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There's nothing wrong with population density. We'd do better to have people living in dense city centers instead of sprawled out into every corner of the wilderness.



COVID-19 begs to differ


Many countries with high population density have managed to deal with COVID-19 rather well, and vice-versa.


North Dakota has more than 10x the per-capita COVID-19 infection rate of New York City right now, despite having only about 0.03% of the population density.


You're comparing two cities that got hit by COVID-19 in totally different time periods. No other place in the US had a spike like NYC


Study: Urban Density Not Linked to Higher Coronavirus Infection Rates—and Is Linked to Lower COVID-19 Death Rates

https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2020/urban-density-...




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