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New York City (NYC) was the first major epicentre of COVID-19 in the USA, largely because of its population size, density, and location as a commercial and tourist hub (Angel et al. in The coronavirus and the cities, 2020). Discrepancies between the mayoral, state and federal responses defined both public messaging and policy responses aimed at containing infection and preventing deaths. Mayor Bill de Blasio publicly criticised the response on the federal level led by the Trump administration, while ongoing disagreements between de Blasio and New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo contributed to delays in instituting stay-at-home orders; this substantially increased the number of cases and deaths throughout the city (Shaman in Differential effects of intervention timing on COVID-19 spread in the United States, 2020).
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Howden-Chapman, A., Olivotto, V. (2023). United States of America: New York City and COVID-19. In: Howden-Chapman, P., Wilhelm Gatzweiler, F., Cooper, R., Luginaah, I. (eds) Cities Under COVID-19: A Systems Perspective. Urban Health and Wellbeing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8163-0_16
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