COVID-19 in Kansas: Masks vs. No-Masks

https://source.opennews.org/articles/comparison-four-major-covid-19-data-sources/ https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/covid-19-cases-summarized-by-age-group-and-gender https://aws.amazon.com/data-exchange/covid-19/?cards.sort-by=item.additionalFields.order&cards.sort-order=asc https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=covid-19+data+set+by+age&ia=web https://rt.live/ https://covidtracking.com/data/download

In 2020, some counties in Kansas adopted a mask requirement while others didn't. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment published a chart illustrating COVID-19 changes in masks vs. without counties.

Some people questioned whether this chart was misleading due to its use of different Y-axis. This repository produces a similar chart with a unified Y-axis and shows that the result was not misleading. Here is the chart I generated:

The source data is us-counties.csv from the covid-19-data set, collected by the New York Times based on government sources. The Johns Hopkins CSSE data set is also used to plot alternative versions of these charts.

I have many more graphs also available.

Invocation

To run, you must pass it the path to the NYT us-counties.csv file and the John Hopkins csse_covid_19_daily_reports directory. For instance:

git clone https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data
git clone https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
git clone https://github.com/jgoerzen/covid19ks
cd covid19ks
cargo run --release -- ../covid-19-data/us-counties.csv ../COVID-19/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_daily_reports

With these commands, you can verify these results for yourself. If you don't already have Rust installed, see the Rust installation page.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2019-2020 John Goerzen

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