COVID-19 pandemic in New York
2020 CE.
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The first case of COVID-19 in the U.S. state of New York during the pandemic was confirmed on March 1, 2020, and the state quickly became an epicenter of the pandemic, with a record 12,274 new cases reported on April 4 and approximately 29,000 more deaths reported for the month of April than the same month in 2019. By April 10, New York had more confirmed cases than any country outside the US. As of August 11, 2023, the state has reported 131.3 million tests, with 6,722,301 cumulative cases, and 79,960 deaths. New York had the highest number of confirmed cases of any state from the start of U.S. outbreak until July 22, 2020, when it was first surpassed by California and later by Florida and Texas. Approximately half of the state's reported cases have been in New York City, where around 40% of the state's population lives. Despite the high number of reported cases in March and April, by May 7, New York had reduced the rate of increase of new cases to less than 1% per day, and since June 6 to less than 0.25% per day. Unlike many other states, New York did not see a spike or "second wave" in the daily new case rate during the summer months.
Text from the Wikipedia article COVID-19 pandemic in New York (state), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.