Posted on 03/07/2020 10:50:26 AM PST by RummyChick
Governor Andrew Cuomo has declared a state of emergency in New York, with 76 residents testing positive to coronavirus.
The declaration came Saturday afternoon, with the governor revealing the number of cases in the state has almost doubled in the past 24 hours alone. On Friday, 44 people were confirmed to have the disease.
'We have now been testing around the clock,' Cuomo stated at a press conference, revealing that the number of cases in Westchester County has ballooned to 57.
23 new cases in the county have been uncovered since Friday, and all are related to the New Rochelle lawyer who was diagnosed as the state's first case earlier this week.
There are now also 11 cases in New York City - up seven from yesterday.
Disturbingly, there are also signs of wider spread, with two cases now confirmed in Saratoga County in the northeast of the state - hundreds of miles away from any other cases.
Meanwhile, a Queens man who drives for taxi or ride-hailing services has now tested positive for coronavirus after showing up to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in the borough on Tuesday.
The situation has prompted 40 doctors and nurses to go into self-quarantine amid fears they have now been exposed. The man is now in isolation at the hospital.
Investigators are now trying to piece together who he might have driven around the city in a bid to contain a possible spread.
Cuomo says a state of emergency is able to free up $30 million that will be used for testing and the purchase of protective gear for healthcare workers.
However, he claimed that, at present, there is no need to cancel large gatherings in the state.
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I hope the Zombie Apocalypse starts in Albany, New York.
We know a lot of people are going to get it.
What we STILL don’t know is the mortality rate for those who aren’t elderly or sick.
That’s an important piece of the puzzle.
Some are saying it’s a percentage of 1 percent
Pope Francis will deliver Sunday prayers by livestream to keep crowds away from Saint Peter’s Square as Italy battles coronavirus
The virus is going to have to burn itself out.
Gov’t can only slow it down.
Sounds like a class action suit.
In an alarming development, Dr Nattino said younger patients were being affected, saying the ages of patients ranged from 46 to 83 with only a small number having important underlying conditions.
He added: “The last days are showing a younger population involved as if the elderly and weaker part of the population crashed early and now younger patients, having exhausted their physiological reserves, come to overcrowded, overwhelmed hospitals with little resources left.”
SI needs to shut the borders down. NOW!
This is my opinion too. Kudlow should STFU with his claims that it is contained.
It’s not
And that kind of attitude is going to backfire on Trump
How many geriatric people die of the common cold each year?
Starts with the sniffles, then it becomes aspiration pneumonia, which is bacterial, not viral.
With this coronavirus there are so many unknowns, and Trump’s enemies are using it to the fullest extent.
That doesn’t answer my question AT ALL.
I NEVER ASKED how many are getting it in that age group.
I asked HOW MANY ARE DYING that get it.
But I see now that the people posting about coronavirus on here are ONLY gonna post articles that incite panic :)
So I will avoid clicking on them going forward.
Have a good one!
I wasnt trying to answer your question. I am just posting things..sometimes it goes to the person who is in the window of my laptop
“However, he claimed that, at present, there is no need to cancel large gatherings in the state.”
Well, there goes the good job he WAS doing.
‘Keeping people on board will be a death sentence!’ Relatives of passengers on coronavirus-hit Grand Princess cruise stranded off San Francisco plead for it to be evacuated - as one traveler is airlifted off due to medical emergency
So, boy genius is not as good as he tries to tell people he is. How quick will he blame this on Trump?
The Market was slow to incorporate the future and is still jumping about in estimating the impact.
An additional flu like virus strain is not helpful going forward for humanity.
Coronavirus could be spread by air-conditioning and may be more contagious than previously thought, scientists believe after finding traces of the virus in hospital air-duct
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