**NEW YORK'S LOST QUARTER: The Walking Dead's Dead City Shocks With 72-Hour Unreported Collapse**

NEW YORK’S LOST QUARTER: The Walking Dead’s Dead City Shocks with 72-Hour Unreported Collapse

CEO Brief: AMC’s Dead City just revealed New York’s Manhattan quarantine failed within 72 hours due to a single infected subway rat. The city lost half its survivors in the first week. The key business lesson? Your crisis plan is only as strong as your weakest entry point—for NYC, it was a tunnel. For your company, it’s that unpatched software update. The episode is drawing record viewership as business leaders search for parallels in supply chain disruption and population churn.