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$FILE - In this Wednesday, March 25, 2020, file photo, Los Angeles resident Larnell Brown, 66, wears gloves and a mask as he steps out of his waiting vehicle outside the Crenshaw Christian Center before it opens as a testing site for COVID-19 in South Los Angeles. Los Angeles is half the size of New York City but has a disproportionately small fraction of the coronavirus cases and deaths as the nation's largest city. The same goes for California when compared with New York state as a whole, which is the current epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)$

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 25, 2020, file photo, Los Angeles resident Larnell Brown, 66, wears gloves and a mask as he steps out of his waiting vehicle outside the Crenshaw Christian Center before it opens as a testing site for COVID-19 in South Los Angeles. Los Angeles is half the size of New York City but has a disproportionately small fraction of the coronavirus cases and deaths as the nation's largest city. The same goes for California when compared with New York st…

March 27, 2020

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Coronavirus cases hit 2 largest US cities differently

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles recorded its first case of coronavirus five weeks before New York City, yet it's New York that is now the U.S. epicenter of the disease.