As an exercise, I compared each state's population density against their total number of confirmed cases. Probably not surprising that there's a correlation between more people per sq mile and a greater number of cases.
States that have high density populations primarily in their big cities have more of a disparity in rankings -- for example, NY is #8 in overall density but #1 in number of cases. The biggest outlier is D.C. with the highest population density but #32 in number of cases.
The Delta column indicates the difference in ranking between population density and number of cases.
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