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Coronavirus deaths in San Francisco vs. New York: What causes such big differences in cities' tolls?

  • Written by Laura B. Balzer, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Director of the UMass Causality Lab, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageNurses and other health care workers in New York mourned colleagues who have died during the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

San Francisco and New York City both reported their first COVID-19 cases during the first week of March. On March 16, San Francisco announced it was ordering residents to stay home to avoid...

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