New York City Seeded Nationwide Coronavirus Outbreak

Look what is on the front page of The New York Times.

New York Times:

“New York City’s coronavirus outbreak grew so large by early March that the city became the primary source of new infections in the United States, new research reveals, as thousands of infected people traveled from the city and seeded outbreaks around the country.

The research indicates that a wave of infections swept from New York City through much of the country before the city began setting social distancing limits to stop the growth. That helped to fuel outbreaks in Louisiana, Texas, Arizona and as far away as the West Coast.

The findings are drawn from geneticists’ tracking signature mutations of the virus, travel histories of infected people and models of the outbreak by infectious disease experts. …”

How is Trump going to blame this one on China?

Unlike Wuhan and Hubei province, New York and New Jersey were never quarantined. There was never any shutdown of interstate travel. As a result, New Yorkers have been allowed to spread virus all over the United States. This is the exact opposite of what happened in China in January.

In China, the Chinese military surrounded and locked down Wuhan. The lockdown in Wuhan didn’t end until April 8th. Millions of people fled Wuhan before the lockdown and spread the virus to other cities in China. Those cities were locked down for two weeks to smother new outbreaks. 780 million people were locked down in China in early February.