The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort passes lower Manhattan on its way to docking in New York, Monday, March 30, 2020. The ship has 1,000 beds and 12 operating rooms that could be up and running within 24 hours of its arrival on Monday morning. It’s expected to bolster a besieged health care system by treating non-coronavirus patients while hospitals treat people with COVID-19. AP Photo/Seth Wenig) The trend lines are as stark as they are puzzling: Daily COVID-19 infections in New York have plunged by more than 90% from their mid-April peak, while California’s new cases have soared tenfold during that time. New York, a coronavirus horror in the spring, has since won praise for corralling the contagion. California, a model for its first-in-the-nation statewide stay-home order to slow the virus’s spread, is now a cautionary tale as it reverses reopenings in a struggle to contain outbreaks. Th. . .
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