One would have thought that NY would be well on the way to recovery by now, given that they were very severely hit early on and particularly in the densely populated areas the virus likely spread very fast and quickly. Then the closures and the masks “should have” slowed the spread.
Instead we’re seeing pretty close to the opposite. Upticks, well after one year from the first major impact on the people of the city/state.
Take a look at New York’s daily deaths. Scroll to the very bottom for the graph.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/new-york/
I don’t have NYC alone, that would probably illustrate it even better.
Throughout summer and fall covid death was pretty much gone from NY.
They did seem to hit a type of herd immunity.
But there is so much travel and movement and turnover of population through NYC so it’s coming back.
The herd doesn’t stay constant.
That’s my take.