![Use a funnel plot to visualize rates: The case fatality rate for COVID-19 in North Carolina counties](https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/files/2020/04/casefatailtyNC-640x336.png)
Death is always a difficult topic to discuss, and death has been in the news a lot during this tragic coronavirus pandemic. Many news stories focus on states, counties, or cities that have the most cases or the most deaths. A related statistic is the case fatality rate, which is