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durablend

(7,460 posts) Mon Mar 23, 2020, 11:12 PM Mar 2020

NY cases up another 2300+ (26 more dead)

No doubt not climbing fast enough for Twittler

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NY cases up another 2300+ (26 more dead) (Original Post) durablend Mar 2020 OP

On any given weekday, the daytime population John Fante Mar 2020 #1

Half the confirmed cases, Igel Mar 2020 #2

John Fante

(3,479 posts)

1. On any given weekday, the daytime population

Reply to durablend (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2020, 11:24 PM

Mar 2020

in Manhatten swells to three million. That's 130,000 people per sq mile.

I'm afraid that our greatest city is about to get bodyslammed by this virus. I'm heartbroken.

Igel

(35,317 posts)

2. Half the confirmed cases,

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Mon Mar 23, 2020, 11:25 PM

Mar 2020

which we can chalk up, in a pinch, to disproportionate testing.

But 30% of the deaths at 6% of the population ...

And it's even more skewed if you look at the NYC megalopolis instead of dividing the deaths across state boundaries and averaging each cluster in with the lower-risk population in each state.

It's like Illinois or even Tx. Illinois' clusters near the urban complex with Chicago at its center; Tx may only have 9 deaths, but 5 are in/around Dallas/Ft. Worth while Houston/Harris/Ft. Bend has 1.

Can't run an unitary analysis on the US with that kind of distinction.

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