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Re:Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’... by spking on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:00PM (#22988842)
Basically, yes (technically it's #6): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
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Re:Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’... by hsitz on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:09PM (#22988905)
Yeah, but the truth is in what you don't say. The top 8 density areas were all NYC metro area, all of them small small population cities (<70k) except for NYC at #6 with over 8,000,000 population!
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Re:Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’... by pkulak on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:04PM (#22988874)
And the 5 above it are the same metro area.
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Re:Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’... by yellowstuff on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:17PM (#22988968)
I think for various reasons that population density metric does a bad job of capturing density as a metric relevant to infectious diseases. The percent of the population that uses public transportation is a probably a more relevant metric, and in NYC that might be over 100%, since so many non-residents use it.
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