Make a map of the cases per 100K that has lines for each region instead of each county.

[bennek2]

We should make a map arguing that pause ny can be let up in upstate before NYC. Clearly the epidemic is much less severe upstate and the peaks will be much lower. Our results show this. But we can make the point even clearer by drawing a new plot.

The map would be like this one. But you would show a curve for each region, New york City and new york average.

To draw the map correctly, you need to get the the counts data, and the population data for a region, sum them each together, and then calculate the regional rates. Then draw the same map as we have only with less lines.