Understanding the spread, distribution, and deadliness of COVID-19 is difficult, despite the data available about it. Differences in rates of testing, quality of data, demographics, etc. make it difficult to compare data between countries.
All this needs to be considered when looking at the plots below. But despite those caveats, I found it helpful to plot the raw data, even though direct comparisons between countries might not be inaccurate.
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``` python
data_ts=jhu_df.date.iloc[-1].strftime("%b %d %Y")
display(HTML(f"<em>Data up to {data_ts}; countries with {nthresh} or more confirmed cases.</em>"))
```
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## How are cases per 100,000 distributed geographically?