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by dwaltrip 2245 days ago
For a better comparison, I think you need to look at deaths per capita.

The US is somewhere in the middle of the pack on this metric.

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That doesn’t capture what’s important. There are plenty of places that could probably have never closed and not had any real spike in infections. It’s places where people live densely that are at the greatest risk. The Bay Area in particular probably isn’t at the top of that list, but it is still a higher risk area. Really we just need more testing, and randomized testing. I think we would all be able to move forward more intelligently if we had data.