Thanks for that. That was the piece I was looking for, having never been to either cities. Toronto is massive I know, but interesting the NY metro is more dense. And good point NY is the transportation hub of the world to some extent.
I don’t see much point in comparing death rates per capita or per infection from country to country, as there is also the factor of different reporting protocols when people who were already ill pass away with a positive reading for this virus but with morbidity perhaps already inevitable.
In fact unless there are huge differences country to country to some extent it would be random distribution at work, different genetic predispositions, accidents of timing (in Canada for example there is nothing similar to the beach gatherings of spring break unless people are looking to die from hypothermia perhaps).
As to anyone who celebrates or gloats in this situation, those people are losers and should be called out, but in Canada except in a few rare groupings you get a free card to be a loser as long as you remain within the cultural norms (it’s a little brother complex at work). I take the opposite approach, I hope and pray that your country comes through this as lightly as possible under the circumstances.
The interesting thing would be to compare cities’ density by VOLUME. But I don’t even know if that kind of data is out there.
In other cases, some cities’ surface area apparently includes a lot of water area. Wuhan, for example, does not appear to be exceptionally “dense”, looking at it on Wikipedia, etc., but I don’t know if the area cited includes all of the many water bodies inside the city limits.