's entire populations have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past year.

Rhode Island is up to 1 out of every 9 residents.

Utah, Tennessee, Arizona, Iowa, Oklahoma and Arkansas are up to 1 out of every 10 residents.

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

EVERY state except New Hampshire, Washington, Oregon, Maine, Hawaii & Vermont (along with 4 U.S. territories) have now surpassed 1 out of every 20 residents having tested 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 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 406 New Jersey residents and 1 out of every 440 New Yorkers.

It's killed 1 out of every 500 residents of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Mississippi, South Dakota and Connecticut.

It's killed more than 1 out of 600 residents of Louisiana, Arizona, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Alabama, Illinois and Arkansas.

It's killed at least 1 out of every 700 residents of New Mexico, Iowa, Michigan, Tennessee, South Carolina and Nevada.

It's killed at least 1 out of every 1,000 residents of 36 states.