There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic

Re:There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the... by dragonwriter on Monday May 17, 2021 @12:44AM (#27180118)

> Still, the vast majority of cases in California have been in the metropolitan areas that have also had the strongest restrictions.

So are the vast majority of people, and greater population density makes it harder to control the spread of communicable disease. So you’d expect, all other things being equal, not only thr vast majority of cases but the highest per capita cases to be in the metro areas.

But, actually, the highest per capita infections (both total and current) were mostly in rural, not metropolitan, counties.

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Re:There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the... by indecisive_user on Monday May 17, 2021 @02:04AM (#27180482)

>the highest per capita infections (both total and current) were mostly in rural, not metropolitan, counties.

Can you please cite your sources for this claim? I just did the math using the numbers of infections[0] and the county populations[1] and it doesn't really seem to match up with your claim at all.

There are 58 counties in California.

San Bernardino, LA, and Riverside counties are numbers 4, 5, 6 respectively for highest cases per capita and all have populations above 2.2 million.

Of the bottom 10 counties in cases per capita, only 2 have a population larger than 100k (SF, Humboldt)

[0] https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spr...

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-counties/states/ca

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