With more than 66,000 coronavirus cases in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pleading for help from health care workers around the country.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, speaks after the arrival of the USNS Comfort, a naval hospital ship with a 1,000 bed-capacity.New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, speaks after the arrival of the USNS Comfort, a naval hospital ship with a 1,000 bed-capacity.More than 1,200 people have now died of the coronavirus in New York, but the worst of the outbreak has yet to arrive, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Monday.
"I am asking health care professionals across the country, if you don't have a health care crisis in your community, please come help us in New York right now," Cuomo said from a makeshift hospital at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan set to receive its first patients on Monday."We need relief."
"That's a lot of loss. That's a lot of pain. That's a lot of tears," Cuomo said."That's a lot of grief that people all across this state are feeling."on Monday to help free up room in the city's hospitals to handle those who have become sick from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
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