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. 2021 Nov 22;380(2214):20210122. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0122

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Figure 1. — The unequal impact of COVID-19. (a) The number of deaths (as of April 2020) has a heavy-tailed distribution for counties, states and nations, with the most cases in New York City, New York State and the USA, respectively. Inset: a stochastic model discussed in the main text qualitatively captures the properties of the distribution. (b) A similar pattern is seen for infections at many spatial scales: from US facilities to neighbourhoods to nations. (c) Deaths over time for New York state and select counties, where we see the disease initially grows at an approximately exponential rate and the disease arrives in counties at different times. (Online version in colour.)