The number of COVID-19 cases in the state has crossed the 10,000-mark.
. The state now has conducted 45,437 tests and has a total of 10,356 COVID-19 cases, accounting for more than half of the total in the United States, Cuomo said. In New York City alone, more than 6,000 have tested positive. “The more tests you take, the more positives you find,” he said, a day after issuing a decree calling on New Yorkers to stay inside.
In hospitals around the state, health workers warned that the surge in cases they had been expecting had arrived and ventilators were already starting to run short along with other much needed supplies, including masks. Even as authorities had warned the surge was possible, the speed at which cases increased was still shocking to those on the front lines. “The most striking part is the speed with which it has ramped up,”.
Officials have said that the number of available hospital beds in the state would need to double to 100,000 and New York is short as many as 25,000 ventilators. State officials are now considering setting up temporary
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