The coronavirus epidemic is still making the headlines in the United States where there are, at this time, 12,700 victims in the country, including almost half in the state of New York (5,000), plus 1,200 in the neighboring state of New Jersey. The country’s most important home is on the east coast.
This March 22, containment was put in place throughout New York State by Governor Andrew Cuomo, and since then the city has lived to the rhythm of overwhelmed hospitals, with queues stretching in front of stores (distancing social oblige), acts of generosity or disobedience …
How is this city organizing itself in the face of the epidemic? What is the image of New York and the real importance to the rest of the country? Who is Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York State, who is now predicted to have a national fate?
To follow the American presidential race, Slate.fr has partnered with la newsletter «Time to Sign Off» (TTSO) and to French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) to offer the podcast every Wednesday Trump 2020, with Laurence Nardon, an IFRI researcher and specialist in the United States, and Romain Dessal, founder of TTSO.
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