COVID-19
The New Normal...
COVID - 19 TIMELINE
After the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, countries around the world experienced exponential growth in confirmed cases.
COVID-19 outbreaks in the United States in late March. On Mar. 26th, US has the most confirmed cases.
Social Media - Twitter
Top words during the pandemic
At the end of March...
In the middle of April...
At the beginning of May...
"Coronavirus" has been the top tweets for the last couple of months, indicating that the pandemic has been the hot topic for social media . The increasing size of the word "covid" in each wordcloud may also implies a growing concerning regarding with the issue.
Line Plot - Global Confirmed cases and log
The plots above show the cumulative confirmed COVID-19 cases, the dots represent the time point where the governments from the top 5 most-cases-countries imposed national lockdown/regional lockdown or advocated social distancing. From the log plot, we can see that roughly 2 weeks after the lockdown, most of the countries experienced decrease in confirmed cases, aka a flattened curve. Such evidence can imply that social distancing and regional lockdowns correlate with lower spreading of the virus.