NEW YORK, April 1 — Emergency field hospitals were readied in New York’s Central Park and at the home of the US Open tennis tournament as the number of American deaths from the coronavirus pandemic surged past 4,000 — higher than the toll in China. The pandemic has killed more than 1,700 New...
A New York City Police officer takes a selfie while in the middle of the street in an almost empty Times Square, during the coronavirus disease outbreak in New York March 31, 2020. — Reuters pic
Already the hardest-hit area, America’s financial capital is in a race to ramp up hospital capacity before cases peak. Declared coronavirus cases across the US surged to 189,510 early today, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University, with 4,076 deaths.New York state has seen far more cases — 76,000 — and deaths than any other since announcing its first infection on March 1 and quickly emerging as the epicentre of the US outbreak.
“We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die,” Captain Brett Crozier wrote in a letter to his superiors, US media reported. Defence Secretary Mark Esper later downplayed the drama, saying that no one was “seriously ill.” A man wears a face mask while the USNS Comfort and the Empire State Building are seen from Weehawken, New Jersey, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in New York March 31, 2020. — Reuters picA few blocks away at Pier 90 sits the white, imposing US navy hospital ship Comfort, with 1,000 beds and 12 operating rooms — also for non-coronavirus patients.
“Calibrate yourself and your expectations so you’re not disappointed every day you get up,” he told reporters.Tim Mosher — nurse team leader at the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital in Central Park — said the site’s 70 staff, mostly volunteers, would stay for as long as needed.
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