Or maybe CA has fewer fatties with diabetes.
California is ranked 46th for obesity and NY is ranked 42nd (https://stateofchildhoodobesity.org/adult-obesity/) The difference isn’t enough to account for the disparity in current infection rates.
I have family members in CA that had a strange illness back in November/December that in hindsight had the characteristics of Covid-19. Several physicians in Washington state have told my wife that they were seeing signs of this much earlier in January, but they just classified it as an unknown respiratory virus.
I have no doubt that this thing was floating around the SF Bay Area and Los Angeles much earlier.
I believe that my county received the CCP virus in two waves, one in February when there were several arrivals from China at the airport and everybody seemed to have something flulike but more a discomfort than a dread disease. Then again a wave toward the end of March from which we have the announcements of numbers (under 30)and the numbers are not going up exponentially but by ones and twos.Few people are getting sick at all. Our two biggest employers are still open and working at full capacity, a paper mill and a shipyard with together perhaps 3000 employees. Social distancing is a phrase but the lads all work on top of each other in the shipyard at least.
no-CA has 2.5 million diabetics and maybe more undiagnosed based on demographics of a population with more Hispanics and African Americans than most states