The weirdest thing I find about people rejecting the use of per-capita statistics is that they still insist on reporting by country rather than by continent. If population doesn’t matter, why do national borders matter? https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1248336178656325632

I assume there’s already economists preparing regression discontinuity studies on the proximity to borders to help us assess the efficacy of country-level variation in policies. If nobody has a paper based on this list, I’d be amazed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_divided_cities

The last time I brought this up, people noted that there's no correlation globally between country population and confirmed cases.

But locally the exact opposite is true: the confirmed cases in NYC borough are extremely correlated (>0.8) with population.