Cuomo: New York breaks one-day COVID-19 testing record

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16. I don't think there is anything such as "herd immunity" with this virus

because studies have found that the antibodies start fading within a couple months. The "common cold" (both rhinovirus and coronavirus types) don't offer "herd immunity" either - using a more benign comparison.

I think what happened was that they were able to actually knock much of it "out of the environment" where it could easily be community-spread, plus you have many of the most vulnerable (outside of the unfortunate frontline workers), literally avoiding going out anywhere. I expect there may be many asymptomatic around but they are probably not getting tested and as long as they aren't acting egregiously, they would move past the timeframe for being infectious. The issue however, may be the ubiquitous "traveler" who leaves the state to go to a hotspot and then returns without self-quarantining (which I expect would be most people unfortunately).