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New York has >50x deaths per capita as SF, which sheltered-in-place a week earlier (and which had been steadily moving in that direction for two weeks prior).
by necubi 6y ago
New York has >50x deaths per capita as SF, which sheltered-in-place a week earlier (and which had been steadily moving in that direction for two weeks prior).
- brink 6y agoThis could be a different story a year from now, where NY ripped the band-aid off and achieved herd immunity long before SF, and SF took a much longer time resulting in a longer economical slump and still similar deaths over a longer period of time. I'm not saying it will be that way, but it's worth considering.
- koolba 6y agoAnd even that could be skewed by the more at risk populations fleeing for the relative safety of the suburbs and then dying there.
- throw_away2 6y agoThat's not what happened during the 1918 Flu: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/upshot/coronavirus-cities-social-distancing-better-employment.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/upshot/corona...
- postalrat 6y agoWhy do people keep linking to cnn.com? You don't think they have an agenda of their own? Link to something a bit more credible.