I’d note that more conservative states did not report than liberal states that did not report — and all the big blue states reported, I believe.
Perhaps Tennessee may have had trouble getting data from ice storm areas?
BTW, check out S. Korea’s curves. I’m guessing they were late to the party with Delta, which gave their truly Orwellian mitigation a good test. It’s rather looking like Omicron may break through it. I’d also note that SK’s effective CFR with Delta was almost as high as their prior wave, running around 1.1%. I’m not sure what they were doing for vaccines or treatments...
Good call on S. Korea. I had not looked at them recently.
Omicron has gotten into Asia. Hong Kong has a case spike underway. 0 deaths. I do wonder how you get a case spike in general. People have to be pretty sick to get tested.
Singapore is enduring a similar spike with 3 dead. Densely packed cities, but that doesn’t seem to be decisive. Taiwan is one of the most densely populated places on earth and they have from day 1 had few issues.