London vs New York City Update

Please find below the latest update of the Covid-19 infection trajectory comparing London with New York. Please treat the most recent data points with caution -  the number of new cases reported per day are usually revised upwards over time, so may change. I do remove the most recent data points from this analysis anyway, but changes to data points 10-14 days prior do still occur.

We can clearly see that both cities are now over the worst of the Covid-19 infection cases and we see a lower rate of infections per 100K of the population (y axis) and a steady reduction in case growth (x axis) in recent weeks. The overall loading of the health services in New York City still appear to be running at approximately twice that of London, but overall hospitalised cases should be at a manageable level now. 

For those of you who prefer to view the data from left to right, please find the same chart as above, but with the x axis reversed, so the left is increasing growth and the right is declining growth. This layout has the advantage that the trajectory over time follows nicely from left to right, but the reversed x-axis takes some getting used to. 

Personally, I'm not sure which layout is better, but I'm open to feedback on the matter.