04-27-2020, 01:37 PM
(04-27-2020, 01:04 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: California is doing better than other large urban states where the virus first struck. It was the first state to institute a shelter-in-place order. Notice the cases and deaths per 1M people in CA. Rural states, where people are more spread apart, are not having as many cases, and parts of California also benefit from this. But Georgia is vulnerable, and has an irresponsible Republican governor who was not fairly-elected. Washington, which at first had the second-most cases of any state, now ranks 16th.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
click on "yesterday" to see an accurate total up to a single time.
There's actually a correlation between earlier lockdowns and higher peak death rates.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-lockdown...1587930911
It's too weak a correlation to really support the idea that late lockdowns are better, but it definitely doesn't support the idea that early lockdowns - or lockdowns at all - are better.
In contrast, there was a strong enough correlation between population density and peak death rates to confirm the idea that high population density is bad. California does not have an especially high population density, though.
We'll see what actually happens in Georgia in a couple weeks.