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Maine CDC Director Nirav Shah said there are 30 confirmed cases and 12 presumptive positive cases, bringing the total to 42 cases.
Cuomo: New York needs 110,000 hospital beds for coronavirus patients in 45 days and we only have 53,000
Published Wed, Mar 18 202011:40 AM EDTUpdated 20 min ago
Noah Higgins-Dunn
William Feuer
Amanda Macias
New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo said President Donald Trump is sending a floating hospital to help the state manage an onslaught of coronavirus cases expected to surge in the next 45 days.
“Right now, in New York specifically, the rate of the curve suggests that in 45 days we could have up to an input of people who need 110,000 beds that compares to our current capacity of 53,000 beds, 37,000 ICU units, ventilators, which compares to a capacity currently of 3,000 ventilators. That’s our main issue,” Cuomo said at a press conference in Albany on Wednesday.
The Comfort, a vessel transformed from a hulking oil tanker into a 1,000-bed hospital ship, is one of the military’s two floating lifesavers. The Comfort is homeported at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the U.S. military would provide up to 5 million respirator masks and other items of personal protective equipment to safeguard front-line responders, as well as up to 2,000 specialized ventilators.
All these statewide shutdowns are beginning to remind me of GW Bush during the financial crisis, in which he said something to the effect of “I killed capitalism in order to save it.”
As Fury has repeatedly said, “The operation was a success: the patient is dead.” or something to that effect.