through the state. you ve been watching it as every state, every county is colored in. we re going to shift resources all across the state to whatever place has that need at that time, and we re going to make sure every hospital has the resources they need to do the normal business. what is fascinating is the normal business has dropped off dramatically for a hospital. why? we canceled all elective surgery. so elective non-critical surgery is not happening. and when we closed down most of society and people are staying home, less people are getting hurt, less bicycle accidents, less crime. so hospitals who are not dealing with covid are seeing very low activity. it s not that we re going to leave any health care facility without adequate equipment.
but they don t need excess equipment now. most of these hospitals put together stockpile. you ll have 50,000 masks. well, 50,000 masks, how long does that last you? five months it lasts me. okay. you don t really need a five-month supply right now. keep a one-month supply, give me four months and god forbid you need it because there s a problem, i ll redeploy it the other way. other wierksz i owe you four months worth of masks. how many ventilators are we talking about going from upstate to downstate? we have to see how many we haven t done that calculation, jesse. if a hospital has you have to go hospital by hospital. how many do you have, how many do you need for the immediate future? ideally how many would you
it s a big deal for us. we re still challenging we still have the challenge of ventilators. we don t have enough, period. this system this situation is very simple now. people come in. they re almost all covid people. ironically, the number of non-covid cases has dropped because so many things are shut down that you don t have the same number of automobile accidents or people getting hit by cars. you don t have the same crime rate, so you don t have the same number of trauma cases coming into a hospital. they are covid cases, and many of them go right to the icu, in the icu you need a ventilator. if you don t have a ventilator, the process stops. we don t have enough ventilators. we re doing everything possible, splitting ventilators, using
here is what some of the professionals are saying this morning about how they see the conditions here. this is life or death. every hospital in the state of new york and across the united states should have the supplies they need. we are afraid for our patients. we are afraid for our families, afraid for our lives. they all fail to protect us, as health care workers, as citizens. they re putting all of us at risk every single day. reporter: we just got a statement from mt. sinai, the largest hospital system in the city, very concerned about this and saying, essentially, we understand the fear and concerns and we will continue to do everything possible to protect our heroes on the front lines. we will not stop until this crisis is over. they say they re moving heaven and earth to try to get supplies not just for the city and the state. this hospital and others, they re looking for private donations.