05-20-2020, 08:14 PM
(05-20-2020, 05:06 PM)embe Wrote: Curious if there is a stat to show correlation between cases vs. population. For example: if there are 262 active cases in the region, and assuming a 262K population, that's like one out of every 1000 people. (using rough numbers for the sake of simplicity).
Per population stats are a bit tricky. They're useful to know whether the virus is everywhere in the community but not a good way to compare how big the outbreak is in different places, because we have basically an infinite population in many places (since there is probably no native immunity, although that may not be completely true).