We have this massive concentration of critical cases and deaths in New York and New Jersey. Has anyone considered the after effects of 9/11? We all know that thousands have died of 9/11 lung related diseases but maybe there was a larger population that had damage from the airborne particles but it didn't manifest into a disease. But instead they created enough inflammation for the COVID-19 to stick. Just a thought.
it's a solid question....
But did the ITALIANS or the SPANISH, both with high death rates, go through 9/11?
this virus is the mother of all mothers when it comes to who, what, when, where and how....it's baffling, in many ways....
There may be things unique to Italy or Spain that made them a global hot spot as well. I'm just looking for something unique to the New York/New Jersey area that might explain how such a small geographic area could have nearly half of all US COVID-19 cases.
This virus is totally baffling, in many ways.... the scientists are even baffled by it!
But if I were to take a couple of guesses...
NYC is the number 1 most visited place by foreign and domestic tourists in the USA....Lots of Asians and Europeans travel there for business as well.... So we know the virus likely entered the east coast in a massive way, thru New York....
Scientists now believe this virus is airborne... at first they thought it was like the flu and passed from coughing and sneezing and wet airborne particle from that action.... but then they figured out that people with no symptoms, the A-symptomatic were infectious and passing the virus as well.... through dry air.... just by someone around them, breathing their exhale.... which to me, seems impossible and frightening at the same time!
But the really tight quarters in New York Metro area makes it prime real estate for passing this Corona virus...
Also, that Chinese doctor who was the whistleblower, and eventually died from it, was a healthy 34 year old man.... the reason it killed him but not most other young men is likely due to his multiple exposures to it... I think they call it, viral load.... anyway, he was exposed to the virus so so many times by different patients, that it made him get as sick as he did.... is the claim.... tight quarters with lots of different exposures from different people, could be making New Yorkers viral load, greater.
So, maybe this is why New Yorkers seem to be getting much sicker and dying at greater rates?