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There's nothing wrong with population density. We'd do better to have people living in dense city centers instead of sprawled out into every corner of the wilde
by rcpt 6y ago
There's nothing wrong with population density. We'd do better to have people living in dense city centers instead of sprawled out into every corner of the wilderness.
- airstrike 6y agoCOVID-19 begs to differ
- NovemberWhiskey 6y agoNorth Dakota has more than 10x the per-capita COVID-19 infection rate of New York City right now, despite having only about 0.03% of the population density.
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- eanzenberg 6y agoThat’s because covid ran through NYC in April leading to massive per capita loss of life.
- airstrike 6y agoYou're comparing two cities that got hit by COVID-19 in totally different time periods. No other place in the US had a spike like NYC
- hyper_reality 6y agoMany countries with high population density have managed to deal with COVID-19 rather well, and vice-versa.
- rcpt 6y agoStudy: Urban Density Not Linked to Higher Coronavirus Infection Rates—and Is Linked to Lower COVID-19 Death Rates https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2020/urban-density-not-linked-to-higher-coronavirus-infection-rates-and-is-linked-to-lower-covid-19-death-rates.html https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2020/urban-density-...