Thursday New York reached 159,937 cases, surpassing Spain with 153,000 and Italy with 143,000. However, these numbers are already outdated, even if some ray of hope begins to show itself. The US is by far the country with the most infections, over 475,000, now on its way to half a million. Italy has even more deaths, 18,849, but America has almost 18,000 of them and at this rate it will overtake it between today and tomorrow just as Johns Hopkins certifies that Covid’s victims in the world are over 100 thousand.
In this already bleak picture, New York alone is worth more than any other country in the world. Yesterday in the state 777 people lost their lives due to the virus, but the mayor de Blasio admitted that about 200 victims, who died in their homes but not counted in the statistics, should be added to this figure, because they did not take the test. Typically, the city dwellers who die at home are around 25 a day, and therefore the only plausible explanation for the ongoing surge is Covid 19.
This massacre has several explanations, all of which are predictable. New York is a city of at least 8 million inhabitants, not to mention the undisclosed illegal immigrants who live in close contact. The ideal place for the spread of an epidemic. It is the “capital of the world”, as the former mayor Giuliani liked to say, and welcomes inhabitants and tourists from all over the globe. Former Governor Mario Cuomo boasted that 144 languages are spoken in the city every day, an figure that has increased in the meantime. It is a great wealth, but during a pandemic it also becomes a great hiatus. This time his bad luck was above all the strong connection with Europe, and with Italy, from which according to two studies from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the bulk of the infections came. New York then made the same mistake as President Trump nationally at the local level, starting late with mitigation measures. California has proclaimed the emergency and closed the main cities a few weeks in advance, and so far it has been right, with a much lower number of cases and deaths.
Governor Cuomo said some glimmers of light are beginning to appear. The deaths are always many, because they are the product of hospitalizations that have taken place in the past weeks, but ICU patients have fallen from 4,925 to 4,908, and hospitalizations are also slowing down. –
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