Parallax View - part the seventeenth [update]

Another week's up, so here are today's numbers:

>= 1,000 - 322
100 to 999 - 1124

Grand total of counties reads at 3,065. Something happened the middle of last week, driving down the total counties and the distribution. For myself, I see the greedy little fingers of Thiel and Palantir.

[update]
The Topo folks offer this to explain the major shift in data.

Last week, we updated our maps to show county data for "active" cases rather than "confirmed" cases. This resulted in the number of cases per county going down because:

active = any case reported in the last 30 days; cases older than 30 days are considered recovered, or may have resulted in death, and thus are not counted as "active"; this is a representation of current COVID data in a county

confirmed = any case reported at any point in time, no matter how long ago; this is a good representation of total population exposure but not of the current risk level

Utah data, on topo's maps, is built from data that is published by the New York Times. The reason we do this is because Johns Hopkins does not report Utah data for all Utah counties.