NEW YORK (AP) — Deaths from the coronavirus topped 1,000 in New York City as officials warned that the worst of the virus’ toll is yet to come.
The city’s Health Department reported late Tuesday that nearly 1,100 people have died of the virus in the city. More than 1,500 deaths from COVID-19 have been recorded across New York state.
Data released by the city shows that the disease is having a disproportionate effect in certain neighborhoods, mainly in Brooklyn and Queens.
The city’s ambulance system and police department are under increasing stress from the pandemic, with nearly a quarter of the city’s emergency medical service workers out sick, according to the Fire Department. In all, 2,800 members of the Fire Department are sidelined, including about 950 of the city’s 4,300 EMS workers.
Nearly 16 percent of the New York Police Department’s uniformed force is now out sick. More than 1,000 officers have tested positive for the virus.
Authorities are racing to build temporary hospitals in locations including Central Park, the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, a cruise ship terminal and a sports complex to handle an expected surge in patients.
The virus, which causes the disease COVID-19, has spread rapidly across the globe. It causes mild symptoms in many of those infected, but it can cause severe symptoms or death for some, including older adults and those with underlying medical conditions such as respiratory ailments.
Sadly the only New Yorker I would like to succumb is still kicking.
There were almost 1000 deaths yesterday in the US and it hasn’t really gotten started in some parts of the country. What is occurring in NYC is a preview of what is going to happen in the rest of the country in the next two weeks, first in urban centers and then into rural areas.
He changed his state of residence. He’s Florida Man now.
Scary…
Trump’s being allowed to remain president points to a massive institutional failure in the United States.
Those persons who are the leaders of those institutions are accountable. Especially those who did nothing to remove Trump from office.
It was never about Trump. Trump should have been an outpatient on supervised-release at BEST (and only for several hours at MOST)
It was about actors in key positions in our institutions who decided that their own advantage superseded the welfare of this Republic.