A recent analysis suggests that New York City hospitals will face 3,000 cases by Tuesday, 8,000 by Friday and will surpass 15,000 by early the following week
NEW YORK — New York City’s hospitals are girding themselves for a flood of new coronavirus cases next week, even as the city’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, on Friday lauded the statewide clampdown Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued Friday.
After the mayor had for days called on the state to institute a shelter-in-place order, Cuomo took the plunge and, while dismissing the term "shelter in place" as alarmist, took many of the measures de Blasio had sought. All nonessential businesses were ordered to close, nonessential gatherings were prohibited and New Yorkers were told to stay in their homes except for necessary sojourns or solitary exercise.
A recent analysis from economist and data scientist Michael Donnelly suggests that hospitals will face 3,000 cases by Tuesday, 8,000 by Friday and will surpass 15,000 by early the following week.The mayor said Friday that he believes the city is prepared to deal with the crunch through March.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has spent days haranguing the federal government, pleading for three million N95 masks, 50 million surgical masks, 15,000 ventilators and 25 million sets of gowns, gloves and other protective equipment. At a press conference in Washington D.C. Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump said that he was only dealing with Cuomo.
"I don’t like what I’ve seen the last four days. We had been holding steady,” said Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, Friday. “We can, generally speaking, predict where we will be in terms of sick rates at the NYPD. The last four days — it is going up.”
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