Posted on 03/20/2020 7:28:07 PM PDT by NRx
New York State’s long-feared surge of coronavirus cases has begun, thrusting the medical system toward a crisis point.
In a startlingly quick ascent, officials reported on Friday that the state was closing in on 8,000 positive tests, about half the cases in the country. The number was 10 times higher than what was reported earlier in the week.
In the Bronx, doctors at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center say they have only a few remaining ventilators for patients who need them to breathe. In Brooklyn, doctors at Kings County Hospital Center say they are so low on supplies that they are reusing masks for up to a week, slathering them with hand sanitizer between shifts.
Some of the jump in New York’s cases can be traced to significantly increased testing, which the state began this week. But the escalation, and the response, could offer other states a glimpse of what might be in store if the virus continues to spread. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Friday urged residents to stay indoors and ordered nonessential businesses to keep workers home.
State officials have projected that the number of coronavirus cases in New York will peak in early May. Both the governor and Mayor Bill de Blasio have used wartime metaphors and analogies to paint a grim picture of what to expect. Officials have said the state would need to double its available hospital beds to 100,000 and could be short as many as 25,000 ventilators.
As it prepares for the worst-case projections, the state is asking retired health care workers to volunteer to help. The city is considering trying to turn the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan into a makeshift hospital.
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And yet the death rate is an amazing 0.5%, and going down each day. This is a Fearper article plain and simple
8000 positive out of how many tests?
What gets sick in New York, stays in New York.
One dying every hour.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/coronavirus-killing-more-than-a-person-an-hour-in-nyc/
Anyone could test positive without any symptoms it doesn’t really matter
close all of the bridges (social distancing works!!).
“doctors at Kings County Hospital Center say they are so low on supplies that they are reusing masks for up to a week, slathering them with hand sanitizer between shifts”
NYT and I’m calling bullshit. And furthermore someone needs to take a hard fall for this BS
Exactly. The real number of infections is likely ten times that... and growing.
Either the hospitals are getting a deluge or they aren't. The death rate doesn't change that.
Would be a shame if the NYSlimes couldn’t get a ventilator and expired, wouldn’t it ?
Again, not relevant. These cases are hitting they hospital or they aren't. Number of tests doesn't change that.
A lot of these people are not in good shape. Obesity, terribly unhealthy diet, asthma. The city housing projects have many residents in the population most at risk. I would not be surprised to see a fatality rate rise and a hospitalization rate increase dramatically.
There’s a heavy taint of politics involved, no doubt. However, if you were in my demographic, you would be doing whatever you could to avoid catching this China virus.
Damn shame. I would finally say a prayer for them.
Quarantine New York City
That is the hotspot. It will travel from there otherwise.
I know with the shortage of masks, the CDC issued a protocol for reusing masks. “Slathered with hand sanitizer” sounds like a stretch.
How many are illegals taking a bed?
And presumably they are hitting the hospitals because of worrying symptoms.
There are actually three levels - how many showing up with symptoms that require test and triage.
How many require admission.
How many require ICU.
“Start spreading the flus......”
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