I think to non-scientists, or at least people who don't work with log scales, the use of linear scales makes the graph easier to understand. While I wouldn't expect to see this in Nature, this article reads like it is…
Doesn't this data need to be normalized per-capita? It looks like it is just number of cases, and that doesn't get you a comparable. US population is about 5 times that of Italy.
I think to non-scientists, or at least people who don't work with log scales, the use of linear scales makes the graph easier to understand. While I wouldn't expect to see this in Nature, this article reads like it is…
Doesn't this data need to be normalized per-capita? It looks like it is just number of cases, and that doesn't get you a comparable. US population is about 5 times that of Italy.