Cases could overwhelm the healthcare system, jeopardizing thousands of patients. Now, that surge has begun. In a startlingly quick ascent, new york reported today that the state was closing in on 8,000 positive tests, which is about half the cases in the entire country. The number was ten times higher than what was reported earlier this week. New york has ten times as many cases now as it did when we started this week. And part of that is increased testing. The state says they processed 10,000 more coronavirus tests overnight last night. But regardless of whether it reflects increased testing or not, its giving us more information about what new york is coping with. And the state is now close to 8,000 known cases. With more than 1,200 people hospitalized already. There are not infinite beds to put people in in new york hospitals, as they bare the brunt of the first wave of this illness in the United States. And the hospitals in new york, that already do not have enough beds, they also
Hospitals. There are already critical shortages. A bronx hospital is running out of ventilators. In brooklyn, doctors are reusing masks. Thats the headline, and the subhead tonight, of the new york times, heres the lead, quote, for weeks, as the coronavirus has spread across the world, new york officials have warned that a surge of cases could overwhelm the States Health care system. Jeopardizing thousands of patients. Now, that surge has begun. In a startlingly quick ascent, new york reported today the state was closing in on 8,000 positive tests which is about half the cases in the entire country. The number was ten times higher than what was reported earlier this week. New york has ten times as many cases now as it did when we started this week. And part of that is increased testing. The state says they processed 10,000 more coronavirus tests overnight last night. But regardless of whether it reflects increased testing or not, its giving us more information about what new york is co
New york reported today that the case was closing in on t8,00 positive tests. New york has ten times as many cases now as it did when we started this week. And part of that is increased testing. The state says they processed 10,000 more coronavirus tests overnight last night. But regardless of whether it reflects increased testing or not, its giving us more information about what new york is coping with, and the state is now close to 8,000 known cases with more than 1,200 people hospitalized already. There are not infinite beds to put people in in new York Hospitals as they bear the brunt of the first wave of this illness in the United States. And the hospitals in new york that already do not have enough beds, they also do not have the supplies they need to keep hospital workers and doctors and nurses from getting infected themselves. And they of course are the workforce that we must keep alive and uninfected and well enough to be working. As the hospitals fill up and spill over first
Report: See what specialties local hospitals rank in | New Orleans CityBusiness neworleanscitybusiness.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from neworleanscitybusiness.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.