![45 out of 50 Governors did not do this. [720x1090 - 143KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/nn648l.jpg){kind=link}
40% of the covid deaths in the US happened in those five states?
For context, they have roughly 27% of the population of the US.
I have no idea if the 40% number is correct however.
California has 11.91% of the population, 9.98% of the deaths. (45th youngest state)
New York has 5.87% of the population, 9.06% of the deaths.
Pennsylvania has 3.86% of the population, 4.57% of the deaths.
New Jersey has 2.68% of the population, 4.41% of the deaths.
Michigan has 3.01% of the population, 3.11% of the deaths.
So collectively, 27.33% of the population, 31.13% of the deaths. Though there was a time where 40% was the figure. I just can't point to when that was because it is in a qpost and you guys would completely flip shit.
The data is completely fucky though. You can't really do a meta analysis when the baseline is so shit. For context Florida has 6.48% of the population, 5.88% of the deaths but looking at their raw data I saw an average age of death of 75 with multiple, multiple comorbities and a maximum age of over 110 being recorded as COVID deaths. So it becomes impossible to see the stark contrast between relatively free states like TX and FL that had lax/no policy and shithole blue states because they are both manipulating statistics. NY had a backlog of nursing home deaths, FL is trying to collect that sweet gibs for public hospitals, etc etc.
NJ had more covid deaths per capita than any other state or country. 1 in every 378 people to date. Almost all of these died in April of last year. The spread was so much slower this fall and winter in the NYC area, I suppose because we are already approaching herd immunity.
US Deaths per year have been increasing by between 1 and 5 % for several years. 2020 increase was maybe a 19% increase. You can break out deaths per state and look at the relative of increase over several years compared to this last year. I feel is is reasonable to rely on total body count all causes and treat the relative increase all causes as largely due to covid. It should roughly match the covid numbers. If covid numbers exceed the relative increase youve definitley got something fishy. That doesnt seem to happen at the national level. But it might happen in some states.
(post is archived)