New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has renewed his plea for federal assistance amid deepening shortages for critical medical supplies.
“We need federal help and we need the federal help now,” Mr Cuomo said. “New York is the canary in the coal mine, New York is happening first, what is happening to New York will happen to California and Illinois, it is just a matter of time.”
New York state has reported 25,665 Covid-19 infections with at least 210 deaths. It accounts for more than half of US infections overall.
Gov Cuomo blasted the number of ventilators - 400 - sent to New York from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema).
“Four hundred ventilators? I need 30,000 ventilators. You want a pat on the back for sending 400 ventilators?” he said.
I guess I hadn’t thought about how long it takes for each patient to be out of the hospital. So 5-6k new cases a day even if it flattens there for a while is still inevitably going to overrun the hospitals right?
Little microdaughter has a close friend whose parents, both of them, have tested positive. They apparently had gone to some hot spot in Colorado. My daughter hasn’t seen this friend since her parents came back.
I mean it’s preliminary but the NY Times article listed 3 studies that suggest there’s a sweet spot in cold, dry air. IE - Colorado.
If we could see that thing we might see it falling like snow or something all over the place and just piling up and hanging out for days in the right conditions. I can picture people living it up in the Italian Alps just snowing virus all over each other from their breathing.
It seems like the flattening in cases from the last day was artificial due to less tests being done than the prior day (based on the data posted earlier today up thread)
