I did a quick search and didn't see this posted before- please forgive me if it has been!

Research on the effect of open ocean coast (Western, because of westerly winds) on Covid-19 deaths.

This is absolutely gorgeous!

Posted by endergrrl

8 comments

  1. Extract: Covid & flu is less common or dangerous along the West coast USA and the nearer to the ocean the better.

  2. It should never be forgotten that, overall, the US did a TERRIBlBLE job with COVID. We had the highest mortality rate (MR)from COVID of any major developed country including China where it started(*fyi: I’m using the estimated MR rate of China Covid not what China ‘officially’ reported)*. 

    This data, particularly from the US, should absolutely be scrutinized to help minimize MR across the globe for future pandemics to not make the same mistakes. 

    Personally, I would have started by making sure we elect more competent leadership to oversee national and global crisis and literally not the same people but that’s just me….

  3. I think people also forget that west coast people already owned N95 masks because of seasonal wild fires. It was normal, even before San Francisco went into its first quarantine, to bust out your mask as the first Covid cases began to pop up.

  4. For anyone wondering about the graphic:

    “An exception on the map is Nebraska that shows an unproportional low death incidence, compared to all neighboring States. We could not find a reason for this and treated it as is.”

  5. The west coast is where progressive, correct, informed public health policy most existed and just after that are dipshit conservative areas of the same states which are rural and should have had cases at a fraction of the rate of the more densely populated coastal counties. Aside form age, deaths were largely due to being overweight or obese and that’s much less common in the wealthier, more progressive west coast areas. Hawaii was low for many reasons having zero to do with the ocean. Vermont’s low death rate was largely the same due to similar policies and compliant populations and Vermont isn’t on any coast.

  6. This seems like cherry-picking without various factors accounted for.

    The pacific ocean 🌊 helps, but not the gulf or Atlantic? Does air only flow one direction?

    It’s more likely related to overall health, wealth, public safety policy, compliance with health policies, culture, and geographic isolation of major urban areas and other states with poor policy and compliance.

    Example: a blue state like Maryland may have attempted the same thing, but the small nature of the states in the mid Atlantic, and relative proximity to very red areas like West Virginia or southern VA may have make any individual effort pointless.

  7. Is there data map for covid cases before and after the vaccine?

  8. When your linear regression shows a wonky non-linear result, you’re probably not finding anything real. Especially when you only control for the barest possible number of other things that might affect the results. I’m not sure what they were trying to prove, but there’s not much there there

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