Here’s what you need to know:
- New York’s virus case count is doubling every three days.
- The New York City police have begun to enforce social distancing rules.
- A White House official is troubled by the ‘attack rate’ in New York.
- A Brooklyn high school principal died from virus complications.
- Some hospitals are making women give birth without their partners or doulas.
- Where’d you get those ventilators? None of your business.
- Population density has made New York City the nation’s coronavirus capital.
New York’s virus case count is doubling every three days.
Coronavirus is accelerating its spread in New York, with potentially disastrous consequences, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a briefing on Tuesday in which he criticized the federal government’s response as woefully insufficient.
The case count is doubling every three days, and the peak of infection in New York could come as soon as two to three weeks, Mr. Cuomo said, outrunning earlier projections and threatening to put even bigger strain on the health care system than officials had feared.
“We haven’t flattened the curve. And the curve is actually increasing,” Mr. Cuomo said. “The apex is higher than we thought and the apex is sooner than we thought. That is a bad combination of facts.”
Mr. Cuomo, who last week adopted a friendlier tone toward President Trump, chastised the federal government, which has so far sent 400 ventilators to New York City.
“You want a pat on the back for sending 400 ventilators,” Mr. Cuomo said. “What are we going to do with 400 ventilators when we need 30,000 ventilators? You’re missing the magnitude of the problem, and the problem is defined by the magnitude.”
Mr. Cuomo, speaking at the Javits Center in Manhattan, a convention complex that the Army Corps of Engineers is turning into a 1,000-bed emergency hospital, said that the state now projects needed up to 140,000 hospital beds to house virus patients, up from the 110,000 projected a few days ago. As of now, only 53,000 are available.
Up to 40,000 intensive-care beds could be needed.
“Those are troubling and astronomical numbers,” Mr. Cuomo said.
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As of Tuesday morning, New York State had 25,665 cases, with 210 deaths. The state now accounts for nearly 7 percent of global cases tallied by The New York Times.
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As a result of the increasing rate of infection, hospitals may be overwhelmed in 14 to 21 days, a far grimmer outlook than the state’s original 45-day projection issued last week.
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The governor said the state has so far procured 7,000 of the 30,000 ventilators it needs, which are in shortage as states compete with each other to purchase them.
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New York has tested more than 91,000 people — by far the most of any state, Mr. Cuomo said.
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New York City has had 14,904 confirmed cases.
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More than 3,200 people are hospitalized and 750 of those patients, or 23 percent, are in intensive care.
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The governor again floated the idea of gradually restarting the economy by letting young people and those who had recovered from the coronavirus return to the work force.
Mr. Cuomo said that New York was a harbinger for the rest of the country.
“Look at us today,” he warned. “Where we are today, you will be in four weeks or five weeks or six weeks. We are your future.”
The New York City police have begun to enforce social distancing rules.
The New York City police have begun a new series of patrols to ensure that residents are practicing appropriate social distancing.
On Sunday, in the span of three hours, the patrols issued at least 50 warnings to restaurants, bars, supermarkets and salons, as well as people crowding in public spaces, the department said.
“We have to keep people separated,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said on “Fox and Friends” Monday morning. “So our men and women of the N.Y.P.D. will be out there spreading the message, telling people to break it up, move along, no lines tight together in a grocery store, no grocery stores full up,”
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has banned all nonessential gatherings in the state. The governor also closed all nonessential businesses on Sunday. People have been asked to practice social distancing of at least six feet from each other in public, while businesses and other essential service providers were required to implement rules for social distancing.
The police have been frequent visitors to the crowds of customers and delivery riders forming outside the Italian restaurant Carbone in Greenwich Village.
A White House official is troubled by the ‘attack rate’ in New York.
The White House’s coronavirus response coordinator offered a grim assessment of the virus’s assault on the New York metropolitan area Monday evening: She said that nearly one in 1,000 people in the region had contracted the virus, an “attack rate” five times that of other areas of the country.
The coordinator, Dr. Deborah L. Birx, said at a White House briefing that the rate of infection showed that the virus must have been spreading for weeks “to have this level of penetrance into the general community.”
She added that 28 percent of tests for the coronavirus in the region were coming up positive, while the rate was less than 8 percent in the rest of the country.
“To all of my friends and colleagues in New York, this is the group that needs to absolutely social distance and self-isolate at this time,” Dr. Birx said.
