Trollminator wrote:
change of direction.... wrote:
Those two facts point in opposite directions on this issue... plus the population is pretty dense in LA... less so than NYC though...
The issue seems so odd... so many more deaths in NY percentage wise... again, I thought it was due to timeline issues but that doesn't appear to be the case unless NY got the virus much earlier than west coast... which I suppose is possible.
Surely the virus is not killing more New Yorkers on a percentage basis... it is obvious there has been very little testing. 15k deaths is 2% of 750k, which is likely a good approximation of the total infections in NY - on a 2-week gap of course. There are a whole bunch of factors that will affect spread differently depending on the city. IMO the only reasonable comparison to highlight the intensity of the problem is the number of deaths per capita.
Read my original post... that's what I did... compare deaths per capita between NY & WA. That was the basis for the entire question... seems odd that NY would be 30 times the deaths and only 2.5 times the population.