The article does not say how many were tested because as we all know, massive test results are coming in nation wide.
Why does it read like an effort to try and score political narrative that Trump is not doing enough? (Damned propaganda, that’s why!)
The numbers of infected is going up because we are testing more.
At some point we will understand how serious this is.
Big jumps in the numbers are scary but, we have been expecting such.
Testing doesn’t matter. The numbers needing hospitalization and ICU do. They will show whether you test, or not.
Probably, a lot reported here as not needing hospitalization, are going to, in the near future.
Many of those hospitalized, now, may recover and be discharged in some amount of time.
It’s all a “numbers game”, and I think only a fool would try to call it now. The “experts” don’t appear optimistic.
Here’s the thing though. I work for a major international bank in NYC, with a huge presence there, 15000 plus employees. Nobody knows of one person anywhere that has this. Nobody in the company, nobody’s family, not even a friend of a friend of a worker, no customers that have it who could be traced to branches Nothing. And they will alert for anything. The amount of email on this is staggering internally and nothing on potential community transmissions.
Now I understand we are in a city of 8M and there are only 1700 cases, yet it seems odd that the grim statistics are not matched by any firsthand knowledge. In contrast, on 9/11, and perhaps a poor analogy, but everyone knew someone who was there, who was killed or had some connection to it or was affected by it. So I am interested to see how this unfolds in the next week or so.