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Update: March 28, 2020 | 2:55PM
Albany 195
Allegany 2
Broome 23
Cattaraugus 1
Cayuga 2
Chautauqua 5
Chemung 12
Chenango 8
Clinton 12
Columbia 22
Cortland 5
Delaware 8
Dutchess 262
Erie 318
Essex 4
Franklin 4
Fulton 1
Genesee 7
Greene 7
Hamilton 2
Herkimer 9
Jefferson 6
Livingston 5
Madison 19
Monroe 192
Montgomery 5
Nassau 5,537
Niagara 33
New York City 29,766
Oneida 23
Onondaga 129
Ontario 16
Orange 1,101
Orleans 3
Oswego 7
Otsego 7
Putnam 131
Rensselaer 38
Rockland 1,896
Saratoga 96
Schenectady 72
Schoharie 5
Schuyler 1
St. Lawrence 8
Steuben 13
Suffolk 4,138
Sullivan 72
Tioga 4
Tompkins 45
Ulster 128
Warren 13
Washington 6
Wayne 12
Westchester 7,875
Wyoming 7
Total Number of Positive Cases 52,318

https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/county-county-breakdown-positive-cases
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Local Hospital ICUs Nearing Limit as COVID-19 Surges in NYC
By Josefa Velasquez, Ann Choi and Yoav Gonen Additonal Reporting By Rachel Holliday Smith

A key, ever-fluctuating variable in the grim daily calculus facing a city racing against time to treat a rising tide of COVID-19 patients is the number of intensive care unit beds available.

On Thursday, in a city of 8.6 million people, that figure was 307.

Some 850 COVID-19 patients occupied ICU beds in hospitals across New York City that day — up from 525 three days earlier.

The state statistics, obtained by THE CITY, revealed stark numbers that underscored the urgent need for additional hospital capacity as more and more people get sick from coronavirus.

The details came to light as medical centers report being overwhelmed, well before the crisis is expected to hit its peak. State and city officials are scrambling to create more medical treatment space everywhere from CUNY campuses to the Javits Center as they press hospitals to increase the stock of critical care beds.
‘A Decisive Moment’

Without a marked increase in resources, the five boroughs are headed in the next eight days “to a decisive moment for the City of New York,” Mayor Bill de Blasio warned late Friday.

A state hospitalization survey obtained by THE CITY shows that of the 2,011 ICU beds in the city Thursday, just 15% remained available amid a surge of incoming patients.

https://thecity.nyc/2020/03/new-york-hospital-icus-nearing-limit-as-covid-19-surges.html

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A 3rd NYPD member dies of coronavirus after hundreds of officers test positive:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/28/us/nypd-coronavirus-deaths/index.html