What happened with COVID-19 in NY was a tragedy, what's happening in TX, AZ, and FL is a crime
The first case of COVID-19 in New York state was confirmed on March 1, two weeks later, on March 14, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the state had over 100 new cases in a single day. Four days later it was 1,000. The next day it was over 2,000. The next day, 3,000. On March 22, the state announced 5,440 new confirmed cases. New York went from 200 cases in a day, to over 5,400 cases in a day … in just a single week.
Obviously, it didn’t. Not in any real sense. New York’s numbers were not determined by the actual spread of COVID-19, which had begun circulating in the area since sometime in January. Modeling shows that by mid-February, at a time when the state had no reported cases, there were already between 500 and 1,000 cases of COVID-19 in New York, and the epidemic was growing unchecked. New York got blindsided. Officials there had neither sufficient knowledge about how the disease spread, nor the available tests to see the freight train bearing down on them. But none of that is true for the states now headed into an all-too-familiar hurricane of full hospitals and lost lives.
Over the last week, new daily cases of COVID-19 in Texas have increased from 2,138 on June 15, to 5,112 on June 22. That’s not the out-of-control storm that ripped into New York and took it to over 11,500 new cases in a single day. It’s worse.
It’s worse because Republican Gov. Greg Abbott was not blindsided. This is happening fully two months after the events that threatened to overwhelm New York, and at a point where Texas is conducting a fairly robust—if not always well-directed—testing program. Abbott can’t claim he doesn’t know how fast COVID-19 can spread, or how quickly it can strain the greatest local health care facilities in the nation, or how a state can go from what seems all-under-control to refrigerated trucks backing up to morgues. He’s seen it. We all have.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/23/1955234/-What-happened-with-COVID-19-in-NY-was-a-tragedy-what-s-happening-in-TX-AZ-and-FL-is-a-crime?detail=emaildkre
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