Here’s what you need to know:
- Governor Cuomo said there were signs that density- control measures were working.
- Emergency services must now take patients to the closest hospital.
- Roosevelt Avenue, a bustling thoroughfare, goes dark.
- As the rich flee the coronavirus, vacation towns say, “stay away.”
- To help doctors, N.Y.U. turns to senior medical students.
Governor Cuomo said there were signs that density- control measures were working.
Though the number of confirmed coronavirus cases continues to grow quickly and has now topped 30,000, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday said that there were early signs that stringent restrictions on social gatherings and other measures could be slowing the virus’s spread.
Mr. Cuomo highlighted data that showed slowing hospitalization rates. On Sunday, the state’s projections showed hospitalizations doubling every two days, while Tuesday’s estimates showed them doubling every 4.7 days.
“That is almost too good to be true,” the governor said, “but the theory is, given the density that we’re dealing with, it spreads very quickly, but if you reduce the density, you can reduce the spread very quickly.”
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Mr. Cuomo said the $2 trillion stimulus deal struck in Washington would be “terrible” for New York. The state, he said, would only be able to use $3.8 billion from the package to bridge a far-larger virus-related budget gap. But Senator Chuck Schumer’s office noted that New York would receive $40 billion in unemployment insurance, hospital grants and urgently-needed funds for the M.T.A.
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New York State has 30,811 confirmed cases, up more than 5,000 since Tuesday morning. That is more than 7 percent of the 431,000 cases worldwide tallied by The New York Times. There have been 285 deaths in the state. New York City has 17,856 confirmed cases.
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There was encouraging news from Westchester County, where the rate of infection has slowed. “We have dramatically slowed what was an exponential rate of increase,” Mr. Cuomo said. “That was the hottest cluster in the United States of America. We closed the schools, we closed gatherings, we brought in testing, and we have dramatically slowed the increase.”
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State officials project they will need 30,000 ventilators, of which they currently have 4,000. But the state is making headway: Mr. Cuomo said 7,000 more ventilators have been procured, in addition to 4,000 ventilators sent by the federal government.
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The governor said about 40,000 health care professionals, including retirees, have volunteered to work when hospitals become strained. Almost half are nurses.
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More than 3,800 people are currently hospitalized, or 12 percent of all confirmed cases. Of those, 888 people are currently in intensive care.
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In New Jersey, Gov. Philip D. Murphy announced 736 new cases, bringing the total in the state to 4,402, including 62 deaths.
Mr. Cuomo’s comments came the morning after federal officials, alarmed over the infection rate in New York City, urged anyone leaving the city to quarantine themselves for 14 days before mingling with the general population elsewhere.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that New Yorkers who were “understandably” trying to leave for places like Florida needed to make sure they were not “seeding” the rest of the United States.
“When they go to another place, for their own safety, they have to be careful,” Dr. Fauci said.
Emergency services must now take patients to the closest hospital.
The New York Fire Department’s chief of Emergency Medical Services issued new guidance on Tuesday requiring that any patient who needs to be transported to a hospital must be taken to the nearest one that processes 911 calls, without exception.
Patients were previously allowed to request which hospital they be taken to, so long as the one they chose was not more than 10 minutes further away than the closest medical center.
The guidance was issued in an internal Fire Department memo obtained by The New York Times.
The new rule underscores how severely the coronavirus outbreak is straining an emergency services corps that was already stretched thin. According to city data, the division typically receives around 4,000 calls on a steady day. On Tuesday, two sources said, more than 6,400 came in.
According to the new guidance, patients who knowingly refuse to be taken to the nearest hospital will be left and listed by medics as “refused medical assistance.”
Roosevelt Avenue, a bustling thoroughfare, goes dark.
As twilight approached on Sunday, Jatin Prajapati set up a folding table on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, outside a shuttered eyebrow-threading salon.
Mr. Prajapati, who works at a pharmacy in Manhattan, spent the day handing out bags containing masks, gloves and hand sanitizer to passers-by. The items were free, which often surprised the people who took them.
Another man, Manuel Cuzco, prayed outside St. Sebastian Roman Catholic Church, also on Roosevelt Avenue. Down the street, restaurants served their last customers for the evening and shopkeepers locked up, unsure of when they would reopen.
