It isn’t an exaggeration to state that the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is, in many ways, a New York public health crisis. This is not in any way to belittle the suffering across the nation, but it is hard to overstate the disproportionate role that the Empire State has played in America’s current woes.

According to the latest estimates by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, by August, 67,000 Americans will have perished from this pandemic. The number of deaths in New York is expected...