Covid-19: New York virus deaths exceed 4,000, topping toll for 9/11 attacks April 07, 2020 at 04:23PM

COVID-19's toll in New York City is now more than 1,000 deaths higher than that of the deadliest terror attack on US soil, which killed 2,753 people in the city and 2,977 overall, when hijacked planes slammed into the twin towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field on September 11, 2001.