ABC News
“COVID devastated New York, but here’s why it fared better in the fall surge”
Friday, February 26, 2021,
By Lily Datz
David Larsen, associate professor of public health in Falk College, was quoted in the ABC News story “.” Larsen, an epidemiologist who studies infectious disease, attributes much of New York’s curve flattening to the residents of the state and the hard work of public officials. “People were willing to wear masks and take the virus seriously and that led to the drop in the summer,” Larsen says, but he notes that the state and its residents must remain vigilant in fighting the spread.