[Disestablishmentarian]

Is there any truth to the notion that there was a separate, slightly more dangerous strain of COVID19 that infected New York compared to the rest of the country? I was listening to an interview of Victor Davis Hanson in which he referred to this. I hadn’t heard that anywhere else.

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I don't know; but I doubt it.

Many New Yorkers have ties to Florida, and Florida was obviously not infected with a "More dangerous strain."

I would guess that New York was targeted, for approximately the same reasons it was targeted on 911: Financial capitol, media capitol, population density etc.

[mbrfl]

Hanson brought it up in reference to Andrew Cuomo referring to the virus as the “European virus” last month. He was claiming that the New York infections came from Italy which he claimed had claimed the virus had mutated from the original Wuhan virus. Since New York had more contacts with Europe, he was claiming most of their infections came from there. I don’t know if there’s any truth to any of it. It’s the first I had heard it mentioned. I’ll see if I can find the VDH interview. Here’s an article reporting on Cuomo calling it the European virus.

https://www.rt.com/usa/488400-governor-cuomo-european-virus/