From the comments of that Fox article.
Another fake news story.....allow me to explain.
So far there has been 17,000 deaths in the US from the coronavirus, the 1st death was on March 1st.
There have been 41 days of people dying......that is an average of 414 people a day dying of the coronvirus.
Last year during the flu season there were 80,000 deaths and run primarily in December to February.....the average day of deaths to the flu is 888....double what the coronavirus is...does anyone remember the stories of all the dead bodies lying around during the flu season and the struggle to bury them?
When you include all of the deaths in the US for every reason we actually average 7,700 deaths a day.....are we supposed to believe that with an increase of 6% that we can't handle it.
The media including Foxnews should be ashamed of themselves for doing this fake news story.
What homeslice in the comments has failed to take into account is that flu deaths are, more or less, evenly distributed among the population, and existing systems can handle it. That is not true of COVID. Let's do some very simple math:
NYC has a population of 8.6 million. So they represent ~2.7% of the US's 320 mil. Let's say that NYC has a bunch of homeless and is dirty and are over represented in normal flu deaths, and double that.
Using that guys numbers for flu: 80,000 flu deaths*.054 for NYC's share/ (31 days in Dec+31 Days in Jan+29 Days in Feb)=47.5 deaths per day of flu in NYC.
As of today NYC has 7,067 COVID Deaths/41 days of dying=172.36 deaths per day
just from COVID Even if you assume that the normal flu isn't hitting at the same rate, NYC's respiratory disease death rate has quadrupled.
And that's before you take into account stuff like this:
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/massive-spike-in-nyc-cardiac-arrest-deaths-seen-as-sign-of-covid-19-undercounting/2368678/Which is why they are having problems.
People need to remember that the US is a big place, and what they see in one place isn't necessarily indicative of conditions everywhere. Conversely precautions that are appropriate in some places are stupidly overboard in others.