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Some New Yorkers fleeing the city may have brought the virus along.
In the quaint seaside resort of Cape May at New Jersey’s southern tip, a 30-year-old man from New York City was the county’s first confirmed case of the coronavirus.
In Greene County, N.Y., home to the Catskill Mountains, the first four confirmed virus cases were all people from New York City.
As the coronavirus exploded in New York City, leaders and residents of areas that are seasonal refuges and second homes for city dwellers called for outsiders to stay away. fearing that an influx of people could strain resources, from supermarkets to parks, and overwhelm small hospitals.
“If I was in New York City and I had a place up here, I’d be here,” said Shaun Groden, the Greene County administrator. “But I’m not going to come here with some false sense of security that once you get upstate, you’ll be taken care of. It’s just the opposite.”
Throughout the region, the virus seems to be mostly following a logical pattern of infection, growing outward from its epicenter of New York City.
But there have also been bursts of flulike symptoms in areas where New Yorkers have summer homes, like the Adirondacks, the Jersey Shore, the Catskills and the Hamptons.
And preliminary data and anecdotal evidence suggest that fleeing New Yorkers may have hastened the virus’s spread.
Official death count overlooks those who die outside the hospital.
Fire Department data shows that 1,125 patients were pronounced dead in their homes or on the street in the first five days of April, more than eight times the 131 deaths recorded during the same period last year.
Paramedics are not testing those they pronounce dead for the virus, so it is almost impossible to say how many of the people were infected with it. Some may have been tested before they died and either were not admitted to hospitals or were discharged.
But the huge jump in the numbers suggests that the virus was involved in many of the recent deaths.
“The driver of this huge uptick in deaths at home is Covid-19,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday. “And some people are dying directly of it, and some people are dying indirectly of it, but it is the tragic ‘X’ factor here.”
Nearly 120 morgue workers and soldiers are working around the clock to retrieve the bodies of up to 280 people a day who are dying at home in New York City, many of them probably having succumbed to the coronavirus without being counted in the official death toll.
The chief medical examiner’s office is overseeing the grisly task, with the help of more than 100 soldiers from the U.S. Army, the National Guard and the Air National Guard, officials said. Many of those involved in the operation have special training in processing human remains.
Fifteen four-person teams are working during each 12-hour shift, driving mostly rented vans, said Aja Worthy-Davis, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office.
A city without traffic has cleaner air and more speeders.
The coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged New York has essentially erased much of the traffic in the country’s largest city, with traffic at the city’s busiest bridges and tunnels plunging nearly 60 percent.
There are upsides to this: The air is cleaner, with levels of particulate matter, which contribute to health problems including lung cancer and heart attacks, down by as much as 35 percent across the city.
And the relatively few motorists left on the road — many of whom are performing essential work — can get where they’re going a lot fast: rush-hour speeds on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway have soared to 52 miles per hour, from 13 m.p.h.
But a lot more people appear to be speeding: even with far fewer people on the roads, automated speed cameras issued 24,765 speeding tickets citywide on March 27, nearly double the 12,672 tickets issued daily a month earlier, according to city data.
The extraordinary shift offers a glimpse of what one of the world’s most gridlocked cities could look like without congestion and provides an unexpected case study for transportation officials and experts wrestling with how to manage limited street space for ever more users, including ride-share drivers and delivery trucks hauling Amazon boxes.
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Reporting was contributed by Matthew Haag, Winnie Hu, Andy Newman, Sarah Maslin Nir, William K. Rashbaum and Tracey Tully.
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