I was willing to sign onto the Cuomo error putting infected into nursing homes, but . . . dammit, it’s more than NYC or NY state. Mass hit hard, too. PA and Maryland smacked around some, too. My theory is Italian folks visited the home country and brought it back. Chinese New Year tradition is a vacation in Italy. They brought it to Italy and the strain changed there from the Wuhan strain.
Regardless, lots of Excess Deaths.
Mostly in RAT states, so they can lower their "overhead" by killing off the dependent old people, and cash in on the covidbucks for every CV "death".
(They're RATs.....of course they're cooking the books)