And many of those Covid deaths happened in Democrat New York.
It’s even more concentrated than that: in NY state, the best estimate is that there have been 33,000 COVID deaths so far, with just over 22,000 occurring in the New York City area. That’s more than 2/3 of the state cases occuring in a handful of counties in the urban core. The same thing happened in New Jersey: the half dozen counties immediately adjacent to New York City had the lion’s share of the cases.
New York was a trainwreck. And the media took NYC as a proxy for the rest of the country, creating a totally distorted view. That’s not an accident, of course, but it bears repeating when they gin up their hysterical shrieking about the “data” and the “science”.