All other "advanced" countries have tackled the pandemic better than the US. The blue state of New York however, is an exception.
I do not think anyone says New York did a good job initially. On the contrary, they did a terrible job! The record is clear. Quote:
"As ProPublica reported, following Cuomo’s order, “Covid-19 tore through New York state’s nursing facilities, killing more than 6,000 people — about 6 percent of its more than 100,000 nursing home residents.” In Florida, which prohibited such transfers, the virus has so far killed only 1.6 percent of nursing home residents.
Given how Cuomo’s errors contributed to New York’s catastrophe, it’s hard to say how much credit he deserves for eventually rising to the occasion. Still, by the time New York’s cases got to where Arizona’s are now, he at least understood that the state faced calamity and imposed the lockdown that helped bring it back from the abyss."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0…us-coronavirus-trump.html