Acutally 5 of the top 6 American Corona hell hole states are NJ, NY, RI, Mass and Conn with the outlier being Mississipi. In other words NYC did damage far outside the state lineSure you did.I made a post yesterday in the DeSantis topic saying DeSantis is among the worst in the nation - but that South Dakota and North Dakotas are the worst.
SD has 1850 deaths and a population of 885,000 residents for a death rate of 0.21%
NY has 47,100 deaths and a population of 19,300,000, for a death rate of 0.24%.
Sources:
Wikipedia for populations. The following for the deaths....
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