Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Cuomo is no hero for NY Date:   4/1/2020 1:11:25 PM

The problem with NYC is you have 8M people living in a small geographic area that is punishing to anyone that owns a car.  So many people move around by subway and cab, eat out in small crowded restaurants, etc.  It also has the highest population of Chinese-Americans so it probably makes sense that there may be a lot of travelers to and from China.  It also has three large airports.  In essence it is an incubator for a pandemic.  Add NJ into the mix, where a lot of NYC people work, and it gets even worse.

NY/NJ combined accounts for 52% of the total Wuhan virus cases and 51% of the deaths in the entire country (so far).  So if you literally remove those two states all our numbers drop in half.  The real question is whether they are the canary in the coal mine and were impacted earlier than other places or they are an outlier and it won't be as bad elsewhere.  I suspect the latter primarily because of all the reasons above that make NY/NJ unique and the measures taken in other states as a result of what happened there.