But high death counts in one family has happened in the NJ. That story hangs with me when I think of physical devastation, but emotional devastation, in one family, matriarch dead at 73, 3 or her children dead (2 before she died, 1 after). I was never able to find an article after March 20th that told what had happened to the other members, still in quarantine at the time of writing the article.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/fourth-person-in-nj-family-has-died-from-the-coronavirus/
High death rate was for the whole county. The deaths in the one family was probably what triggered the lockdown.