"According to Gov. Cuomo [0] New York is now testing more per capita than any place else including China or South Korea"
No - this is not accurate. Both your statement and the statement by Cuomo are not true.
As of last Wednesday, S Korea has done 295 000 people, of ~50M. [1]
As of yesterday, NY has done 45,437 tests for ~20M people.
So Cuomo's statement is looking a little Trumpish, I'm not accusing him of lying, but he's spreading false information which happens to make him look good, he needs to be more accurate.
Also - your statement misinterprets his - the NYC statement says 'any other state' - not 'any other place'. Canada is testing a little bit more widespread than NY, surely there are others.
So NYC is acting, but there's no 'cutting edge' or 'exceptional' response in America of anything right now. S. Korea, Taiwan, Singapore are looking like 'world leaders' here, granted, they have different kinds of systems entirely.
It's possible that some of their other social artifacts, such as 'basic face masks' might actually be responsible for reducing spread. Since 'lockdown' in North America the spread has continued unabated, and in S. Korea, there's no lock-down and they have it under control (though they are doing more testing as well).
There might possibly be something very specific about the spread of the virus that we don't understand, which if we were to be able to focus on, we could be more effective.
No - this is not accurate. Both your statement and the statement by Cuomo are not true.
As of last Wednesday, S Korea has done 295 000 people, of ~50M. [1]
As of yesterday, NY has done 45,437 tests for ~20M people.
So Cuomo's statement is looking a little Trumpish, I'm not accusing him of lying, but he's spreading false information which happens to make him look good, he needs to be more accurate.
Also - your statement misinterprets his - the NYC statement says 'any other state' - not 'any other place'. Canada is testing a little bit more widespread than NY, surely there are others.
So NYC is acting, but there's no 'cutting edge' or 'exceptional' response in America of anything right now. S. Korea, Taiwan, Singapore are looking like 'world leaders' here, granted, they have different kinds of systems entirely.
It's possible that some of their other social artifacts, such as 'basic face masks' might actually be responsible for reducing spread. Since 'lockdown' in North America the spread has continued unabated, and in S. Korea, there's no lock-down and they have it under control (though they are doing more testing as well).
There might possibly be something very specific about the spread of the virus that we don't understand, which if we were to be able to focus on, we could be more effective.
[1] https://fortune.com/2020/03/19/coronavirus-south-korea-test-...