Ask HN: SARS-CoV-2 cases by US metro area

Anyone else taken a deep look at the numbers across all major US metro areas? The Hopkins map: https://tinyurl.com/sarscov2map Take a look at: Louisville - KY; Savannah, Atlanta - GA; Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando, Gainseville, Tallahassee - FL; Montgomery, Birmingham - AL; Jackson - MS; Charleston- SC; Charlotte - NC; Richmond - VA; Wash DC & Baltimore; Dover - DE. Virginia has 600 cases, 83 hospitalizations and 14 deaths with 8.5m people. Look at Virginia Beach and Norfolk. Houston, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, Dallas - TX; Las Vegas, Reno - NV; Tucson, Phoenix - AZ; Boise - ID; Oklahoma City - OK. This list goes on. Take the area cases and deaths, look up their metro area populations, compare. The Houston metro has more people than Belgium, with only a few hundred cases and a few deaths (Belgium has 289 deaths). The Atlanta metro area has 6m people (more than Denmark). It might have 600 cases and ~14 deaths. The Phoenix metro area has 5m people. It has a few hundred cases and only a few deaths. The case counts are incorrect, they're undercounted. The deaths and hospitalizations are most interesting, those are hard to ignore or not count at this point (and the US has ramped testing). You can go on state sites and get their hospitalizations. The ICUs in these areas are not being overloaded, there is zero evidence of the US broadly being flooded with Covid - and it's not going to be. If they broadcast this information on CNN, comprehensively, the US public would not react well. All areas are not equally susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, based on climate. It's becoming more clear by the day. And I suspect that's about the last thing they want to tell the public. Cuomo said NY was getting slammed while California isn't, because NY is more welcoming. NYC is getting slammed because they're susceptible in the same way Milan, Paris, London, and Wuhan are.