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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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!
Everyone was Kung Flu flighting
They were funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up and they were chopping them down
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
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.
And they’re getting lower with fewer cars on the highways nowadays.....sarc
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.
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.
Take that, OrangeManBad! You can't keep infected Iranians out of the country, because we're presidents, too!
There’s actually already been a mass exodus, the many got out while the getting out was good.
If ou are not dead in 10 days (likely 7 - 8) you will likely be a recovered patient.
“Quarantine New York City”
Probably the Blob is too big now:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
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.
IL has 585 cases so far and they are running low on supplies?
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.
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.
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.
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