Here’s what you need to know:
- Governor Cuomo said that 1,218 people had died in New York, up from 965 on Sunday morning.
- A man was accused of coughing on F.B.I. agents and saying he had the virus.
- “We’re left for dead”: Fears of a catastrophe at Rikers Island are growing.
- New York hospitals face $400 million in cuts as the virus battle rages.
- Restaurants find hope by delivering donated meals to hospitals.
Governor Cuomo said that 1,218 people had died in New York, up from 965 on Sunday morning.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, briefing reporters on Monday, said that the worst of the coronavirus outbreak was yet to come, even as another 253 people died in the state in a 24-hour period.
“If you wait to prepare for a storm to hit, it is too late,” the governor said. “You have to prepare before the storm hits. And in this case the storm is when you hit that high point, when you hit that apex. How do you know when you’re going to get there? You don’t.”
The governor spoke at the Javits Center, a convention hall in Manhattan that was quickly turned into a 1,000-bed emergency hospital. His remarks came shortly after a Navy hospital ship arrived in the city.
The setting for Mr. Cuomo’s briefing underscored New York’s urgent efforts to prepare its health care system for the wave of sick people that is expected to further overwhelm hospitals in just a few weeks.
Here are other developments from Monday:
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New York reported almost 7,000 new cases of the virus, bringing the total to nearly 66,500. Most of the cases were in New York City, where, officials reported later on Monday, 38,087 people been infected.
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The number of virus-related deaths in New York City rose to 914 Monday afternoon, up 138 from around the same time Sunday, officials said.
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Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey announced 3,347 new positive coronavirus cases in the state, bringing the total to 16,636. There were 37 new deaths, for a total of 198.
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Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut announced 578 new coronavirus cases in the state, bringing the total to 2,571. There were two new deaths, for a total of 36 in the state.
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In New York, the number of people hospitalized was 9,517, up 12 percent from yesterday. Of those, 2,352 are in ventilator-equipped intensive care rooms.
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In a hopeful note, Mr. Cuomo said that while the number of hospitalizations continues to grow, the rate which it is growing was tapering off. “We had a doubling of cases every two days, then a doubling every three days and a doubling every four days, then every five,” Mr. Cuomo said. “We now have a doubling of cases every six days. So while the overall number is going up, the rate of doubling is actually down.”
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More than 4,200 people have been discharged from hospitals.
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New York has tested more than 186,000 people in March, about one percent of the state’s population. But while New York’s testing capacity far outpaces that of other states, it has not reached the critical-mass level public health experts say is necessary to more precisely identify the spread of the virus.
A man was accused of coughing on F.B.I. agents and saying he had the virus.
A Brooklyn man was charged on Monday with lying to the federal authorities about selling N95 masks and other medical supplies to doctors at exorbitant prices and with assaulting a federal officer after he coughed on F.B.I. agents and then told them he had the coronavirus, prosecutors said.
The man, Baruch Feldheim, 43, was charged with making false statements to law enforcement officers after he lied about stockpiling and selling equipment that is desperately needed by hospitals as they confront a surge in virus patients, the authorities said.
Mr. Feldheim repeatedly sold the equipment at a markup, according to a criminal complaint filed against him in Federal District Court in Newark.
On one occasion, in a transaction arranged via a WhatsApp group named “Virus2020!,” Mr. Feldheim agreed to sell a doctor about 1,000 N95 masks and other gear for $12,000, according to the complaint. That was about 700 percent above what the doctor, who was not identified, would typically pay, the complaint says.
When he met with Mr. Feldheim at an auto repair shop in Irvington, N.J., on March 18, the doctor saw enough including hand sanitizer, Clorox wipes and medical supplies to “outfit an entire hospital,” the complaint says.
F.B.I. agents went to Mr. Feldheim’s home on Sunday to get more information, the complaint says. At that point, the complaint says, he “intentionally coughed in their direction without covering his mouth,” even though the agents had said they were keeping their distance out of concern over the virus. He told the agents that he had tested positive for the virus two weeks earlier, the complaint says.
Last week, a top Justice Department official warned federal prosecutors to be on the lookout for threats to spread the virus, and said that such acts could potentially be prosecuted under federal terrorism laws because the virus was considered a “biological agent.”
Mr. Feldheim was not charged under federal terrorism laws. A spokesman for the United States Attorney’s office in Newark declined to comment on whether he might be.
At least two other people in New Jersey have been charged in state cases for threatening to spread the virus, state officials said. One of them, a man who intentionally coughed near a supermarket employee and told her he was infected, was charged with making a terroristic threat.
“We’re left for dead”: Fears of a catastrophe at Rikers Island are growing.
One inmate used an alcohol pad that a barber had given him after a haircut to sanitize a frequently used Rikers Island jailhouse phone. Another used a sock to hold a phone. A third said he and others have used diluted shampoo to disinfect cell bars and table tops.
