Based on research by the Heritage Foundation, the Daily Signal is reporting 30 counties with the most COVID-19 cases account for 48% of all the cases in the U.S. and 55% of all deaths, three to four times greater than their 15% share of the U.S. population. Even allowing for suggestions that there is massive over-reporting of Wuhan virus deaths, what is it that makes you more likely to die if you get the virus in these counties?
This is the same population that, on a good day, accounts for most deaths.
Among the baseline well, there is, on any day, a non-zero death rate.
However, the population that is most likely to die is…more likely to die.
Adding coronavirus to this serves as a force-multiplier (not additive, multiplicative.)