Covid-19 Infection for US Counties

Instead of looking at the largest death tolls that would bias analysis to large urban communities, we instead look at those counties with the largest relative infection energy increases from the preceding five days. We use the deaths data from The New York Times, based on reports from state and local health agencies.

Greatest US County Hot Spots

Below, we list all US counties with changing infection relative energies that have a slope greater than 1 (energies going up with an angle greater than 45 degrees). In order, from greatest slope to least, as of reporting day 12/14/2020: