Had a few spare minutes and was curious about how the numbers broke down by county. So I took the latest numbers hot of the MDH website and compared them to the latest available county census numbers.
The average infection rate by county is 0.55%.
The average death rate by county is 0.03%.
The county with the highest infection rate is Scott county at 2.08%.
The county with the highest death rate is Holmes county at 0.13%.
Obvioulsy, this does not include the number of people that had it and were never tested due to just not bothering with it or being asymptomatic and never knowing it, but I just wanted to look a little deeper beyond Hinds being reported as having 898 cases or Oktibbeha having 139 cases.
I don't present these taking the side of open it all back up now or the side of we need go back to lockdown mode. I was just curious and crunched the numbers. I report. You decide.
The average infection rate by county is 0.55%.
The average death rate by county is 0.03%.
The county with the highest infection rate is Scott county at 2.08%.
The county with the highest death rate is Holmes county at 0.13%.
Obvioulsy, this does not include the number of people that had it and were never tested due to just not bothering with it or being asymptomatic and never knowing it, but I just wanted to look a little deeper beyond Hinds being reported as having 898 cases or Oktibbeha having 139 cases.
I don't present these taking the side of open it all back up now or the side of we need go back to lockdown mode. I was just curious and crunched the numbers. I report. You decide.
