Top 10 Sickest Cities in the United States – Did Buffalo Rank?
It seems that Buffalo, NY, can make every list possible, which is a good thing and a really bad thing at the same time.
Buffalo ranked fifth in this latest Twitter-based study to see what cities talk about being sick the most. A California-based company, Bay Alarm Medical looked at close to 500,000 geotagged tweets to see who and where they are the most sick – all while looking at the time of the year they tweet as well.
The study says nationally, sick tweets are the highest during the months of December and January. And when it comes to the work week- sickness-related tweets are highest on Tuesday.
According to the study by Bay Alarm Medical the sickest cities in the U.S. are:
- 1
New Orleans, LA
- 2
Miami, FL
- 3
Atlanta, GA
- 4
Lubbock, TX
- 5
Buffalo, NY
- 6
Boston, MA
- 7
Baton Rouge, LA
- 8
Greensboro, NC
- 9
Pittsburgh, PA
- 10
Arlington, VA