In epidemiology, the attack rate is the percentage of a population that has a disease. New York State now has an attack rate similar to Italy’s. In New York City itself, the attack rate works out to about one case for every 650 residents.
A Brooklyn high school principal died from virus complications.
The principal of a high school in Brooklyn has died from complications related to the coronavirus, union officials said.
Dezann Romain, 36, was the principal of Brooklyn Democracy Academy in Brownsville, a transfer high school where most of the students arrive after struggling at more traditional schools.
“It is with profound sadness and overwhelming grief that we announce the passing of our sister, CSA member Dezann Romain, Principal of Brooklyn Democracy Academy, due to complications from coronavirus,” the union, the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, said in a statement Monday night.
Ms. Romain worked in the city’s school system since as early as 2008, according to public records. She spent years as a special-education teacher but had become an assistant principal by 2015 and a principal by 2017.
She is believed to be the first city public school staff member to die in connection with the epidemic. The city’s Education Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Some hospitals are making women give birth without their partners or doulas.
Women giving birth at two top New York City hospital networks are being told they must labor without partners or others by their side — leaving expectant mothers anxious about their upcoming deliveries.
Both NewYork-Presbyterian and Mt. Sinai Health System instituted restrictive visitor policies that bar spouses, partners or other outside support people, such as doulas, from the delivery room.
The rules are intended to help protect mothers and children during the coronavirus outbreak.
Pregnant women in the region say they are increasingly on edge as they prepare to deliver a baby in New York, which has become the epicenter of the outbreak in the United States.
“I have so much anxiety now and literally have not stopped crying after hearing that my husband can’t be with me,” said Samantha Moshen, 37, who is due in early June and plans to deliver at the Weill Cornell Medical Center, part of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital system.
Where’d you get those ventilators? None of your business.
As New York State emerges as the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, officials are competing to find ventilators and face masks for health care workers, driving up the prices of the equipment. To prevent that escalation and help ensure availability, some officials are keeping quiet about where they get their supplies.
Ryan McMahon, the county executive in Onondaga County, which contains Syracuse, the state’s fourth-biggest city, said he obtained 60 ventilators and other supplies, but will not disclose the source.
“We’re not going to give away our supply chains right now because it is that competitive,’’ he told Syracuse.com.
Onondaga County has 52 confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
Governor Cuomo said the same competition is happening on the state level.
“I’m competing with other states,” he said at a news conference in Albany on Monday. “I’m bidding up other states on the prices. Because you have manufacturers who sit there and California offers them $4, and they say well California offered $4, I offer $5 and another state calls in and offers $6. It’s not the way to do it.”
Marc Molinaro, the county executive in Dutchess County, said he and his counterparts in Ulster and Orange Counties — which have more than 300 cases combined — are taking a cooperative approach.
“Our job is to treat people who are sick, not only treat people within our county who are sick,” he said Tuesday morning. “Yes we have to respond to our communities’ needs but we’re trying to do it as regionally as possible.”
Population density has made New York City the nation’s coronavirus capital.
New York is far more crowded than any other major city in the United States. It has 28,000 residents per square mile, while San Francisco, the next most jammed city, has 17,000, according to data from the Census Bureau.
All of those people, in such a small space, appear to have helped the virus spread rapidly through packed subway trains, busy playgrounds and hivelike apartment buildings, forming ever-widening circles of infection.
“Density is really an enemy in a situation like this,” said Dr. Steven Goodman, an epidemiologist at Stanford University. “With large population centers, where people are interacting with more people all the time, that’s where it’s going to spread the fastest.”
Harvey Weinstein tested positive.
Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced film producer who was convicted in February of rape, has contracted the coronavirus in prison, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Weinstein recently tested positive and was being held in isolation at the Wende Correction Facility near Buffalo, according to the two people, who spoke anonymously to discuss a private medical matter.
Mr. Weinstein falls squarely within the category of people for whom the disease could be dangerous. He is 68 and has had a series of recent health problems: He was hospitalized twice for high blood pressure, heart palpitations and chest pain — once after his conviction and once this month after he was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
Reporting was contributed by Jonah Engel Bromwich, Christina Caron, Michael Crowley, Luis Ferré-Sadurní, Michael Gold, Nicole Hong, Jesse McKinley, Andy Newman, Azi Paybarah, Jan Ransom, Brian M. Rosenthal and Katie Van Syckle.
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