Covid-19 in New York
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Seth Barron and Nicole Gelinas discuss the latest developments in New York City's fight against the coronavirus, the impact of the city's lockdown on future growth, and the response of state and local leaders.
As New York continues under lockdown, the effects of the coronavirus outbreak are becoming evident: the city's death toll has passed 1,000, with more than 40,000 confirmed cases. In addition to health-care professionals, essential public employees like the city's transit workers and NYPD officers are falling ill at a troubling rate. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo have responded to the crisis with varying degrees of effectiveness, but the outbreak has revealed a lack of preparedness for a public-health emergency of this scale.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Ten Blocks, the podcast of City Journal. |
| 0:20.0 | This is Seth Barron, your host for today. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm the associate editor at City Journal, and I'm joined by Nicole Jelineas, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor at City Journal. |
| 0:32.5 | Hi, Nicole. |
| 0:33.7 | Hi, Seth. |
| 0:34.9 | We're going to talk today following up on our podcast of two weeks ago about the situation in New York City as we enter our, what, second, third week of pause or lockdown and try to figure out where we're headed. What's your take on things, Nicole? Well, my take is that we have |
| 0:58.7 | settled down into this lockdown for the most part. It was extended both at the state and the |
| 1:06.1 | federal level last week, really, until the end of April. So we are certainly not done with this. I think |
| 1:13.5 | the hope would be that at least soon we would see the endpoint of the lockdown and hopefully |
| 1:21.4 | reach the peak of infections, the peak of hospitalizations, and see these numbers start to come down a bit |
| 1:29.6 | gradually over the next few weeks, just as we've hopefully seen happen in northern Italy, |
| 1:36.2 | and then start to think about how does the city get back to something resembling normal, but obviously still a very acute emergency |
| 1:47.8 | situation with almost 11,000 people hospitalized in New York State. That's up 15% from yesterday, |
| 1:57.5 | over 2,700 people in intensive care, and unfortunately, continuing increase |
| 2:06.4 | in the death toll. The death toll has tripled over four days in New York State, mostly |
| 2:13.8 | in New York City. So a great human toll here, and for those enough, fortunate enough to have escaped the human |
| 2:22.1 | toll so far, a big change in our day-to-day lives. |
| 2:26.8 | How about yourself, Seth? |
| 2:29.0 | Well, yeah. |
| 2:30.1 | I mean, look, things are definitely looking pretty grim for New York City and state. At the same time, you know, now I don't want to sound polyana about this. There are mathematically some indications that we may be close to turning a corner on the spread of new infections. Now, this kind of makes sense. |
| 2:52.0 | If we've been in virtual lockdown for a couple of weeks now, |
| 2:57.6 | now I'm not saying it's been perfect, at least in Manhattan, it seems to be pretty |
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