That's not how things work at all. If you get COVID-19, your chance of dying is the same regardless of what state you're in.
That's not true.
Different states are handling it differently and the resources available to people / doctors / hospitals care facilities.
Even areas within states vary.
And it's the fringe cases that matter.
An asymptomatic healthy person will probably be fine anywhere.
An overweight, asthmatic, diabetic who will need hospitalization is probably going to be better off in an area with more hospitals / healthcare facilities.
TX is at 495 deaths per million of population
CA is at 361 deaths per million of population
And since CA is much more densely packed then Texas and how fast it spreads through densely populated areas. Yeah CA is doing way better.
-Dave
As you have indicated, there are many different factors that play into what might be affecting Covid death counts. How about this.
Since it is assumed that people infect other people - that's why we have quarantining and lockdowns - why not assume that herd immunity affects other people, as well. I mean, that's why it's called HERD immunity.
If we have quarantines and lockdowns, people don't associated with others to pass on their immunity. And, if a State is not as densely packed, there won't be as much passing on of immunity.
There are those in the medical and outside of it who believe that the Covid cause is based in toxins and other things poisoning people... at least weakening them enough that Covid has a better chance to infect them. Consider the simple fact that something like 88% of all deaths are in those whose immune systems have been weakened by comorbidities.
So what about chemtrails that the military has admitted to spraying? The atmosphere is full of all kinds of viruses and bacteria that are expelled from all kinds of plants and animals. The balance of nature is being lost when metalic particulates - and particularly nano-particulates - are sprayed into the atmosphere on a regular basis like they are in the USA, and maybe most places in the world.
The compromising of the immune systems of everybody by chemtrails might be the thing that has allowed Covid to get a foothold.
Then there is the low sunspot activity time that we are in right now. The sun is a great influencer of life all around the world. We would die if the sun didn't exist. So, when it changes the amount of radiation it sends to the Earth, life is bound to change in some ways. Low solar energy from lack of sunspots might be part of the reason why everybody has a weakened immune system.
Further, since the world bank shows that Covid test kits were being sold by the medical around the world - to the tune of multi-millions of kits - at least since 2017, there is suggestion that the medical is playing on their knowledge of what chemtrails and lack of sunspots might do to people.
The point is that there are lots of factors to take into account for accurate determination of why there is a pandemic. It easily could be that Covid isn't the cause, but that other things are the culprits.