Change My Mind

Yes well the US figures look a lot better if you remove New York figures. They are probably the result of infected people from cruise ships as is the case with other cities on the seaboards. Should have quarantined all arriving by sea before February had ended.

While there may be some merit to that you have look across the country to California as a state with multiple large cities and a huge population. They have done an excellent job of 'flattening the curve' I believe their failure is within the government of the state and not the federal government

Yes i still think the prevalent issue was / is local management of the issue.
I just added that information without any full evidence from New york. I read an Australian report on Corona and it was saying that 10% of all Australian cases are a result of infected people arriving on a few cruise ships that arrived after a ban on entry for foreigners had been enacted and that in Sydney where the ships went they had let them dock and disembark. And the relative customs and state authorities are blaming each other. They also said a third of all initial cases where from ships. An example of Mismanagement in a large city also.