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Re:Excess Deaths in 2020 by melling on Thursday April 29, 2021 @02:19PM (#26984525)
How much other causation have you looked into? For example population density?

Miami is a small city of 500,000 people.

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Re:Excess Deaths in 2020 by floxy on Thursday April 29, 2021 @02:39PM (#26984793)
The Miami metropolitan area population is 6,000,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_statistic...

...with a density of 1004 people / sq. mi., compared to the NY metro area with a density of 5313 people / sq. mi..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_metropolitan_area

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area#com...

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Re:Excess Deaths in 2020 by melling on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:46PM (#26986485)
Yes, NY is clearly is densely populated. I guess I would look for the differences with California.

LA has more people (13.2 million) but appears to be less densely populated with 550 people per sq mile.

I didn’t follow California but I know Florida was offered as a place that not locking down worked.

I can look into it a little more. Florida has a lot of cases, and most came after the first wave. The same with Texas.

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