Severity varies greatly by region. Compare NYC and the surrounding areas to the USA as a whole: https://outbreak.info/epidemiology?location=USA%3BMETRO_35620%3B

Severity varies greatly by region. Compare NYC and the surrounding areas to the USA as a whole: https://outbreak.info/epidemiology?location=USA%3BMETRO_35620%3BCITY_US-NY_NYC&log=false&variable=confirmed_numIncrease&xVariable=date&fixedY=false https://outbreak.info/epidemiology?location=USA%3BMETRO_3562... You can see that NYC is way down from the mid-April peak, but the USA as a whole is tailing off much more slowly as new outbreaks elsewhere offset the declines in areas that were initially hit hard. (But still, note that "way down" for NYC is still around 500 new cases per day.)