Why New York Got Hit So Hard
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
At least 21,000 New Yorkers are dead from Covid-19, with a few dozen added to the city’s count every day. The city’s deaths are 10 times those of Los Angeles County’s. They’ve surpassed the 16,000 lives lost in Italy’s hard-hit Lombardy region. Drew Armstrong reviewed the statements of experts, officials, and politicians to better understand the root causes of New York City’s devastating outbreak.
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| 0:33.6 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 83 since coronavirus was declared a global |
| 0:41.3 | pandemic. Today, widespread protests against police violence show no sign of abating and have |
| 0:49.0 | eclipsed COVID-19 as the central issue in the nation. Our main story today, |
| 0:56.1 | New York City bore the brunt of COVID's punishment |
| 0:58.8 | and is now feeling the pain of civil unrest, |
| 1:02.7 | just as it was poised to reopen. |
| 1:06.3 | First, some brief headlines. |
| 1:23.3 | Around the country and the world, there are reminders the pandemic is far from over. |
| 1:28.9 | COVID-19 deaths among Florida residents jumped the most since May 8th. |
| 1:32.7 | Florida began a phased reopening on May 4th. |
| 1:38.8 | Hong Kong extended virus prevention measures after a new cluster of cases, |
| 1:42.2 | and Tokyo's infections spiked. |
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