Philadelphia has 136 deaths, NYC has 8,900. Population density doesn't account for having a death rate 65 times higher.
More likely, they're classifying every natural death to corona in hopes of getting more aid dollars and consolidating power.
Definitely that is true. The commingling of true China virus deaths with influenza, and deaths from non infectious causes where China flu was present makes it much more difficult to understand what is really going on.
It is clear that there is a higher infection rate but is there really even a higher death rate?
You keep using this word “rate”. I don’t think you know what it means. (apologies to Prince Bride).
Let’s say there are 10 People that live in Philly area, and 100 in the NYC metro area (total - that’s not the numbers but it is good for an example).
If 1 person in Philly dies, and 10 people in NYC metro area died, the RATE is IDENTICAL.
This is why you have to look at per 100,000 - to get a RATE.
Bingo!
I think we have a winner here.
On average, just under 1% of Americans die every year of natural causes -- it works out to about 8,000 per day.
Of those, 2/3 die from well known reasons -- heart, cancer, lungs, stroke, Alzheimer & diabetes, etc.
Now we see Covid-19 producing up to 2,000 deaths per day, but are those in addition to the other 8,000 or are we just reclassifying many who were knocking on death's door anyway as now "Covid deaths"?
One thing is a certainty of human nature -- whenever the government is handing out "free money", many smart people will figure out ways to maximize their own "fair shares".