6 weeks after Texas lifted its mask mandate & Illinois didn’t, hospitalizations in Illinois have passed Texas

by ScreenExtension

Crowded city streets, subways, and buses have been considered the most likely places to become infected with COVID-19 over the past few months. Surprisingly, however, a new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health concludes that densely populated spaces aren’t actually linked to higher infection rates.

Even more confounding, the study’s analysis indicates that crowded, dense locations are associated with lower coronavirus 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

Population density has little to do with deaths per capita.

https://www.britannica.com/science/infectious-disease/Population-density

plus

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

from

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01944363.2020.1777891

h/t ScreenExtension