GLO:nyo/12oct20:37n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): . gl TEN MONTHS SINCE China acknowledged the first outbreak of the coronavirusin Wuhan, and seven months since the who declared it a global pandemic,there's nowhere on the planet that's been hit harder than New York State, wherealmost 33,000 people have died, most of them during a terrifying surge inMarch and April. We spokein early October, when a small rise in cases was beginning to appear, as had beenforecast since the start of the pandemic, and the presidential campaign was taking whatseemed like a decisive turn away from Trump, Cuomo's frequent pandemic sparring partner. Yet I look around, especiallyat our peer countries in Europe, and I seethe U.S. has fared poorly compared withmost of our peer countries but not categoricallyworse in deaths per million,for instance.9 Outside the countries ofEast and Southeast Asia, there are veryfew success stories anywhere. In March, as it became clear thatthe federal government did nothave enough medical equipmentand protective gear to go around,President Trump instructedgovernors to procure ventilators,gloves, and respirator masks ontheir own. [Extracted from the article]