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Coronavirus in N.Y.: ‘Deluge’ of Cases Begins Hitting Hospitals
NY Times ^ | 03-20-2020 | Staff

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: NRx

Judge Lifts Trump’s Iran Travel Ban, Now NYC’s Outbreak Is Due To Travel From Iran
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3826413/posts

JUST SAY NO to the demand for the USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) hospital ship to be sent to NYC. Let their wonderful judge fix their shortage for them!


81 posted on 03/20/2020 8:11:42 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: DannyTN
The numbers that you are quoting are still based on people tested divided by people who have died. They have done a lot of testing in South Korea but it is still a tiny fraction of the total population. And this is a virus where 50% of people infected have no symptoms and another 30% have very mild symptoms. The people getting tested in South Korea are still mostly people with serious symptoms.
82 posted on 03/20/2020 8:11:50 PM PDT by fireman15
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To: God luvs America

Everyone was Kung Flu flighting

They were funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up and they were chopping them down


83 posted on 03/20/2020 8:12:27 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: DennisR

Sure it can, the death rate is deaths / (+). which is always the worst case scenario, however, please feel free to continue to search for the dark cloud for any silver lining


84 posted on 03/20/2020 8:12:40 PM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America)
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To: NRx

Perhaps now is the time to administer the drug, chloroquine, to the sickest patients and observe the outcome. What do they have to lose?

If not, why not?

Here is the chance for babykiller Cuomo to become St. Cuomo.


85 posted on 03/20/2020 8:12:40 PM PDT by 353FMG ( In Trump we trust.)
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To: AndyJackson

And they’re getting lower with fewer cars on the highways nowadays.....sarc


86 posted on 03/20/2020 8:12:41 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: mlo
Still a fear driven, hair on fire over-reaction. And the morons among the population have no problem with 'government' taking over and restricting rights and ruining citizen's lives.

Tell me what justifies these actions? Yes, it sounds like a hell of a nasty bug but the recovery rate is 98%...I actually heard 99.3% on the radio yesterday.

87 posted on 03/20/2020 8:13:34 PM PDT by LibertyWoman
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To: gas_dr
And yet the death rate is an amazing 0.5%, and going down each day. This is a Fearper article plain and simple

Are the hospitals in New York starting to get a deluge of cases or not? Your "death rate" comments are an irrelevancy to whether or not that is true...this is the New York Times as the source, but also matches what is expected with the exponential spread of the pandemic. The "Fearper" meme is just shorthand to be used by those who refuse to discuss things from a basis of reality...as though being cute means things that are happening aren't actually happening.

88 posted on 03/20/2020 8:13:44 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: TigerClaws
Two thumbs up for "Trump Resistance" judges Derrick Watson [D-Hawaii] and Theodore Chuang [D-Maryland].

Take that, OrangeManBad! You can't keep infected Iranians out of the country, because we're presidents, too!

89 posted on 03/20/2020 8:14:03 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

There’s actually already been a mass exodus, the many got out while the getting out was good.


90 posted on 03/20/2020 8:14:08 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: DannyTN

If ou are not dead in 10 days (likely 7 - 8) you will likely be a recovered patient.


91 posted on 03/20/2020 8:14:09 PM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America)
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To: ifinnegan

“Quarantine New York City”

Probably the Blob is too big now:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html


92 posted on 03/20/2020 8:14:46 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: NRx

If there are 8,000 positive cases, the generally-believed rate is that 80% (6,400) have mild symptoms. That leaves 1,600 with more-severe symptoms. Let’s assume these 1,600 all need hospitalization (a big assumption). There are approximately 50 hospitals in NYC - that makes an average of 32 per hospital. Seems doable right now, but it is bound to get worse. How much worse? No one knows.


93 posted on 03/20/2020 8:14:57 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around. God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Slainte

94 posted on 03/20/2020 8:14:58 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
My sister is a nurse in a Chicago suburb and is saying the same thing. No supplies. No protocols. Doctors refusing to enter patient rooms and making the nurses do everything. Management more concerned about covering their asses than supporting their staff. She’s in tears with frustration and overwork. Says she’s quitting hospital work after this is over.

IL has 585 cases so far and they are running low on supplies?

95 posted on 03/20/2020 8:15:01 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Gays can give blood but I can't)
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To: SteveH

Social Distancing is a problem. How do you get other ppl to respect it? I have a plan. Make T shirts that say in big, bold red letters “Tested Positive”. Then below it a large yellow traffic Warning sign or other traffic type sign with the words “Maintain Social Distance”. Should work well in non-concealed carry states.


96 posted on 03/20/2020 8:15:17 PM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Jackson Brown
Yet Lennox Hill hospital in NYC reported yesterday that they have treated a 100+ in patients with Hydroxychloroquine and not one death.

I would really REALLY appreciate a link to this.
97 posted on 03/20/2020 8:15:26 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: trublu; fireman15

South Korea has tested 313,000 people. And identified 8799 confirmed cases. They are not just testing people with symptoms. They’ve cast their testing net very wide.


98 posted on 03/20/2020 8:15:28 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: NRx
“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.”

The problem is obviously with the testing. If we didn’t test, officially, no one would be getting, or dying, from COVID.

The reporter would no longer need to worry, then.

99 posted on 03/20/2020 8:15:35 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: HandyDandy
"I'm puking today"

 face 

with tears of joy face 

with tears of joy face 

with tears of joy face 

with tears of joy

100 posted on 03/20/2020 8:15:57 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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