For NYC the answer is “no”. 4,500 ≈ average deaths per month in 2017 [1] 6,125 = confirmed COVID-19 deaths from 2020-04-01 through 2020-04-15 [2] [1]: https:

For NYC the answer is “no”. 4,500 ≈ average deaths per month in 2017 [1] 6,125 = confirmed COVID-19 deaths from 2020-04-01 through 2020-04-15 [2] [1]: https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/vital_statistics/2017/table32c.htm https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/vital_statistics/2017/t... [2]: https://github.com/nychealth/coronavirus-data/blob/master/case-hosp-death.csv https://github.com/nychealth/coronavirus-data/blob/master/ca... Note that 6,125 doesn’t include COVID-19 deaths or non COVID-19 deaths, and is for the first half of April only.