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bluewater

(5,376 posts)
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 01:34 PM Mar 2020

100 Deaths From Coronavirus in N.Y. in One Day: Live Updates

Source: New York Times

From Wednesday morning to Thursday morning, 100 people died of the coronavirus in New York State, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Thursday, as patients stay on ventilators longer and succumb to respiratory failure.

The number of patients hospitalized in the state also surged 40 percent in a day, the sharpest increase in days, Mr. Cuomo said during a news briefing where the message was notably less hopeful about the surging outbreak that it had been the previous day.

The governor emphasized on Thursday that the numbers on any single day did not provide an accurate picture of the damage caused by the coronavirus.

Still, Thursday’s briefing represented a significant swing from the previous day’s, when Mr. Cuomo led with optimistic projections about the slowing growth rate of hospitalization in the state, which he attributed to social-distancing rules.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

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100 Deaths From Coronavirus in N.Y. in One Day: Live Updates (Original Post) bluewater Mar 2020 OP
My brother just said that we may be moving to a DNR order. Initech Mar 2020 #1
A doctor at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens said it had faced "the first wave of this tsunami." ancianita Mar 2020 #2

Initech

(100,070 posts)
1. My brother just said that we may be moving to a DNR order.
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 01:54 PM
Mar 2020

We are 12 days behind Spain and Italy but that may escalate very quickly. Fuck!!!

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