OK. Remove Fllnt, Lansing & Ann Arbor.wgdsr wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 8:17 pmif you're adding in flint, lansing, etc. you're just looking at the majority of the population. not 80+%, but the majority.old salt wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 6:08 pmBy my tally -- the greater Detroit metro area accounts for approx 3500(JHU) of 4000(NPR) MI deaths.RedFromMI wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 3:25 pmNothing definitive - but here are some possibilities: (from https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-healt ... -neighbors)wgdsr wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 2:10 pm anyone have an idea/analysis on why michigan is doing so poorly to this point?
no ethnic or age disparity with the rest of the u.s. detroit city is/was bad but accounts for ~25% ish of the total so you could throw that out and they'd still be in bad shape.
they seem to be an outlier. if not the outlier.
Michigan could have been hit harder because the virus may have already been in the community for days or weeks before the symptoms or testing.
Among the possibilities Hutton and others have mentioned for the rapid spread in Michigan:
Detroit Metropolitan Airport, which has a large international hub and flights to Wuhan, China, where the outbreak originated in December and its airport remained open until Jan. 23.
Supply lines between Detroit automakers and Wuhan, a major auto hub and home to five car manufacturers including Dongfeng Motor, one of the biggest in China. General Motors has 15 assembly plants in China with its partners, while Ford has six and Fiat Chrysler has two.
Ties between automakers, particularly FCA, and Italy, which has more than 77,000 cases and 12,000 deaths.
Michigan's March 10 presidential primary and big campaign rallies leading up to it, including one that drew 6,000 in Detroit for Bernie Sanders on March 6. In contrast, Ohio cancelled its March 17 primary.
Go to the JHU dashboard, + zoom in on the dots in the Detroit area, look at their size & click on each, then add up their component deaths sub totals.
From Detroit, W to Lansing, N to Flint, then compare to the dots in the Chicago, Boston & NYC metro areas.
Not unlike StL & B'more, where the adjoining county has as many, or more, deaths reported.
Consistent with major NE urban population centers.
lansing is the same distance to detroit as philly to ny.
anyway, their numbers are way out of whack from what you'd infer given everything.
Detroit' is in Wayne Co (1893 deaths), bordered on the N by Oakland Co (757) & Macomb Co (628), containing Detroit metro commuter communities.
Those 3 counties account for 3278 of MI's approx 4000 deaths.
MI's outbreak is concentrated in the SE corner of the state, in & around the Detroit metro area.
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/track- ... active-map