In the nearly two weeks since the coronavirus seeped into New York City’s jail system, fears have grown of the potential of a public health catastrophe in the cellblocks where thousands are being held in close quarters.
Public officials have been working to release hundreds of people in jail, but while that effort is moving forward, law enforcement officials concerned about public safety have urged caution.
Inside the jails, inmates, including some waiting to be released, have been struggling to protect themselves from the virus.
“You’re on top of one another no matter what you do,” said one man who was recently released from Rikers Island. “There’s no ventilation. If anything is floating, everybody gets it.”
As public officials across the country scramble to release their own vulnerable populations in jails and prisons as a result of the coronavirus, New York’s complex on Rikers Island has provided a case study in the difficulty of balancing public safety and public health concerns.
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Sunday that about 650 people had been released. Still, the rate of infection has continued to climb, and by Monday, 167 inmates, 114 correction staff and 20 health workers had tested positive and two correction staff members had died.
New York hospitals face $400 million in cuts as the virus battle rages.
For the past few weeks, Dr. David Perlstein has been scrambling to find more beds and ventilators, knowing that the coronavirus outbreak, which has filled his Bronx hospital with more than 100 patients, will undoubtedly get much worse.
Then a week ago, Dr. Perlstein, the chief executive officer of St. Barnabas Hospital, was given some disturbing news by a state senator: His hospital could soon lose millions of dollars in government funding.
The funding cut was proposed by a panel that Mr. Cuomo convened this year, before the virus had reached the United States, to rein in the state’s growing Medicaid program by identifying $2.5 billion in savings.
But the timing of the proposals, which were released in mid-March and include about $400 million in cuts to hospitals, was a blow to the morale of many hospitals and medical workers on the front lines of the fight against a ruthless virus that has infected tens of thousands in New York.
“It’s a shot in the gut,” Dr. Perlstein said. “During a time I need to commit all the energy I have to really save lives and expand access and not skimp on resources, now I have to worry about how we’re going to continue to pay our bills.”
Restaurants find hope by delivering donated meals to hospitals.
Last week, a large order from a Twitter follower in Maryland gave the Harlem restaurant FieldTrip a crucial shot of revenue and, perhaps, a glimpse of a way to stay in business during the coronavirus pandemic.
FieldTrip’s chef and owner, JJ Johnson, had taken to Twitter on Wednesday to say he had just packed and sent 40 rice bowls, his restaurant’s specialty, to the staff at Harlem Hospital Center. One of New York City’s official coronavirus testing sites, the hospital has been flooded, like so many others in the area, by new and suspected cases.
A few minutes later, the fan in Maryland bought 170 more bowls; Mr. Johnson sent half to Harlem the next day and half to Mount Sinai Hospital on Friday. The order kept FieldTrip busy enough that Mr. Johnson called two of his employees back to join the three others he had brought in earlier in the week as takeout and delivery business began to pick up.
What has happened at Fieldtrip is playing out at restaurants and hospitals around the country. Delivery orders for health care workers have begun coming in, ranging in ambition from bags of sandwiches paid for by small pledges on GoFundMe pages to multicourse meals subsidized by the philanthropic arms of major companies.
A doctor known for separating conjoined twins died of virus-related complications.
Dr. James T. Goodrich, a pediatric neurosurgeon known for successfully separating conjoined twins in a complicated and rare procedure, died on Monday from complications related to the coronavirus, according to the hospital where he worked.
Dr. Goodrich spent more than 30 years working at Albert Einstein College and Montefiore Medical Center. He was the director of Montefiore’s pediatric neurosurgery division.
“Jim was in many ways the heart and soul of our department — a master surgeon, a world-class educator and a beloved colleague for all,” Emad N. Eskandar, the chair of the neurosurgery department at Einstein and Montefiore, said in a statement.
Dr. Goodrich, an Oregon native, served in the Marines during the Vietnam War before starting his career in medicine, hospital officials said in their statement.
In 2004, he was thrust into public view after he operated on Clarence and Carl Aguirre, twins from the Philippines who were joined at the tops of their heads and shared a major vein in the brain.
Dr. Goodrich led a team of surgeons through a series of high-risk operations that successfully separated the boys. The children’s story generated headlines, including in The New York Times, and TV specials
In 2016, he received attention when he led a team of 40 surgeons in a 27-hour procedure to separate another set of twin boys.
Dr. Goodrich is survived by his wife and three sisters.
Reporting was contributed by Jonah Engel Bromwich, Helene Cooper, Luis Ferré-Sadurní, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Michael Gold, Jesse McKinley, Andy Newman, Sam Roberts, Matt Stevens, Tracey Tully and Pete Wells.
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