c/dataisbeautiful · by Innerworld@lemmy.world · 92dU.S. hantavirus cases rose from 13 in 2022 to 38 in 2025, a 192% increase and a 6-year high, driven largely by western states 12 points · 7 comments · view on lemmy.world
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Sal@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 91d
What is the justification for selecting the range 2022 - 2025? I suspect that this is cherry picking.
One of the data sources they reference is: https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/data-research/cases/index.html, this site has data up to 2023 (I could not find 2024 - 2025). Here is the plot of the total hantavirus cases in the US vs year:
The number of cases vs year is rather noisy, and 2022 was a particularly low year. Saying that there is a '192% increase' might be technically true but misleading.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 91d
Not in the least since it's not the Andes variant that's in the news.
This is just clickbait.
adj@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 92d
Innerworld@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 92d
What's this?
adj@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 92d
Just commenting on how hard it is to distinguish some of the colors.
Using the eye dropper browser tool to check the line against the legend.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 1 pts · 91d
California and West Virginia are the same colour.
Innerworld@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 92d
Good point