'Sadly, the likeliest explanation for the high death rate is the chronically inadequate health care given to minorities and the poor throughout New York City, as in the rest of the country,' writes Kent Sepkowitz for CNNOpinion.
Kent Sepkowitz is a CNN medical analyst and a physician and infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.The state's total of 181,026 cases, as of April 11, is higher than Spain's and Italy's , countries with populations many times larger than New York.'use strict';CNN.Videx=CNN.Videx || {};CNN.Videx.mobile={};CNN.INJECTOR.executeFeature.then {CNN.VideoPlayer.
NYC comptroller: Trump has my mom's blood on his hands 03:26The disease is killing New Yorkers disproportionately. Of the 20,389 deaths in the United States, 8,627, or 42%, have occurred in New York. Its mortality rate is 4.7%, compared with 3.4% in the rest of the country, according to CNN's figures based on data from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
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