New York state had it deadliest day yet amid the coronavirus crisis, with more than 500 fatalities, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says.
Medical workers in protective clothing move a body to a refrigerated overflow morgue outside the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn on Thursday.Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Medical workers in protective clothing move a body to a refrigerated overflow morgue outside the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn on Thursday.New York state had it deadliest day yet stemming from the coronavirus, with more than 500 fatalities, Gov. Andrew CuomoThe death toll has gone up from 2,373 to 2,935 in the last 24 hours, Cuomo told reporters during a late morning press conference. He described it as the"highest single increase in the number of deaths since we started.
The governor also warned that more people were going to die if additional ventilators don't become more available. He said he is signing anHe also reiterated his frustration that badly needed personal protective equipment — or PPE — is not being produced more quickly.I am signing an Executive Order allowing the state to take ventilators and redistribute to hospitals in need.
The National Guard will be mobilized to move ventilators to where they are urgently required to save lives."Supplies, PPE are in short supply as they are across the country," Cuomo said."We need companies to make the materials. It is unbelievable to me that in New York state, in the United States of America, we can't make these materials. And that we are all shopping China to try to get these materials and we're all competing against each other.
In a bit of"good news," Cuomo said 8,886 coronavirus patients have been discharged from hospitals. Nearly 1,500 were discharged in the past day.
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