Havingfun

Just some numbers:
198 Covid deaths in Lakewood. Is the Lakewood death rate higher than all other NJ townships? Yes.

Here is why,
To calculate the death rate all you have to do is divide the total deaths by the population size. However that isn’t the correct way to calculate Lakewood’s death rate. The reason it is wrong is because the median age in Lakewood is 19 which means that half of Lakewood’s population is under that age. Being that the young aren’t generally effected by Covid it wouldn’t be accurate to include them in the population size. Now if you divide the deaths for each townships by their over 40 year old population you will see that Lakewood has a little over double the average death rate. That means we lost 100 people more than we had to.

Let stop being so much smarter and just follow the rules.