Who estimated the infection rate?
Official AZ estimates are like 11% or maybe 14%.
Far from 44% listed here.
Looks to me like some Democrat trying to badmouth Republican Governors. See all the Democratic run states on the bottom of the infection rate.
I think you’re right: those case numbers don’t look right to me at all. Case numbers depend a lot on testing. Death numbers are a lot easier to work from. With an IFR of 0.65%, simply take the number of deaths and divide by .0065. Then divide by the population. That gives you a rough estimate of the total number of resolved cases, only missing the cases from the past couple weeks (average of about 12 days for cases to resolve one way or the other).
When you do that, who pops up to the top of the list? New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts.