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I mean... probably?  I sure would love to think so!

But there are clearly some factors that are resulting in differences in the outcomes from place to place.  What are they?  Characterizing and understanding those factors is incredibly important in our ability to fight this thing, with the fewest possible deaths and serious cases.

Texas is warmer, more spread out, and smaller than Alaska.  So I get what you're saying. Different than New York.  So best I could find was that 2.9K died in Texas from the flu in 2017, while New York had 4.7K flu deaths.  Pretty significant.

So what you're saying is:  No matter what, all things being equal, NEW YORK would probably have it worse than Texas.

Yeah, probably.  I know 5 people that have/had coronavirus.  It's bad in our area.

I suspect NYC was hit by travelers from Europe returning not knowing they were contagious at the time, and perhaps visitors.

NYC is a lot denser than even SF per unit area, and subway usage is obviously very prevalent, as are cabs and Uber etc.  A lot of folks living in NYC don't have personal cars (more than SF).  LA is spread out, as is Seattle (which is pretty dense downtown).  I don't think any place in the US has the population density of Manhattan.

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all citys with major subway systems which were never shut down are hot spots

Certainly could be a contributing factor.  I think it's something we need to understand, deeply, in addressing both this crisis, and the next one.

I suspect NYC was hit by travelers from Europe returning not knowing they were contagious at the time, and perhaps visitors.

And subway riders not using masks/sanitzer,distancing

Right now, some of the experts are saying they don't see evidence that warmer weather is going to be a major factor.  But perhaps they're wrong and it is? 

I've been watching Malaysia more closely because it's an important part of the supply chain for my industry, and when their cases started jumping it was hot as hell there. They're on lockdown right now, which seems to have cut the spread well, but the heat didn't seem to stop the spread.

I have a customer in Singapore and they just extended their lockdown to June 1. It's hot, humid, and rainy there, and yet their cases have spiked hard in the last 1-2 weeks. 

So I don't see the evidence that this will be stopped by warmer weather.

(Note: this also may affect the argument regarding why CA/TX are doing well and NY/NJ/MI/IL are doing so much worse... I'm not sure we can look to weather as the answer.)

Sunlight supposedly

Problem is that UV may kill it on surfaces (UV from the sun kills a lot of things), but probably isn't fast-acting enough to control it regarding actual suspended droplets in the air. 

But... I guess this means they can re-open all the tanning salons!