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Originally Posted by loochy

I think maybe it's more because there are a ton of people that live there. What is hospital capacity per capita like in the hard hit areas? Are their per capita infection and hospitalization rates really that much higher than elsewhere? (I'm too lazy to look)

Take areas A and B where both have the identical populations, demographic distribution and public health metrics.

I would find it hard to believe that if A had higher true population density than B that they would have fewer total cases, hospitalizations and fatalities.

But good luck actually calculating that because true population density != population / area.