Japan to stage Tokyo Olympics without overseas spectators
&gt; it peaked at more than 2,500 cases per day in Tokyo<p>That&#x27;s 0.027% of the population of Tokyo per day in a city that has over 6,000 people packed in per square kilometer.<p>By comparison, Idaho has a population density of 7.64 people per square kilometer, and right now the infection rate there is 0.021% of its population per day.<p>That&#x27;s only a 30% difference in percentage of population infected per day, but there are three orders of magnitude between their population densities!<p>Whatever Tokyo is doing to keep COVID under control with such a crazy high population density, it looks like we&#x27;ve got an entire state over here in the U.S. that could still learn some of the basics.