COVID-19 update: NY Gov. Cuomo advances the timeline to re-open. Testing 3x = cases up. HY issuance 2nd strongest week ever

COVID-19 remains a global crisis and we realize that many people need to keep up with COVID-19 developments, particularly since we are moving into the more critical stage ("restart economy"), so feel free to share our commentary to anyone who has interest. The developments over the weekend have been mostly positive.  Most notably, it looks like the improvements for NY state have been sustained sufficiently for Gov Cuomo to mention that some parts of the state may open after May 15th.  This is quite a milestone.  Now the phased opening would be for manufacturing and construction and more likely in Upstate and Central NY.  Not NYC at this time.   NYC with >18,000 cases per 1mm residents did 3X worse than Lombardy, Italy (see chart below).  Recall, Italy was the first developed nation to see a COVID-19 outbreak, and the northern region was overwhelmed.  Yet, NYC managed to see confirmed case prevalence 3X worse than Lombardy. But the other development over the past few days has been a significant increase in US testing to about 300,000 per day, 3X what it was just a week ago.  And this figure could surge in the coming weeks as more testing capabilities and capacity are added.  But the consequence of this is "confirmed cases" are ...

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