It’s hard to present data in an insightful way. I always recommend that people check out the works of the statistician (and artist!) Edward Tufte (https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/) to learn more about how to do it. Graphs can be especially problematic because of how easily they can be used to mislead – even with no intention of misleading.
So it should come as no surprise that I am rarely happy with the graphs I see in the media. But I was surprised and so happy to watch this segment on Rachel Maddow. It was just about perfect in explaining why using a single graph that has daily death rates in the entire United States is so misleading, I really suggest you watch it.
And, after that, you can watch this segment, which should depress the &*^% out of you: