White House medical experts have forecast that between 100,000 to 240,000 Americans could be killed in the pandemic, even if sweeping orders to stay home are followed.
NEW YORK - Coronavirus-related illnesses killed 630 people in the last day in New York state, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday, in the grimmest 24 hours yet for the U.S. state hit hardest by the pandemic.
"We're not yet at the apex, we're getting closer ... Our reading of the projections is we're somewhere in the seven-day range," Cuomo said.The United States has the world's highest number of known cases of COVID-19, the flu-like respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. More than 300,000 people have tested positive in the United States and over 8,100 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
Because of the risk of infection, many people with critically ill relatives in New York City are unable to see their loved ones in their final hours. An emergency stockpile of medical equipment maintained by the U.S. government has nearly run out of protective garb for doctors and nurses. "We see what's going on in New York now, we see that people are dying," Rick Scott, a U.S. senator from Florida, told Fox News Channel.
Story continuesPatients in New Orleans are dying at twice the rate per capita as in New York. [nL1N2BQ1PZ]
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