Gee. Could the largest Chinese population in the country of 1.6 million in NYC have something to do with the increase since half of them went to China in January for the New Year and returned to NYC in February?? Sarc
NYC has nowhere near 1.6 million Chinese. Could travel to and from China have exacerbated this ? Of course, but that was closed off on 1/31. Now travel to and from Italy wasn’t closed off until 10 days ago. So traveling paisans could have brought it on just as well. Teachers returning from mid winter recess from overseas definitely did ans the death of a NYC principal demonstrated and the failure to close the schools and even notify the Board of Health of positive test results certainly helped as 120,000 high school kids take mass transit every day.
Less than 2 weeks ago, Mayor DidHeBlowMe was dragging the Presidents guidelines and encouraging New Yorkers to get out a do things. I believe the spread occurred readily in the Subway. Mayor killed thousands.