Why NYC failed on coronavirus response while Seattle succeeded: report

[corbe]

Why NYC failed on coronavirus response while Seattle succeeded: report

By Nolan Hicks and Aaron Feis

April 27, 2020 | 6:32pm | Updated

While public-health officials were getting in front of the coronavirus in Seattle, Mayor Bill de Blasio dragged his feet and openly bickered with Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York, according to a report highlighting the night-and-day disparity between the cities’ responses.

“It feels like we might have stopped the tsunami before it hit,” Dr. Francis Riedo, the medical director for infectious disease at a hospital in suburban Kirkland, Wash. told The New Yorker for a piece published Sunday.
Despite their outbreaks emerging at around the same time, Washington had seen fewer than 700 fatalities as of last week, as compared to more than 17,000 in the Empire State.

“I don’t want to tempt fate, but it seems like it’s working,” Riedo told the magazine. “Which is what makes it so much harder when I look at places like New York.”

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https://nypost.com/2020/04/27/why-new-york-failed-on-coronavirus-while-seattle-succeeded-report/

[jmyrlefuller]

But Seattle hasn't really succeeded at all. New York has turned their infections around. Seattle, despite putting their measures into effect days before New York, is still spreading.