Roosevelt Avenue, which runs under the elevated 7 train, is usually a bustling business corridor. But the 8 p.m. deadline — the time when officials ordered nonessential businesses to close indefinitely — was fast approaching.
People carrying shopping bags scurried across the street on their way home, and the commercial strip went dark, dotted with the glow of essentials: pharmacies, markets, restaurants serving takeout and liquor stores.
As the rich flee the coronavirus, vacation towns say, “stay away.”
People with second homes in the Catskills region of New York are being warned to stay away in venom-laced Facebook posts and blunt messages from county officials.
Boardwalks and beaches in some Jersey Shore towns are barricaded, and local residents are urging that coastal access bridges be closed to outsiders.
In the Hamptons, the famous playground for the rich on Long Island’s East End, residents are angry that an onslaught of visitors has emptied out their grocery stores.
A backlash has grown on the outskirts of the New York region, as wealthy people flee to summer homes to avoid the densely packed city, which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in the United States.
“They’re coming up here to get away because they’re worried,” said Kim Langdon, 48, of Ashland, N.Y., in Greene County. “They pumping gas. They’re stopping at grocery stores. If they’re infected and they don’t know it, they’re putting everyone at risk.”
To help doctors, N.Y.U. turns to senior medical students.
Faced with a shortage of doctors, New York University’s medical school announced that it will allow students to graduate early if they agree to join the fight against the coronavirus epidemic.
Only those set to graduate this year and who have met most of their requirements are allowed to take the offer.
The students would have to begin working as interns in the university’s internal and emergency medicine departments in April, about three months earlier than they would normally begin working.
A spokeswoman for the university confirmed that students would be allowed to graduate early pending approval from the New York State Department of Education.
At hospitals in New York and the region, a sense of desperation is setting in as waves of sick patients threaten to overwhelm the health care system.
Hospitals are looking to augment their work force in any way they can. Mr. Cuomo said Wednesday that more than 40,000 people had already volunteered to provide health care.
Medical students at other New York institutions expect to be called up as well.
David Edelman, a medical student at Columbia, said that classes and rotations were canceled in early March, but students expected to be called in soon to help with routine matters.
“We need some kind of stable of support for when things are going to get worse,” he said.
As dorms become hospitals, college students from foster care are evicted.
More than 100 college students who grew up in foster care and are allowed to stay in campus dormitories year-round have been told to move out immediately, as New York State prepares to turn dorms into hospitals.
Several students said they feared that they would end up homeless or would have to return to less supportive foster homes and residential treatment centers.
The sudden move affects 117 students from a special scholarship program who live at Queens College and City College of New York in Harlem and at another residence operated by John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Marcus Diego, a student at Queens College, said the lack of planning and the disregard for the welfare of teenagers and young adults who have lived unstable lives was unacceptable.
“The National Guard is here,” he said. “They are turning these rooms into hospital rooms already. We’re packing. We are going to be homeless.”
The scholarship program, the Dormitory Project, which offers year-round housing and academic and financial support, is sponsored by the City Administration for Children’s Services, CUNY and New York Foundling, one of New York’s largest nonprofit child welfare agencies.
Bill Baccaglini, the chief executive of New York Foundling, said the nonprofit learned that the students had to be moved on Monday, though there was some concern previously that dormitories could close to follow the trend of other schools around the country.
The nonprofit and the Administration for Children’s Services have been working with foster care agencies to find places for the students to stay.
The taxi industry is decimated by the outbreak.
New York City’s taxi industry was already reeling from competition with Uber and Lyft and from the toll of drivers taking out reckless loans to buy medallions at artificially inflated prices.
Now, taxi owners and drivers who were barely holding on say their livelihood has evaporated with the city all but shut down.
“When you have to wait six or seven hours to get one passenger, it’s really bad,” said Mario Darius, 66, a taxi owner who was camped out at Kennedy International Airport after picking up just three fares in three days.
Though ridership numbers for March are not yet available, some in the industry say business is down by two-thirds or more.
Taxi companies can no longer find enough drivers for their fleets because there is so little business, and some cabbies are so fearful of being exposed to the virus they are staying home with no way to pay mounting bills.
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Reporting was contributed by Jonah Engel Bromwich, Michael Gold, Nicole Hong, Winnie Hu, Andy Newman, Nate Schweber, Michael Schwirtz, Ashley Southall, Nikita Stewart, Tracey Tully and Ali Watkins.
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