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Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2022

Did the CDC change a COVID-19 map ahead of the State of the Union address to make it look better for Biden?

Ed Payne, Lead Stories
no

The maps in question illustrate different aspects of the pandemic and use different color schemes to do so. One is not an update of the other.

The first map is from the CDC's COVID Data Tracker and shows the level of community transmission across the U.S. on a county-by-county basis. It says nothing about the severity of those cases or how they're impacting local health systems.

The second map is the CDC's COVID-19 Community Levels by County Map, which is a "measure of the impact of COVID-19 illness on health and healthcare systems" in the U.S.

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