In the space of a few days, the United States has become the global hotbed of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, with more than 164,000 cases recorded on Tuesday, March 31 across the country. Especially since this day marks a new stage for the country in this epidemic, since with 3,424 recorded deaths, it exceeds the official toll of China, the first outbreak of new coronavirus. But it is above all a city that crystallizes all concerns: New York (New York, United States), an extremely dense megalopolis of 12 million inhabitants.
Here, the rate of death continues to accelerate. In the megalopolis of the East Coast, which concentrates half of American patients, the virus kills one every three minutes. “So on Tuesday, a hospital is being set up in Central Park, it’s a war-style field hospital, where there were joggers and tourists. A little further, there are lines of ‘waiting in front of stores with rationing “, explains, in duplex from New York, the journalist Agnès Vahramian.
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