California has a death rate that puts it like 40th in rank from worst death to best.
And yet, despite the u.n. and the who’s best efforts, the death rate world wide remains at 100%. Nobody getting out of this alive. Yet.
Correct as to 40th out of 50 states in terms of deaths per million. Deaths are a much better measure of the severity of the plague than cases. People do have multiple tests; one the quick one and one that takes 5-7 days. Two positives probably are counted as two cases.
California has almost as many test taken as population, 32 million vs 39 million. So the case frequency is very high, but the case mortality rate is only .014.
New York has a lower case rate but much higher death rate at nearly 2000 deaths per million population. Its case mortality is .039.
Which state has had the bigger problem and needs the most severe measures?
Of course it is not a simple problem because the above numbers are cumulative and the current dynamics are more important.
I think NY proves that long term lock downs don’t have much effect, The virus is out there and will kill its victims eventually until the vaccines take hold. Lots of businesses will have died for no reason.