The worst of the coronavirus outbreak will hit New York state faster and harder than previously thought, Governor Andrew Cuomo said
NEW YORK - New York state suffered another quick and brutal rise in the number of coronavirus cases on Tuesday as officials raced to make more hospital beds available and the World Health Organization said the United States could become the next epicenter of the global pandemic.
The expected need for hospital beds in New York state at the peak of the outbreak has spiraled to 140,000, Cuomo said, compared with 110,000 previously projected. Only 53,000 beds are said to be available now. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker said he had told Trump his state needed “millions of N95 masks and hundreds of ventilators just in the near term” and that the president had promised help.
“We thought it might get worse before it gets better and I’m afraid that we are right,” Lamont told a news briefing.
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