For better or worse, germany is good at administering and recording things. This is the covid19 dashboard maintained by the RKI, the german equivalent of the NIH National Institute for Allergy and Infectious disease:
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/478220a4c454480e823b17327b2bf1d4
It is implemented in arcgis. There is a clear pathway how the data is reported daily from the county health departments to the state and from there to RKI. The data collected and verified throughout the day gets released at midnight. As every resident is 'registered' to a specific address, the underlying spatial data is also fairly valid. The data in the map is reported in a per 100k population format which is the number that matters. Oh, and they use a calming blue for the graphics rather than the garish 'red circles' on the Hopkins page.
On the state level data, the industrial states with a high degree of international connectivity are the ones with the highest per-capita case numbers. No big suprise here. The lowest numbers are in the rural stretches of what was formerly east germany.
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The reassuring part is that if you look at the big 'dark blue' states Bayern, Baden Wuertemberg, Nordrhein Westfalen (you have to click them in the list, not the map), it appears that all of them have hit the downslope of the initial 'hump'. Now at midnight, monday, the weekend numbers become visible, we'll see whether that downslope continues. If it does, it would be a pretty good sign. Another interesting observation is the age distribution. The bulk of the cases are in the age bracket from 15-59 with only small numbers in the >80 bracket. That, in addition to a fairly expansive testing policy, probably accounts for the low reported case fatality rate. Whatever they did to keep the disease out of the nursing homes appears to have worked.
For anyone familiar with the geography, this is the data broken down to the county and independent city level:
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/478220a4c454480e823b17327b2bf1d4/page/page_1/
Some interesting data on that more granular level. The city of Munich got hit hard, but then it has close historic ties with northern italy, so no big suprise there. Frankfurt, the center of banking and site of the largest airport otoh has very few cases. Same with Berlin. Both of those seem a bit unusual. Some oddball outliers in out of the way rural counties (probably family clusters that show up due to overall low county populations).
