The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in numerous deaths in the United States. Each state managed the pandemic in its own unique way and the results were not consistent from state-to-state. This project will create a choropleth map of the USA and display each State's COVID-19 Crude Death Rate. The crude death rate is a ratio between the number of deaths and the State's population.
The main dataset used in this assignment was obtained from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a collection of COVID-19 deaths as reported to the NCHS by sex, age, group, and jurisdiction of occurrence. The dataset can be downloaded from Provisional COVID-19 Deaths by Sex and Age. In addition, I used estimated U.S. State population statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau that was accessed on 2024-FEB-26 from Population Estimates, Population Change, and Components of Change. The State abbreviation dataset was manually created from internet sources.