thedudeabides
SILVER
By the way @dad4
Food for thought.
From https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ who everything thinks is legit. If you look at state by state...scroll all the way to the right. It gives projections through Jan 1.
For Cal 49k deaths projected. For AZ 8700
If you calculate based on deaths per million they are projected to be about the same.
If you end up at the same rate, but one state has not allowed school, severely limited biz, sports, etc....one can rightly ask...what was the point of doing it in the first place?
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You are correct, IF those projections do come out close to their predictive values, then the death rates would be almost the same for Arizona vs California. However, California has more than 4 times the population density than Arizona. An extreme example would be to say if North Dakota can open up why can't California? It's night and day. It's a big reason why things got out of hand so quickly in New York and why there were so many deaths. The initial dose load that spreads through a highly dense population matters a lot for infection rate and more importantly the severity of the disease.