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Coronavirus Live Updates: As Toll Mounts, Lawmakers Look to Next Phase of Response
A 1,000-bed Navy hospital ship, the Comfort, docked in Manhattan. Federal guidelines warning against travel and gatherings were extended through April. In Washington, talk turned to expanding paid sick leave.
RIGHT NOW: About three out of four Americans are or will soon be under instructions to stay at home. In New York, the governor said that 1,218 people had died, and that 9,517 people in the state were hospitalized with the virus.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-news.html
As per Cuomo: at 1:25 today there are 66497 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York State.
