Graphs day 101, pandemic day 108, day 178 since the first cases were diagnosed. I had a Cunning Plan to show you updated figures from every U.S. state, sorted into logical groupings and displayed in glorious multicolor detail. But then Corona Data Scraper didn’t put out an update today.

Total cases of COVID-19 diagnosed worldwide: 9,581,803

Total deaths: 489,182

Instead, here’s an entirely different way of visualizing COVID-19 data, one I hope you will find both simple and striking.

The table below is a memorial to the Americans who died on six consecutive Sundays, from Sunday, March 1st to Sunday, April 5th. Each death is marked with a simple black flag emoji. (I could have used crosses, especially since we’re talking about death on Sunday, but I wanted to keep it both secular and vexillogical.)

One row of the table, one Sunday in America.

One death, one black flag.

This is what “exponential growth” looks like.

Update tomorrow, and every day after that until this pandemic comes to an end or I am driven insane.