Chapter 7 Conclusion

Using the data sources about Covid-19 cases in the US and hospital capacity & Covid-19 patient impact, we gained insights about the trend of the pandemic in the US, the relationships between hospital capacity and death rates of Covid-19, differences between the impacts on adult & pediatric patients. The interactive plot by d3 enables us to compare the trend of death rates in different states and the entire US.

The work we have done is only the first step to get the whole picture of the pandemic in the US. The limitations and the future directions of our work are as follows:

  • Although the trend of Covid-19 in the US is clearly shown in the plots, we only know little about the factors that affect on the situations. Given the Covid-19 cases & death rates shown in all US states, we are curious about the impact of the population size, economic status, medical resources of different states on the change in the situation. Therefore, we would like to collect more data and compare the conditions of some states suffering effects to a different extent due to Covid-19.

  • The relationships between the hospital capacity and death rates of Covid-19 inspire us about the importance of public medical resources. The spread-out of Covid-19 in the US leads to insufficiency of patient beds and other resources in many states. To help control the pandemic in the states with high death rates and rapidly increasing new cases, we could explore the differences between the health policies & rules of these states and others in the future.

  • In the plot of confirmed cases of adult & pediatric patients, the difference in both groups’ impact is not so evident since the numbers of cases in both groups are incredibly imbalanced. Therefore, we will compare the growth rates and death rates in the two groups in the future. Besides, to get more insights into the impact of Covid-19 on people of different ages, we will find more data about the Covid-19 cases by age.

The plots in the report help us learn more about the trend of Covid-19 in the US and its impact on the public. To study more about the pandemic in the US, we need more statistical tools to find out the factors that are crucial to the break-out Covid-19 cases in different states.