Until that point, the US had not recorded a single case of coronavirus infection in New York, which seemed improbable to some of the task force members. How could a city as dense and porous as New York not have a single case of the novel virus? “It was like the dog that didn’t bark,” this person told me. “It was a sign to a lot of us that we were way behind the curve. That’s when some of us started to get even more nervous. We were never going to make it.” By the time that New York City reported the first person who was positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection, the City had only conducted 32 tests on
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