Texas is an even more dramatic example.
29 million people with only 1,734 deaths, and 4 of the 11 largest US cities.
If you scale Norway to Texas on population, you would get 1,000 deaths.
If you scale Finland to Texas, you would get 1,700 deaths.
Texas did as well as Finland with five times the population, with barely any lockdown.
It's the climate. The same reason Greece did so well. The same reason Rome didn't get hit like Milan (when it should have been hit far worse).
It's why all of San Diego County only has 283 deaths with a population of 3.3 million.
And it's why formerly hard hit locations are starting to open up: their temperatures have climbed enough to slow the virus. NYC will be fully open this Summer and yet the virus won't be ravaging the city like it previously did, and this is why.
The Italian doctor - Alberto Zangrillo - that recently made headlines by saying the virus was fading in potency? That's the higher temperatures reducing the potential of the virus to transmit, it's reducing the viral loads they're seeing. We already knew to expect this, that's why numerous experts were predicting the virus would fade as the seasons changed and temps climbed.