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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Lancet has produced a study comparing covid results as a function of state:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00461-0/fulltext">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00461-0/fulltext</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is one I have long been looking for. I trust the Brits with this sorta thing because they have no political dog in the fight and the Lancet is careful about what it publishes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the map below, they corrected for age demographics, as this is a well-known factor, the dominant factor in the outcome of covid cases.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Do feel free to comment, but one of the things I find striking is that the states with high infection rates are not necessarily the ones with the high death rates. I have people I care about the most on a personal level in California, Florida, Washington, Kentucky and West Virginia, in that order.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For reasons I cannot even theorize adequately, California did pretty well in infection rate but poorly in death rate. Florida was the opposite.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The two states which had few if any restrictions are South Dakota and Florida. Both did poorly in infection rates but better than average in survival rates. The states with the most restrictions (most severe lockdowns, longest school closures, most sincere mask mandates etc) are California and New York. The results of all that just puzzle me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'><img border=0 width=559 height=1016 style='width:5.8229in;height:10.5833in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D960E9.B2AC67F0"></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>