Making Sense of Trinidad's Coronavirus Numbers
Across the city, the number of new positive coronavirus cases is almost as high as the previous peak in May. The city has put out a large amount of data, which you can view in a dashboard or in its raw form on a spreadsheet. But neither is as clear and comprehensible as DCCovid.com, a unofficial website created by a resident that combines the coronavirus data with census data.
Trinidad, in the coronavirus data, includes all of ANC 5D and a little bit more above Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Importantly, the combined neighborhood's rankings vary widely depending on how you organize it. For example, Trinidad (and Ivy City, Gallaudet, Union Market and Carver-Langston) has the seventh highest number of positive cases of coronavirus amongst D.C. neighborhoods.
Trinidad, in the coronavirus data, includes all of ANC 5D and a little bit more above Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Importantly, the combined neighborhood's rankings vary widely depending on how you organize it. For example, Trinidad (and Ivy City, Gallaudet, Union Market and Carver-Langston) has the seventh highest number of positive cases of coronavirus amongst D.C. neighborhoods.
But those numbers are cumulative totals since the beginning of the pandemic. Organized another way, Trinidad is not amongst the neighborhoods with the highest increases in cases since the current spike began in September.
And not all neighborhoods have the same number of residents. The “neighborhood” boundaries are based on census tracts, which aim to divide the city’s population equally, but some are bound to be larger than others or can seem arbitrarily drawn. But thanks to DCCovid.com’s use of census data, we can see that across a 7-Day average, the Trinidad neighborhood zone only has 2.6 new positives per 10,000 Residents, compared to 2.4 district-wide.
D.C. remains on the lower end of the spectrum of coronavirus spread within the United States, but certain reopening metrics are changing for the worse as we head into the winter.
These neighborhoods saw the sharpest increases in new cases (excluding areas with fewer than 100 confirmed infections to date) pic.twitter.com/Sge0mI6LUv
— Fenit Nirappil (@FenitN) November 20, 2020
And not all neighborhoods have the same number of residents. The “neighborhood” boundaries are based on census tracts, which aim to divide the city’s population equally, but some are bound to be larger than others or can seem arbitrarily drawn. But thanks to DCCovid.com’s use of census data, we can see that across a 7-Day average, the Trinidad neighborhood zone only has 2.6 new positives per 10,000 Residents, compared to 2.4 district-wide.
D.C. remains on the lower end of the spectrum of coronavirus spread within the United States, but certain reopening metrics are changing for the worse as we head into the winter.
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