COVID deaths: San Francisco County and South Dakota have roughly the same population...

[IcyPeas]

This comparison is very interesting.

Paul Krugman@paulkrugman
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Jul 12, 2021
I saw someone mention this, and had to check it out. San Francisco County and South Dakota have roughly the same population; SF has had 559 total Covid deaths, SD 2039 1/

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[dsc]

1. and it is worse than the numbers suggest

SF is vastly more densely populated (only the 4 boroughs of NYC that aren't Staten Island are more densely populated than SF county) while SD is the 46th most densely populated state (Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, and ND are the only ones less densely populated) SF has a higher median age 38.2 vs 37. In short, SD should have done vastly better than SF in terms of Covid. Instead, SD did over 3 times worse.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. And the population density of SD is incredibly lower, let me just mention ...

And lower density SHOULD mean, all else being equal ... a lower death rate from a contagious disease.

But ... all things are far from equal, obviously.

[Rhiannon12866]

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