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Grim milestones mark the pandemic’s second month.
As the second month of the coronavirus outbreak begins and the nation braces for the worst of it, the virus’s toll in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut is already devastating.
Thirty-one days after the region recorded its first case — a Manhattan woman in her thirties who had traveled to Iran — the number of confirmed cases of the virus will shoot past 100,000 when today’s figures are released.
Deaths attributable to the virus, which have been climbing by an average of 30 percent each day for the past week, stood at 1,866 in the region on Tuesday night — 1,550 in New York, 267 in New Jersey and 69 in Connecticut — and are set to pass 2,000 today.
In New York, the hardest-hit state in the country, the numbers of people hospitalized, on ventilators, testing positive, or dead of the virus have all begun to increase a little more slowly in recent days.
But they are still increasing every day, and officials expect it will be somewhere between a week and three weeks before the virus begins to ebb.
Economic and public life in the region remain mostly shut down: schools are closed, most businesses are shuttered, traffic is scarce and ambulance sirens wail regularly. And there are no clear signs yet of when things might return to normal.
“We’re all in search of the apex and the other side of the mountain,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Tuesday. “But we are still headed up the mountain.”
People in and around New York who have died of the virus include
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a Staten Island high school principal who ran the New York Marathon 38 times in a row
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a judge who presided over the battles about the closing of a Brooklyn hospital,
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and the head of a Brooklyn church who officials said was the nation’s first Roman Catholic priest claimed by the virus.
Eight days after saying Mass via live stream, he was dead.
Father Jorge Ortiz-Garay did not want his parishioners to be afraid.
The world is in crisis, he said as he celebrated Mass at St. Brigid’s Church in Bushwick, Brooklyn, on March 19, the pews empty and his flock watching at home via live stream. But perhaps the coronavirus, and the fear it has brought, could provide the chance to grow closer to God.
“There’s no better time than this time of trials, this time of challenges, to fulfill our call to holiness,” said Father Jorge, as he was known. “At these moments of trial and crisis, at these times when maybe we are asking what will happen to us, trust in the Father.”
He assured his parishioners that he was in good health.
But eight days later, Father Jorge died at Wyckoff Hospital Medical Center. He was 49.
He was the first Catholic priest in the United States known to have died of the virus, according to the Diocese of Brooklyn, which said two more of its priests had tested positive.
The church’s traditions have been utterly disrupted by the pandemic. Its fundamental rites — including congregating to worship — have been fractured by imposed isolation and social distancing.
Now, mourners say, they are doubly pained by the loss of a church leader and the inability to come together and share the comforting rituals of public grief.
In the battle for resources, Trump and governors are still fighting.
A chorus of governors from across the political spectrum, including the leaders of New York and Connecticut, is publicly challenging the Trump administration’s assertion that the country is well stocked and well prepared to test people for the coronavirus and care for the sickest patients.
Governor Cuomo said on Tuesday that the country’s patchwork approach to the pandemic had made it harder to get desperately needed ventilators.
“You now literally will have a company call you up and say, ‘Well, California just outbid you,’” said Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat. “It’s like being on eBay with 50 other states, bidding on a ventilator.”
Connecticut’s governor, Ned Lamont, also a Democrat, said it was “disturbing” to learn that a national stockpile of medical supplies was running empty.
“We are on our own,” he said.
As the virus has exploded in the United States, governors have become key figures in the public fight against it, and several have gone head-to-head with the Trump administration over the need for testing supplies and ventilators.
For his part, Mr. Trump has been quick to pick fights with governors who have criticized his efforts. He took aim at Mr. Cuomo on Tuesday, saying that the governor “shouldn’t be complaining.”
The city’s open-air produce markets are a lifeline.
Tenzing Chime now has just one job to do at the vegetable stand in Brooklyn where he works — and where the simple act of selling a piece of produce has become an elaborate assembly-line ritual.
Mr. Chime and his co-workers wear masks, plastic eye shields and gloves.
One slides leafy greens into clear plastic bags.
Customers point at bagged vegetables from behind a rope, as if choosing diamonds from a jewelry case.
Another worker puts their selections in plastic bins and slides them down the table toward the register, like handbags at an airport security check. Mr. Chime, 30, handles the cash.
The city’s 50 outdoor farmers’ markets have long been precious to New Yorkers.
But during the virus crisis, with many people trying to avoid stores and grocery delivery services backed up for days, some shoppers said the open-air markets were more important than ever.
“I’m not going into the supermarket, around people,” said Sioux Nesi, 52, a customer at Mr. Chime’s market in Carroll Gardens.
Help is arriving, but much more is needed, Mayor de Blasio said.
More than 500 paramedics and emergency medical technicians, 2,000 nurses and 250 ambulances are heading to New York City from across the United States to shore up a health care system that is being buried under an avalanche of coronavirus patients, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday.
The mayor’s remarks came on a day when the city’s death toll from the virus passed 1,000.
The mayor announced the arriving reinforcements at the U.S.T.A. Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, which is being converted to an emergency care center for virus patients to relieve pressure on Elmhurst Hospital, where conditions have been called “apocalyptic.”
“Very soon this is going to be 350 hospital beds to protect the lives of New Yorkers,” Mr. de Blasio said, noting that 135 additional ambulances and 270 paramedics had already arrived.
As the number of cases and hospitalizations continues to rise rapidly, Mr. de Blasio said the city’s needs for equipment and medical workers remained vast, and immediate.
“This coming Sunday, April 5, is a demarcation line,” he said, zeroing in on what he has called a critical date. “This is the point at which we must be prepared for next week when we expect a huge increase in the number of cases.”
Governor Cuomo’s brother has the virus.
Governor Cuomo’s younger brother, Chris Cuomo, 49, a CNN anchor, announced on Tuesday that he had tested positive for the virus. The governor later said his brother had a fever, shortness of breath and chills.
The governor has appeared on his brother’s show regularly since the outbreak began, offering their sibling rivalry to viewers as a humorous diversion from the drumbeat of dire news. On Sunday night, the governor even teased his brother for broadcasting from his basement, where, it turns out, the younger Mr. Cuomo was quarantined as of Tuesday.
“Everyone is subject to this virus,” the governor said on Monday. He added that his brother, whom he called his best friend, was strong — “not as strong as he thinks” — and that he would be fine.
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Reporting was contributed by Anne Barnard, Jonah Engel Bromwich, Luis Ferré-Sadurní, Michael Gold, Sarah Mervosh, Andy Newman, Katie Rogers, Liam Stack, and Matt Stevens.
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