New modeling from Northeastern University suggests that there were around 10,700 cases of COVID-19 in New York City on March 1, the day New York confirmed its first case
Flowers left near the temporary morgue at the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center on April 22 in Brooklyn. Photo: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images As of Thursday morning, there have been more than 263,754 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in New York, including more than 138,435 in New York City. More than 15,740 people with COVID-19 have died in the state, not including the deaths of people with probable cases.
Cuomo also told Trump that the Navy hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, is no longer needed in New York. “We all agreed that at this current rate, we don’t need the Comfort anymore,” Cuomo said. “Whoever needs it, they should have it.” De Blasio announces ticker-tape parade for health-care workers, at some point Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday morning that concerts, street fairs, and parades are coming back to the New York City. But before they do, he said, the city will celebrate in a bit of a counterintuitive way — with a giant parade.
New York nurses sue the state, hospitals over protective gear The largest nursing union in the state filed suit again two hospital systems and the New York Department of Health on Monday, “alleging that dangerous work guidelines and protective gear shortages exacerbated the spread of the novel coronavirus,” the Wall Street Journal reports. The suit says nurses were not given enough masks and gowns and were forced to re-use items, getting them and family members sick.
Nor are deaths correlated with public transit use. The epidemic began in the city’s northern suburbs. The city’s per capita fatalities are identical to those in neighboring Nassau County, home of Levittown, a typical suburban county with a household income twice that of New York City. True, New York City apartments are crowded. The share of housing units with more than one occupant per room is almost 10 percent. But that number is 13 percent in the city of Los Angeles.
Trump goes after Cuomo again The president tweeted attacks at Governor Cuomo on Friday after hearing the governor ruled out reopening the state without additional federal aid and more widespread testing for the coronavirus. The gist of Trump’s comments was that he didn’t think Cuomo was showing enough gratitude for the federal government’s assistance.
The $89.3 billion budget, which de Blasio said focuses on “health, safety, food, and shelter,” is $6 billion less than the $95.3 billion preliminary budget he presented in January. The city projects to lose $7.4 billion in tax revenue over the next two fiscal years, he said. City pools are among the cuts in de Blasio’s new budget. All of the city’s outdoor pools will stayed closed this summer, saving the city $12 million.
The New York City death toll jumps by almost 3,800 owing to new counting measures. Last week, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the NYC Health Department announced they would coordinate to “include into their reports deaths that may be linked to COVID but not lab confirmed that occur at home.” On Tuesday, that number was debuted: Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot confirmed that the city will now add an additional 3,778 deaths to the tally.
Cuomo and Trump are back at it A day after Governor Cuomo said President Trump “has delivered for New York,” the on-again, off-again rivals have begun a new spat. At issue this time is Trump’s claim that he has “total” authority when it comes to relaxing social-distancing orders in the states. Cuomo has suggested that a plan for easing out of social distancing in New York would involve widespread testing and a gradual widening of what it means to be an essential worker. “You’ll start to open that valve on economic activity,” he said Monday, “and you’ll turn that valve very slowly, reopening the economy, more essential workers.
Nearly 200 babies have arrived since the beginning of March, according to [Dr. Erroll Byer Jr., chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the Brooklyn Hospital Center]. Twenty-nine pregnant or delivering women have had suspected or confirmed cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. They have been kept separate from other patients, and medical workers wear protective clothing when attending to them.
“You can’t make a decision just within New York City, without coordinating that decision with the whole metropolitan region, because it all works together,” Cuomo said during his daily coronavirus press conference. De Blasio said the next school year would be the most important school year in New York City’s history. New York State has more cases than any country other than the U.S. With at least 161,807 confirmed cases, New York State now has more confirmed coronavirus cases than any country outside the United States. Spain’s 157,022 confirmed cases and Italy’s 143,626 are the second and third most, respectively.
The coronavirus is hitting disabled New Yorkers harder than most A devastating report in the Times about the disproportionate effect of COVID-19 includes these stats: The racial disparity of COVID-19 deaths In major cities across the country, statistics have shown COVID-19 deaths hitting communities of color particularly hard. Mayor de Blasio released numbers Wednesday that show that New York City is no exception. More than a third of the deaths have been Hispanic, while 28 percent have been black, 27 percent white, and 7 percent Asian.
