The mistakes that turned New York into an epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic
The threat of the coronavirus was looming over New York City, but Mayor Bill de Blasio was not especially worried. “I’m encouraging New Yorkers to go on with your lives + get out on the town despite Coronavirus,” on March 2. There was an Italian film playing at Lincoln Center. He urged people to see it. The day before, New York City had confirmed its first coronavirus case. At the same time, the virus appeared to be taking devastating hold in Washington state and California, in what many public health officials were predicting was an ...
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