[Eduard]

Or a data input mistake.

[pvaldes]

... a third option could be a deliberate release in a specific point. Viruses can't read.

This is just speculation, obviously

[chimeracoder]

> Or a data input mistake.

It's not - Corona Park and Elmhurst were the two hardest-hit neighborhoods from near the very beginning.

[bogomipz]

No Corona Park(it's actually Flushing Meadows-Corona Park) is the name of an actual park, named in part after Corona one of the the neighborhoods it's located in.

[samspenc]

Can confirm that Corona is an actual place in the Queens borough of New York City.