The delta variant is still surging across America, resulting in some steep rises in COVID-19 infections for select counties. Other areas, however, are thankfully seeing decreases in COVID-19 infections. But what about where you live? Are COVID-19 cases rising or falling? There’s a cool new map out from Esri, the geographic information system and mapping software company called Which Way Are Things Going? that shows the week to week changes in active COVID-19 cases across the country. The map’s data is based on COVID-19 data from Johns Hopkins.
In other words: big upwards purple arrows are bad. Small downwards orange arrows are good.
Further clicking an arrow gives you more detailed stats on a per-county basis. The interactive map also provides a best and worst counties list that is worth checking out. Currently, the map’s data includes cases in the United States up to August 22. But unfortunately for large parts of the country, things appear to be heading in the wrong direction. Many parts of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky have large upwards purple arrows, meaning counties in those areas are seeing a strongly worsening number of COVID-19 cases.