My pet peeve with nearly all maps showing this data is that they are on geographical maps. A virus spread is only a weakly geographical phenomenon - most infect

My pet peeve with nearly all maps showing this data is that they are on geographical maps. A virus spread is only a weakly geographical phenomenon - most infections happen through human-to-human contact so it makes more sense to show on a population-weighted cartogram. Has anyone made a map like that? A great example is the 538 hexagonal-tile electoral college map: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/ https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/ or one of these population-weighted projections of different areas: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8284655.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8284655.stm