Yes, the nation doesn't pay attention to facts & easily duped by hysterics. No state is performing as bad on the Covid-19 metric as New York. And no city as bad as NYC.

USA 14,739
New York 6,268 (43%)
New Jersey 1504

Washington State deserves the praise, not NY. https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1248048004923342849

Allow me to show you the evolution of Covid-10 in Washington State vs New York State. Things got out of control in New York & then Cuomo starts doing his daily briefings (omgosh we are short of ventilators) to distract people of WHY it got out of control (Blasio).

Chart below.

This chart is a spread chart so I just took a Washington vs New York deaths spread.

You can see that Washington got the outbreak first (remember the news?) A lot of deaths & exceeded New York by 42 on 17 March 2020.

But since then, look at it. Trace the steps of both governors.

This's not a political issue. Washington is a blue state & also California. Let's look at CA (Seattle is dense & so is SF & LA with large homeless population):

Newsom declared emergency on 4 March
Blasio told people to "go on about their lives" on 13 March.

Diff? Deaths!