Lot of good smart ideas here. We need smart guidance for the long haul. NYC is really not quite like anywhere else in the US for COVID. Not just because of the calamity of round 1 but the basic geography of the city.https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1262719636036096002 …
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Note also that some of the hardest-hit places in New York (Staten Island, Brooklyn south of Prospect Park) were low density areas. I think the correct claim is "we don't know why NYC got as bad as it did"
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This makes sense if you completely ignore occupational patterns and transport through the city. Saying density and the subways didn't play a big role is simply absurd.
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Please read what I said. I did not say the density inevitably causes that kind of outbreak. Aggressive, early containment & being able to track the spread wld have changed things dramatically. But in absence of those, NYC human geography was clearly a huge factor. Zero question.
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I read what you said. All these conditions apply to Tokyo and Osaka, where there was also little testing, or hyperdense poorer cities like Manila or New Delhi. We have lots of examples on hand of very dense cities that did little and didn't have trouble on the scale of NYC.
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