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• The AVERAGE death rate across the US is currently 2.48%
• The states with the five highest death rates (obviously owing to the early breakout in New York area when we weren't prepared and didn't know how to treat it well):
  1) New Jersey: 7.22%
  2) Connecticut: 7.04%
  3) Massachusetts: 6.7%
  4) New York: 6.69%
  5) New Hampshire: 4.73%
• Only 10 states have a death rate above 3%
• The average of the lower 40 states is still 1.8%
• Only 7 states have a death rate below 1%
• Utah has a death rate of only 0.57% (Despite all the anti-mask personal freedom rhetoric and ward gatherings in the name of religious freedom)
• Alaska is the lowest at 0.53%. Utah is #2, followed by Wyoming at 0.62%. In the same region, Idaho is sitting at 0.99%.

Just This Guy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 12:37 pm Based on the numbers given, it looks like there is a fairly obvious explanation, and church attendance is not part of it.
I would say the low death rate is a factor of population density. The top 5 states are known to have large, dense population areas. the lowest states are know to have very low population densities.

So really, it's social distancing at work. When people spread out, the virus does not infect as much.

Red Ryder wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 4:26 pm I thought it was the altitude.

Or the garments. Not even a virus wants to get near those hideous things!

Hagoth wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 8:06 pm On the other hand, contributor to NOM who was a hospital administrator ran the numbers for cancer deaths (specifically breast cancer IIRC) and found that Utah has slightly fewer cases than the national per-capita average, but slightly higher deaths. I am tempted to give the Word of Wisdom credit for the lower cases and false hope for pretend priesthood power the credit for the higher deaths.

Palerider wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 3:36 pm You didn't mention Montana.....

If the stats I'm looking at are correct it's better than utah at .01%

So now we know where God's truly favored country lies. And it isn't Utah....

græy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 7:12 am

Palerider wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 3:36 pm You didn't mention Montana.....

If the stats I'm looking at are correct it's better than utah at .01%

So now we know where God's truly favored country lies. And it isn't Utah....

According to the data I downloaded as of Oct 22, Montana had a mortality rate of 1.10% (276 deaths after 25,004 infections) - almost double Utah's 0.57%.

Having grown up in Wyoming and visited Montana several times (Glacier National Park!), I still recognize Montana as God's truly favored land of promise.