New York became 'Grand Central Station' for COVID-19, carried infections across the US: report

The COVID-19 outbreak in New York became the primary source of infections around the United States, with researchers saying the state acted like the Grand Central Station by carrying the virus across many directions.

The New York Times reported that New York City's coronavirus outbreak grew so large by early March that the city became the primary source of new infections in the United States, as thousands of infected people travelled from the city and seeded outbreaks around the country.

New York acted as the Grand Central Station for this virus, with the opportunity to move from there in so many directions, to so many places, said David Engelthaler, head of the infectious disease branch of the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Arizona.

New York State now has 323,978 confirmed virus cases and is still seeing an average of over 200 deaths daily from COVID-19, from a peak of nearly 800 fatalities every day.

The report said that the research indicates that a wave of infections