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How New York's missteps let Covid-19 overwhelm the US

By Hannah Kuchler and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
Financial Times·
21 mins to read

This story is part of a major Financial Times series , investigating the global response to the crisis and whether the disaster could have been averted.

City leaders saw the threat but did not act: why arguments and rivalries among politicians and power groups allowed disaster to unfold.

The first event

A deadly quiet

New Rochelle's mayor watched as the National Guard rolled into the commuter hub north of New York City, wearing camouflage that offered no disguise in suburbia.

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