{"id":1790286,"date":"2021-03-02T20:53:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T01:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1790286"},"modified":"2021-03-02T20:53:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T01:53:59","slug":"mapping-500000-lives-lost-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/03\/mapping-500000-lives-lost-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping 500,000 Lives Lost to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1790294\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1790294\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/specials\/covid-500-000-lives-lost-map\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1790294\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/03\/mapping-500000-lives-lost-to-covid-19\/nbc-covid-500k-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nbc-covid-500k-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1540,835\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nbc-covid-500k-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nbc-covid-500k-2-300x163.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nbc-covid-500k-2-1024x555.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1790294 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nbc-covid-500k-2-1024x555.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of NBC News interactive map showing 500,000 COVID-19 deaths in the United States, focusing on Chicago.\" width=\"760\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nbc-covid-500k-2-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nbc-covid-500k-2-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nbc-covid-500k-2-150x81.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nbc-covid-500k-2-1536x833.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nbc-covid-500k-2-940x510.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nbc-covid-500k-2-738x400.jpg 738w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nbc-covid-500k-2.jpg 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1790294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NBC News (screenshot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On February 21 the U.S. reached a grim milestone: half a million deaths due to COVID-19. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/specials\/covid-500-000-lives-lost-map\/index.html\">This NBC News interactive map<\/a> visualizes the scale of this tragedy with a county-by-county dot map of those deaths, and offers narrative detail in certain places. [<a href=\"http:\/\/googlemapsmania.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/a-dot-map-of-half-million-covid-deaths.html\">Maps Mania<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 21 the U.S. reached a grim milestone: half a million deaths due to COVID-19. This NBC News interactive map visualizes the scale of this tragedy with a county-by-county dot map of those deaths,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/03\/mapping-500000-lives-lost-to-covid-19\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[1413,1426,228,1445,158],"class_list":["post-1790286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-health","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-disease","tag-pandemics","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1790029,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/01\/covid-19-in-the-united-states-a-map-roundup\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790286,"position":0},"title":"COVID-19 in the United States: A Map Roundup","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 January 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"The New York Times maps the risk of getting COVID-19 in the United States on a county-by-county basis (previously: Mapping COVID-19 Exposure Risk at Events). 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One of the map\u2019s creators, John Nelson, explains all in this video.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/health\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"CovidPulse (screenshot)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/covidpulse-1024x576.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/covidpulse-1024x576.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/covidpulse-1024x576.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/covidpulse-1024x576.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1789006,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/07\/a-county-by-county-covid-19-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790286,"position":2},"title":"A County-by-County COVID-19 Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 July 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"COVD-19 is hitting the United States very hard right now. 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