Option for infection rate per 100K population?

[toddr]

I was looking at US states today and realized that while Texas is WAY ahead of Tennessee, by percentage of population, it is not. It feels like the Y axis should be based on "New Confirmed cases Relative to population" which would make it easier to compare the infection rate between states.

I realize there might be side effects to this approach so I thought I would bring this up and see if it had been suggested/considered already?

[TXNightSky]

I'm a Texas too and would like this, but I think it should have both axis's with an option to be correlated against population. I agree that earlier on this might have created misleading information, but I believe that now it would be useful as a significantly high percentage of the population has been infected. This would help to determine if there is a correlation of the infection rate drop to the percent of infected. This, with an understanding of how and when states or countries have implemented actions to curb the spread could be very useful in my eyes.

[tsayles]

The actual code changes should be pretty simple. The harder part might be finding the population data in a public and easily accessible format. Got sourcing ideas? Post them here.

[toddr]

How about state numbers from here? https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2010s-state-total.html#par_textimage_1574439295