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Chart: The coronavirus pandemic, state by state

In cases, deaths, and tests per capita, here’s how each US state’s coronavirus situation compares.

How you can keep thousands of people from getting coronavirus, in one GIF

“It’s not about you, it’s about everybody else.”

By Sigal Samuel Mar 26, 2020, 1:40pm EDT

If you think you don’t have a huge role to play in how thecoronavirus outbreak plays out, think again. You have the potential to make this pandemic so much worse.

That’s because the coronavirus is both more contagious and more deadly than the common flu. One person can easily transmit it to other people without knowing it, and those people would then transmit it to even more people, creating a terrifying snowball effect.

The good news is, just as you can easily transmit the virus to other people, you can easilyavoid transmitting it — if you’re willing to stay home. That’s right: Simply by sitting on your couch, you can potentially save lives.

To see why, check out the visualization below. It shows how one person with the coronavirus, who passes on the virus to three other people (some experts say three is the average, though others estimate the infectiousness is a bit lower), can very quickly spawn a public health nightmare that afflicts thousands of people. But it also shows how one person can mitigate that effect through social distancing. By avoiding the office, the barbecue, the airport, and so on, an individual can deprive the virus of the opportunity to infect more people.