Poor Data

It's all over every news channel, numbers confirmed infected and dead.  As far as I'm concerned they're practically useless numbers.  Numbers per capita has a lot more meaning.  The published numbers for the US are now higher than Italy. But so what?  What's the population of Italy?  I'd bet it's less than the 330 million we have here.

Think of it this way. Let's say 10 percent are sick in NYC.  That's a much larger number than 10 percent in say Dayton Ohio.  To be meaningful you must divide by the population of the area studied.

Scare tactics?