New York City COVID19 information compared to the United States… by the numbers.
We shut down our economy and put more than 33,000,000 people out of work in order to “flatten the curve”. They said it would take 2 to 3 weeks. That was 8 weeks ago. The curve was flattened in most regions 4 weeks ago.
The five boroughs – that make up NYC – Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island, have a total population 8,390,000.
As of May 24, 2020 New York City has:
- 197,000 cases
- 180,815 recovered
- 16,149 deaths
COVID19 deaths in NYC are 0.19%, less than 2 tenths of 1% of the total population.
The COVID19 survival rate for confirmed cases in NYC is 91.7%
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
The United States COVID19 positive cases death rate is 25.71 per 100,000 residents, that is 2 100ths of 1%.
- Total positive cases of COVID-19 in the United States 1,600,000
- Total deaths from COVID19 in the United States 97,601
- Total recoveries from COVID19 in the United States 1,502,399
The death Rate in the United States for CONFIRMED cases is 6.1%, and the survival rate is 93.9% of confirmed cases.
The death Rate in NYC is 8.1%, survival rate is 91.9% of confirmed cases.
The percentage of total population with COVID19 in the United States is .52%… or 5 10ths of 1%.
The percentage of population in New York City with COVID19 cases is 2.3%.
You are 2 time more likely to contract COVID19 in New York City.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html
New York City is No. 2 in total COVID19 infection rate per population (second only to Marion Ohio). New York City is No. 1 for the highest death rate with 1.62 deaths per 1,000 residents.
7,638 COVID19 deaths happened in NYC nursing homes… which is 47% of the total deaths in New York City.
The data clearly shows that the chances of contracting COVID19 in both the United States and in New York City is exceptionally low. But… if an elderly person contracts COVID19 in NYC their chance of death rises quite a bit.
Not only was our decision on strict lockdowns highly misguided, but Governor Cuomo’s order to move COVID19 patients into nursing homes was deadly.
Let that sink in.
All the data accumulated in the past eight weeks suggests that we should have stuck with our traditional practice during a pandemic of quarantining those who are sick… not the healthy. We should have had the elderly and those with underlying health conditions (comorbidities), stay home while healthy people went to work. Florida did not move people sick with COVID19 into nursing homes, but instead protected the elderly people living in those location. Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio moved COVID19 patients into nursing homes, with a deadly outcome.
For Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio to move people sick with COVID19 into nursing homes is unforgivable given the decades of medical data we know about how much more susceptible the elderly are to viruses. These two elitist arrogant big government loving fools should be thrown out of office.