How many are dying at home? WNYC’s Gwynne Hogan tried to figure out how many people who succumbed to the coronavirus have not been counted because they died at home, or died before paramedics could transport them to a hospital. It may be a lot: Cuomo said it’s unclear what will happen after the peak. Cases could begin dropping off or there could be more of a plateau effect, in which new cases and death rates remain flat.
In his press conference Monday, Governor Cuomo denied knowing anything about this. “I’ve heard a lot of wild rumors, but I have not heard anything about the city burying people in parks,” he said. Crime is way down Though burglaries of New York City businesses have increased by 75 percent since Mayor de Blasio declared a state of emergency, crime at large has sunk dramatically. According to data from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, felony misdemeanor cases from March 18 to March 24 dropped by 43.3 percent, compared to the same week in 2019.
The good news? Seventy-four percent of the New York residents hospitalized with COVID-19 have been discharged, as of Saturday, and state saw its first drop in the number of reported deaths on Saturday. Kious Kelly, an assistant nurse manager on a cardiac observation unit at Mount Sinai West, died of coronavirus on March 24. At least two Mount Sinai West employees who worked in his unit, known as 10B, and one nurse who did not, have tested positive for COVID-19 infection, according to interviews with two of the sick employees and the daughter of the third.
1,140 ventilators coming from China and Oregon The founders of China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba, Jack Ma and Joseph Tsai , are donating 1,000 ventilators to New York, Cuomo announced Saturday, thanking China’s government for facilitating the donation. The units arrived at JFK on Saturday. Meanwhike, Oregon governor Kate Brown is also loaning 140 ventilators to New York — and Cuomo said that the state would send 280 back for the peak of Oregon’s outbreak.
The mayor also announced a loosening of rules concerning who can get free meals from public schools. Now, anyone who needs food can get it from the 435 sites across the five boroughs. Previously, the free food was only available to students and their families. While there are rules preventing COVID-19 patients from boarding the ship, the Navy has also forbid patients with 49 additional medical conditions from on-board care. While the Comfort was originally planned to serve non-coronavirus patients to alleviate the stress on the health-care system, hospitals are now asking to reverse that decision.
Former NYPD top cop returns as coronavirus supply czar Mayor de Blasio announced Wednesday that former police commissioner James O’Neill is stepping into a newly created role as COVID-19 senior adviser. His job will be to oversee the supply and distribution of medical equipment to hospitals throughout the city. It’s a big job as the city faces a shortage of key supplies. De Blasio said Wednesday that the city still needs 3.3 million N95 masks, 2.
The rate at which prisoners and employees at the jail complex have been infected by the coronavirus is seven times that of the city around it, which has the highest rate in the country with the world’s most confirmed cases.“We’re at capacity, 50 men a dorm,” Modesto said. “We’re living 15 inches away from each other. You have people coughing, and my fear is that everyone that tested positive didn’t have symptoms.
Meanwhile, in Manhattan, the field hospital set up in Central Park to help with overflow patients from Mount Sinai is creating controversy. The group behind the 68-bed center is Samaritan’s Purse, run by Evangelical Trump pal Franklin Graham. According to NBC New York, “The group asks health care workers and volunteers to adhere to a statement of faith, which opposes same-sex marriage.” Local officials, including City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, are raising concerns about the group.
Amazon fires Staten Island worker who led walkout A New York man who led Monday’s walkout of a Staten Island Amazon warehouse was fired later in the day. Christian Smalls helped organize the walkout after a co-worker tested positive for COVID-19. He accused management of refusing to close the facility for two weeks following the employee’s positive test.
The first minor in NYC with a case of the coronavirus has died The city reported the death of its first patient under the age of 18 on Monday. Like the vast majority of patients who have passed away, the city reported that the minor had an underlying condition. Of the 790 deaths in the city, 777 patients had underlying conditions, which, according to the city’s definition, include diabetes, lung disease, cancer, immunodeficiency, heart disease, hypertension, kidney disease, and asthma.
NYC will fine those defying social-distancing rules Flouting social-distancing rules in New York City could result in a $500 fine, Mayor de Blasio said Sunday. The mayor said people will be given warnings, and fines will be reserved for those who remain defiant.
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