The article addresses testing: New York is testing far more people — three times as many as California — and therefore identifying more cases... But testing a

The article addresses testing: New York is testing far more people — three times as many as California — and therefore identifying more cases... But testing alone doesn’t explain why New York’s case counts are so much higher than California’s, or why the rate is spiraling up so fast on the East Coast. The death toll in New York was four times higher than California’s — 210 deaths to 51, as of Tuesday evening. Deaths tend to be a much more reliable marker of the spread of the disease than cases because determining how someone died is not dependent on the availability of testing kits.