New Study Reveals That Stay-at-Home Orders Backfired. Here's Why

Last May, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he was shocked to learn that 66 percent of New Yorkers hospitalized for COVID had been staying at home.

"This is a surprise," Cuomo said. "We were thinking that maybe we were going to find a higher percent of essential employees who were getting sick because they were going to work - that these may be nurses, doctors, transit workers. That's not the case."

A year later, a new study sheds light on the mystery.