Attention shifts to New York City as it becomes the epicenter of COVID-19 cases within America. The second week of April delivers a sharp spike in COVID-19 cases and deaths across the city. Combining these spikes, two inconspicuous dates emerge: April 9 & 10th, 2020.

Daily count of new COVID-19 cases in New York

Daily count of new COVID-19 deaths in New York

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/new-york-covid-cases.html

New York City morgues are soon overwhelmed as the city struggles to maintain sanitary conditions. Until December 2020, this is the deadliest week in America from COVID-19 (factually, COVID-19 EUA vaccines began being publicly administered on December 14th, 2020). While ongoing review and analysis of the greater data continue fleshing out the accuracy of earlier vaccine promises, history once again proves the most reliable in discovering the truth.