So I want to give a little explanation on percent change and you tell me which you prefer.
Percent change of New Cases (also known as daily cases) versus the Percent change of Total Confirmed cases.
Percent change of new cases is basically subtracting new cases today (July 4th) by the new cases from last week (Jun 27th). Using new cases will allow us to see a negative percent decrease from one week to another.
If I use total confirmed cases, then we will never see a percent decrease, but only a lower percentage increase if there isn't much change. For example, a 1% increase from confirmed cases only means that there hasn't been much of a change from last week.
However, a 2% increase from daily cases means that daily cases have gone up 2% from last week, but the very next we can see a negative percent decrease depending on the daily cases.
In other words, if I use new cases then Florida has a 209% increase from last week. If I use total confirmed cases, then Florida has a 51% increase from last week.
So, which do you all think is more meaningful? Seeing the daily cases differences from week to week or the total confirmed case differences from week to week?
There is no wrong answer here.