As I've been posting the weekly 122 Cities stats, I've noticed that New England, made up of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, almost consistently has the highest ratio of P&I deaths. I am especially curious about that since that area has shown minimal flu activity up until week 52. Most of the time, the Pacific area, California (predominately), Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, has the second highest ratio; and they, too have had low levels of flu.
Gs and I discussed this a bit and he mentioned pollution, nutrition... as possible secondary causes. I assume many people in those use wood-burning stoves for heating and I wonder if that adds substantially to respiratory diseases. Does California still have high levels of smog?
Gs gave me this link for the 1952 London Smog, which I had never read about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog
Does anyone have any other ideas regarding high death ratios for those 2 areas? Maybe the reporting somehow skews the statistics? Or maybe I'm just overlooking something obvious.
Gs and I discussed this a bit and he mentioned pollution, nutrition... as possible secondary causes. I assume many people in those use wood-burning stoves for heating and I wonder if that adds substantially to respiratory diseases. Does California still have high levels of smog?
Gs gave me this link for the 1952 London Smog, which I had never read about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog
Does anyone have any other ideas regarding high death ratios for those 2 areas? Maybe the reporting somehow skews the statistics? Or maybe I'm just overlooking something obvious.
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