Covid-19: What the Hell Happened In New York?

From Worldometers:

                           Cases          Deaths

New York	33,013	+47	366		32,539	[source] [source] [source] [source] [source]
New Jersey	4,402		62		4,340	[source] [source]
California	3,158	+160	67	+2	3,083	[source] [source]
Washington	2,588		132		2,332	[source] [source] [source] [source]
Michigan	2,295		43		2,247	[source] [source] [source]
Florida	1,977		23		1,954	[source] [source]
Illinois	1,865		19		1,844	[source]
Massachusetts	1,838		15		1,822	[source] [source]
Louisiana	1,795		65		1,730	[source] [source]

Georgia	1,387		47		1,340	[source] [source] [source]
Texas	1,155		15		1,129	[source] [source] [source] [source] [source]

Eight times the number of cases of the state with the next highest total?
More cases than entire countries? France? Or the U.K.?
Triple the number of deaths of Washington state, despite WA's "Say, they're dropping like flies at Life Care Center nursing home" (35 of the 132 deaths)