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United States Beats China in COVID-19 Death Cases

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New York, the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, registered 75,795 cases on Tuesday, 9,298 more than on Monday, and 1,550 deaths, 332 more than the previous day, while the authorities reinforce and try to unify their health system waiting for the spike in infections, which according to different estimates can reach a range of between 7 and 21 days, reported Governor Andrew Cuomo.

“We are all looking for the top, and we are still on the other side of the mountain. We kept going up and the number of people who had the test last night was almost record (…) The total number of people tested is about 200,000 for a population of 19 million. It is helping us find the positive cases, “Cuomo said in his daily update on the coronavirus crisis data.

Cuomo revealed that almost 11,000 people are hospitalized, about 1,400 more than on Monday, of which about 2,700 with intensive care patients (ICUs), almost 360 more than yesterday, and meanwhile almost 5,000 people have been discharged in total. , about 770 more.

The greatest burden is in New York City, which concentrates more than 43,000 coronavirus cases, almost 5,700 more than this Monday, and which is already receiving reinforcements for hospitals that are beginning to overflow with the US forces hospital ship Comfort Armed with a thousand beds for patients who don’t have the Covid-19 virus, or the field hospital established at the Javits convention center, which has three thousand.

In a longer appearance than usual, and in which he admitted to being “tired of being behind the virus”, Cuomo clung to the warlike similes and assured that it is necessary to “anticipate the next battle”, for which the authorities are “Gathering equipment they don’t need today, because today is not the day of battle, but when we reach the top of the mountain.”

In this sense, the governor urged that there be a “social acceptance” that the Covid-19 crisis is not going to end “soon” and revealed that, according to five models he manages on the contagion curve in the state , the “range is somewhere between 7 and 21 days”, a “too wide” range for which encourages “calibrate expectations so that we do not disappoint each time we get up.”

With information from ABC

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