Map to show which counties are "hot spots" for case growth in the past week #52
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Matt - Our team asked about adding info to flag which counties have shown higher than average case growth in the past week. Maybe something like other maps on the 2036 website. For May 5-May 12, Texas overall case growth was about 23%. There are 41 counties whose case growth was more than double that amount (46% growth in a week) and of those, 15 counties had fewer than 5 cases on 5/12. Maybe a map that shows these “hot spots” for the prior week, but with a distinction between counties with 5+ cases vs. fewer than? (Another option – look at this in combination with total cases per 100K. There could be two maps – one with last week’s growth, and one that shows cases per capita. Some of these high growth counties for the past week are still below the state’s average # cases/1000.)
