It’s important to keep in mind, in the wake of Governor Cuomo’s March 20 decision to impose a form of shelter-in-place statewide that would take full effect two nights later that this was not about the coronavirus pandemic spiraling, so much as it was our gaining a better handle on how serious it was.
While the number of cases statewide exceeded 7,000—more than 4,400 of them in New York City—by the time he moved off his initial decision not to take that step, it was less about a surge than a dramatic increase in testing that began Wednesday night and included 10,000 tests done beginning late Thursday.
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