JOHN HINDERAKER OVER AT POWERLINE BLOG HELPS US UNDERSTAND WHY NEW YORK CITY IS SUCH A HOT SPOT FOR CORONAVIRUS. Did the Shutdown of New York City Fail?

It would be easy to blame New York City’s disastrous performance on incompetent leadership from Governor Andy Cuomo, Mayor Bill DeBlasio, and the city’s leadership team generally. But there are specific reasons why New York poses larger challenges than any other metro area, as I noted here. It is considerably more densely populated than any other U.S. city. More important, it has ten times the public transportation ridership of any other city, overwhelmingly on subways. For obvious reasons, public transportation is suspect number one when we are looking for virus transmission sites.