High population density, High mobility
Extensive international travel,
High dependency on mass transit
Increased High risk behavior
Oh yes, in your face types
It is impossible to see a news report on the virus without either the Mayor of New York or the Governor of N.Y. Sometimes both.
Are they the official spokesmen for America? The media treats them so.
Mass transit incubators
Cumo and DeBlasio acted late.
It certainly didn’t help that deBlasio and his staff were telling New Yorkers to go about their normal lives right up until March 12.
Not to mention Cuomo shut down like 19 hospitals few years ago and lost 20K beds. He shut them down due to mass losses from Medicaid as the hospitals in those areas were mostly uninsured or Medicaid patients.
Less hospitals, less beds= over whelmed current hospitals.
The NYC suburbs have a higher infection rate than NYC.
NYC has a higher fatality rate.
Singapore is also quite dense, but seems to be faring much better. Maybe the difference is just NY’s greater reliance on public transportation, and its aversion to anything that Trump recommends.
Use of masks has been ongoing in these countries since before COVID-19.
US in general is a nation of overweight / obese people, which is a risk factor.
There are other cities with high density like NYC.
There’s a $$$ reason. Each COVID-19 related procedure is an average $10,000.
There is a large financial inventive to twist any patient’s symptoms into some sort of SARS-COV-2 related illness. For example, a patient gets diagnosed for a flu virus, it becomes with a stroke of the pen a coronavirus.
Take all these things and add in that Mayor de Blasio laughed off the bug and told people to eat at restaurants, go to parades and mass gatherings, ride mass transit, and generally go on as if there were no threat. San Francisco, America’s sh*%iest city, has less than 1,000 cases and 15 dead. NYC was never going to match that, but it didn’t have to be half as bad as it is.
Didn’t the President ban flights from Iran and a liberal NY judge overturned that ban?
They live like sardines in a smelly can?
Melting pot.
Subway system
Theaters
Millions in close walking proximity.
Common heat cool systems in apartments and businesses
NYC is a sick place.
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All you grammar trolls...
Thank me.