Using rates for more relatable Covid-19 numbers

Many things get stuck in people’s bodies. This is the percentage breakdown for the most common objects that end up in the emergency room.

I wanted to see how daily patterns emerge at the individual level and how a person’s entire day plays out. So I simulated 1,000 of them.

In the 1950s, less than 10% of families with children were single-parent. In 2022, among families with children, 31% were single-parent — more than three times as common.

The day-to-day changes a lot when you have kids. However, it seems to change more for women than it does for men.