Most of the larger cities on the east coast will go the way of NY. Consider Boston, Hartford, Philly, Baltimore, DC, Cleveland, Chicago, Houston, and Atlanta are probably all headed in the direction of NYV.
As you go west, some cities are more spread out, so they might fare better.
But to think the numbers are going to get a lot bigger is just dismissing the facts.
While Fulton County (Atlanta) has the most cases (624), the worst hit place in GA is Dougherty County, GA in southern Georgia. The population is around 90k, but they have 480 cases and 27 deaths. It has one of the highest CFR per capita in the world.
It is rural as can be. If people think being rural can save you, think again. Unless you are planning to shelter in place, your small town grocery store is at risk.
In fact, I will even say that rural areas could be more at risk because people think they are safer. Fact is, unless you live on 10+ acres and never venture into town, you are at risk. Try go anywhere and see how hard it is to stay 26’ away from someone else.
/rant
((Not @ you Vermont, just ranting)
The real problem being not that the cities are as packed-in as New York, but that lots of New Yorkers fled to these areas prior to the CDC travel advisory. Some of them were infected, and on and on it goes.
I wonder if one of the staffers in the rest home that made my town hot recently went to New York.