Speaking of NY, they are completely distorting the rest of the US. In fact, US (less NY) daily fatalities peaked a few days ago at 90, and are now at 40+-% of the top:
I've got to give credit to kabar - he's one of the first who brought up the developing awareness about apparent CV specificity. More than anything, it may not be age and/or HCS, but simply dense urban life styles and living conditions that are the prime driver of CV - both scope/rate of infection spread and mortality. This episode is going to launch a thousand PhD theses producing very complex, detailed analyses.