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Their higher hospitalization rate corresponds with a higher "old people" population.
You'd think so, but South Dakota actually has a higher elderly percentage than Queens, 16.6% vs. 13.8%. It could be that older people in rural areas come into contact with far fewer people and are less likely to catch something, so the average age of those with the virus might be younger in South Dakota.
You'd think so, but South Dakota actually has a higher elderly percentage than Queens, 16.6% vs. 13.8%. It could be that older people in rural areas come into contact with far fewer people and are less likely to catch something, so the average age of those with the virus might be younger in South Dakota.
South Dakota was just declared a coronavirus hot spot. Your response is obsolete at this point.
You'd think so, but South Dakota actually has a higher elderly percentage than Queens, 16.6% vs. 13.8%. It could be that older people in rural areas come into contact with far fewer people and are less likely to catch something, so the average age of those with the virus might be younger in South Dakota.
That would be my guess. I'm from Queens, and it's probably a lot easier to social distance in the countryside than it is in a 40-unit apartment building. In many NYC apartment buildings, if you want to check your mail, you have to go to the lobby. If you want to wash your clothes, you have to go to the laundry room. If you want to do either of those, you have to use the elevator or stairwells. Etc.
There are other reasons available for the high hospitalization rates - I was just throwing one out (age). For instance, another is space and resources. Two people, same symptoms, same degree of "sick"- one might be told to "shelter in place" in NY - or told to head to the ER in another community. Lots of reasons. None of them sneaky.
They just discovered these infections at the Smithfield Factory last week, its a little premature to use current data. We know that the disease spreads very fast doubling ever few days and the governor didn't take any action.
I was told that the South Dakota governor sort of bragged about South Dakota not being NY.
I wonder what her tone is now. It’s amazing how dangerous people who lack critical thinking can be to other people.
Now she’ll be enjoy being in a empty state that’s a corona virus hot spot.
Don’t speak on things that you have not done research on because history of outbreaks show that you do not have to exclusively be in Manhattan to be in a virus hotspot
Now-SD has an infection rate of 1517/M. NY has a rate of 11,530/M.
SD has a death rate of 8/million. NY has a rate of 821/M. In other words, 100X worse.
I think her tone would be exactly the same.
Oh-and you do realize that meat packing plants are essential businesses; they would have been open
with a "stay at home" order.
Minnehaha county, which is the county that Sioux Falls is in, has a population of 193,000. As of today it has 1,157 diagnosed cases of COVID-19. That represents about 0.6% of the population. The real number is obviously much higher than that because of a shortage of tests but that gives it one of the higher rates of confirmed cases in the country. Given that Sioux Falls is in the early days of its outbreak those numbers will certainly go higher.
Viruses don't care about politics, race or geographic animosities.
Now-SD has an infection rate of 1517/M. NY has a rate of 11,530/M.
SD has a death rate of 8/million. NY has a rate of 821/M. In other words, 100X worse.
I think her tone would be exactly the same.
Oh-and you do realize that meat packing plants are essential businesses; they would have been open
with a "stay at home" order.
Except her tone was no longer the same.
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