New York City schools are closed and restaurants move to takeout and delivery only

New York City schools are closed and restaurants and bars will be delivery and take-out only as the City That Never Sleeps takes drastic steps to stop the spread of coronavirus.

After days of resisting such a move, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said public schools in New York City and in Westchester County and on Long Island would close Monday. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio described the decision to close school for 1.1 million students as"extraordinarily painful.

— Andrew Cuomo March 16, 2020 At the same time, New York officials are working to expand hospital beds, ventilators and health care supplies to absorb these impending cases."I believe on any projection that that flattening of the curve is not going to be enough," Cuomo said."I don't see it as a curve. I see it as a wave. And the wave is going to crash onto our hospital system.

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