One question we do all need to ask tonight is how these numbers have been so far off the mark and how do we safely open up this country as soon as possible . We have a lot of ideas and we will also balance the medical side of this with dr. Oz versus the economic side and getting our lives back to normal. The number of predicted hospitalizations fell from 140,000, 290,000. That same model is predicting the peak is just three days away. Meanwhile the epicenter in new york state, new hospitalizations are roughly half of what they were a week ago and, in four days more patience have been released than have been admitted. Keep in mind the model predicted that the state would need 70,000 hospital beds, over 12,000 icu beds at this point. Instead, new york has only needed 16,500 beds and just over 4,000 icu beds and about at third of the predicted need. In the state of new jersey only three of the state 72 hospitals are at capacity in those states have experienced a surge anywhere near what w
Pandemic. Today dr. Deborah birx said this about emerging hot spots. Watch. We are concerned about the metro area of washington and baltimore and we are concerned about the philadelphia area. Philadelphia. Its interesting that while tom wolf embraced dr. Birxs warning, his numbers paint a much brighter picture in the number of cases ended deaths in pennsylvania today are down from yesterday. But projections about the d. C. , maryland and virginia region become a hot spot appeared to be supported by the numbers from yesterday to today, the area has seen a fairly significant increase in both new cases and deaths. In fact, maryland, and most of this is coming from the baltimore area, has now seen its three deadliest days of the outbreak. Finally california is continuing its trend of flattening the curve with the number of cases and deaths being very study or one solid week now and louisiana, which has been a hot spot, did see its numbers come down today. Tucker . Tucker interesting patchw