Here’s a visualization of COVID19 average daily death rates compared to US wars. Approximately 866 Americans have died each day during the pandemic from COVID19, eclipsing the American Civil War’s average daily death rate of 449.
From a data presentation perspective, the use of normalized rates is very powerful in conveying statistics. Other methods like embedding a small bar chart within a table is quite effective at showing the relative magnitude of the column being sorted.
UPDATE
As of April 2021, the daily average COVID deaths has jumped dramatically. Perhaps as the vaccine rollout continues this average will come back down.
UPDATE
As of March 2022, the daily average of COVID-19 deaths in the United States has held steady. Though with the passing omicron wave, perhaps we have transitioned from pandemic to endemic.
