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Re:Data Shows Shelter-in-Place Is Ending, Whether Government... by joshuamorton on Saturday May 02, 2020 @10:09PM (#23056335)
The other bit is that west coast cities responded earlier. Seattle got hot early but locked down pretty hard, SF locked down before it got bad, and both locked down well before nyc.
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Re:Data Shows Shelter-in-Place Is Ending, Whether Government... by perl4ever on Saturday May 02, 2020 @10:10PM (#23056342)
It seems like there is a surge in California now though.
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Re:Data Shows Shelter-in-Place Is Ending, Whether Government... by taeric on Saturday May 02, 2020 @10:58PM (#23056568)
With how skewed this is to older population, it really is tough to just look at populations as a whole. NYC had more people over sixty than Seattle has people.

It is odd. This is far far more dangerous than a flu if you are older than sixty. More than just looking at population level IFR implies. Not so clear cut off you are under sixty. Simply put, we don't have the data to say.

I fully agree that we don't want the data the hard way.

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