Originally Posted by Valsdad
Originally Posted by 260Remguy
As of today, 04/01/20, the Omaha World Herald newspaper is reporting that projection are for 442 people in Nebraska may die from COVID-19.

In round numbers, 500 death from a population of 1,929,000 people is 0.0259% or 1 death out of every 3,858.

If those ratios are applied to the 330,000,000 U.S. citizens, we could expect around 86,000 deaths from COVID-19.

Since COVID-19 seems to be more deadly for the old and those who have underlying health problems, some subset of that group of 86,000 would die from other causes.

What doesn't kill you can make you stronger if you'er willing to embrace change. But how much are we will to pay in terms of dollars and loss of local control to feel protected by the Federal bureaucracy out of WDC?

I heard people talking about Federalizing healthcare and unemployment insurance, pointing to Germany as a model. So many people seem to expect "The Feds" to have all the answers when they are in trouble, but when they aren't in trouble they want local control and freedom of choice. Can't have it both ways.

Or so it seems to me.



Could that lower rate of
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In round numbers, 500 death from a population of 1,929,000 people is 0.0259% or 1 death out of every 3,858.


have any relation whatsoever to a lower population density?

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Yeah, it's a 2005 map, but it's a good representation of what's still there.

Nebraska sure looks a whole lot less crowded than some other places in the good ol' US of A.

That rate you mentioned just might not hold up in Michigan, Ohio, TN, or FL.

Geno


I don't know if population density is a major factor in the spread of COVID-19.

Wuhan is a city of over 11,000,000 people with a population density of over 1,300 per square KM. The Chinese seem to think the worst of the disease is over for them and if it didn't spread like wildfire through that densely packed city, I don't understand why it would be any worse elsewhere.

That said, I don't know how many people are likely to die from COVID-19 in the U.S.. I can't do anything about it except to stay away from other people as much as possible and clean/disinfect everything from outside that I come into contact with.