"To think that we're in New York City and this is happening," he added. "It's like a third-world country type of scenario. It's mind-blowing." At first, patients skewed toward the 70-plus age group, but in the past week or so there have been a number of patients younger than 50. "I don't think they understand the severity of this disease," the doctor said of the younger patients. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/25/health/coronavirus-covid-hospitals/index.html
New york has highest number of infections per million residents.
If New Yorkers ever left Manhattan maybe they wouldn’t have been so shocked.