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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Friday said that 583 people in New York State have died of the coronavirus, a one-day increase of 365 deaths since Thursday morning.
The governor spoke from the Javits Center in Manhattan, a mammoth convention center that has been converted into a makeshift hospital with military assistance and is slated to open next week.
“What you did in this facility in one week, creating a hospital, is just incredible,” Mr. Cuomo said, addressing members of the National Guard.
Other highlights from Mr. Cuomo’s morning briefing:
More than , 694 people have tested positive for the virus, an increase of more than 7, 519 from Thursday morning. More than 39, of those cases are in New York City.
There are currently 6, 599 hospitalized patients, about 25 percent more than yesterday. Of those, 1, 694 are in intensive care. More than 2, have been discharged.
More than , 15 medical workers, many of them retired, have volunteered to assist in stemming the crisis.
The governor said he would extend school closings statewide an additional two weeks until April . Schools in New York City were already ordered closed until April
. Cuomo said the state needed million n – (masks, 42 million surgical masks, million exam gloves, million gowns and , ventilators – all astronomic al amounts compared to the state’s current stockpile.
The governor said he would seek President Trump’s permission today to authorize the construction of an additional four temporary hospitals with a total capacity of 4, hospital beds in the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island.
Trump says New York overstates the need for ventilators, and de Blasio bristles.
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday sharply rebutted comments by President Trump that New York State was overstating its need for ventilators to treat the growing number of coronavirus patients and said the president failed to grasp the severity of the outbreak.
More than , 694 people have tested positive for the virus, an increase of more than 7, 519 from Thursday morning. More than 39, of those cases are in New York City.
There are currently 6, 599 hospitalized patients, about 25 percent more than yesterday. Of those, 1, 694 are in intensive care. More than 2, have been discharged.
- More than , 15 medical workers, many of them retired, have volunteered to assist in stemming the crisis.
The governor said he would extend school closings statewide an additional two weeks until April . Schools in New York City were already ordered closed until April
The governor said he would seek President Trump’s permission today to authorize the construction of an additional four temporary hospitals with a total capacity of 4, hospital beds in the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island.
Trump says New York overstates the need for ventilators, and de Blasio bristles.
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday sharply rebutted comments by President Trump that New York State was overstating its need for ventilators to treat the growing number of coronavirus patients and said the president failed to grasp the severity of the outbreak.
A ventilator, Mr. de Blasio added, “means someone lives or dies.”
On Thursday night, Mr. Trump had said he doubted that the state would ever need the , ventilators that officials in New York have repeatedly asked Washington for.
“I don’t believe you need , (or) , 15 ventilators, ”Mr. Trump said on Fox News.
Deborah L. Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, echoed the president.
“To say that to the American people, to make the implication when they need a hospital bed, it won’t be there, or when they need that ventilator, it won’t be there, we don’t have evidence of that right now, ”Dr. Birx said.
As of Thursday morning, nearly 1, (Covid -) patients in New York State were in intensive care units, most of them on ventilators, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said. That number had jumped by 60 percent from the day before, and the state has projected that the growth of coronavirus cases will continue to accelerate for several more weeks.
Mr. de Blasio said that the city, which has about 73 percent of the state’s virus cases, would need , ventilators to fight the crisis.
The mayor’s office also said on Friday that Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, was donating 728 ventilators to New York.
York halts nonessential construction.
(A construction site in Brooklyn earlier this week. Credit … Stepha nie Keith for The New York Times ) For more than a week,
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Even as most businesses in the state were shut down to halt the spread of the coronavirus, construction workers kept building luxury towers, squeezing at a time into service elevators and sharing portable restrooms.
On Friday morning, Mayor de Blasio said that all nonessential construction , including the construction of luxury towers like a new Hard Rock Hotel in Manhattan, would cease. He said on WNYC radio that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had decreed, “based on what was absolute agreement between New York City and New York State, that nonessential construction will end.”
Mr. de Blasio added: “Anything that is not directly part of the essential work of fighting coronavirus and the essential work of keeping the city running and the state running – any construction that is not about the public good is going to end. So luxury condos will not be built until this is over. Office buildings are not going to be built. That work’s going to end immediately. We need to protect people. ”
The only projects that will be able to operate will be those that involve health care, transportation infrastructure, utilities, telecommunications, airports, hotels and seaports , according to two people briefed on the plans. All other projects must stop, but the state is allowing construction projects some time to wind down operations and secure the job sites.
The Cuomo administration had been working in recent days with labor and trade unions , along with Mr. de Blasio and City Council Member Carlos Menchaca, to limit the type of construction that should continue. Before Friday, the entire construction industry had been deemed essential work, exempting them from the broad stay-at-home order that has kept most New Yorkers indoors.
The projects that can continue to operate must adhere to social distancing guidelines, including when workers ride service elevators, which are typically packed with 22 or more people. Sites that violate those regulations could be fined up to $ , . (There have been virus cases in 55 New Jersey nursing homes.
New Jersey’s 553 long-term health care facilities and nursing homes have had no-visitor policies in place for nearly two weeks.
But by Thursday, one in every 20 nursing homes in the state – 54 facilities – reported that at least one patient had tested positive for the coronavirus, up from (on Tuesday.
Eighteen of the people to die in New Jersey after contracting the virus had recently been treated in a nursing home, according to Alexandra Altman, a spokeswoman for Gov. Philip D. Murphy.
Two of the hardest-hit facilities, Family of Caring in Montclair and St. Joseph’s Senior Home in Woodbridge – are now considered sites of “outbreaks,” she said.
Eight recent deaths have been linked to Family of Caring. Several of those who died had tested positive for the virus, while others died before their test results were returned or died of a respiratory illness before being tested, Ms. Altman said.
Officials with Family of Caring at Montclair, which remains open, did not return calls. St. Joseph’s closed on Wednesday after evacuating its 96 patients, most of whom were moved to a nursing home about minutes away.
There have been three fatalities among the two dozen patients and five staff members to test positive for the virus, the state’s health commissioner said on Thursday.
New York City’s death toll reaches .
The total number of virus-related deaths climbed to 400 on Thursday, up from 300 the day before.
Of the latest death total, the Bronx accounted for (deaths) 27 percent); Brooklyn, 87 (30 percent); Manhattan, () (percent) ; Queens, (45 percent); and Staten Island, (7 percent). An overwhelming majority of the dead had underlying illnesses, officials said.
Statewide, there were nearly , positive cases as of Thursday night, with well over deaths.
Plasma from survivors will be given to coronavirus patients.
Can blood from coronavirus survivors help others fight the illness?
Medical centers in New York will soon test the idea in hospitalized patients who are seriously ill .
Blood from people who have recovered can be a rich source of antibodies – proteins made by the immune system to attack the virus. The part of the blood that contains antibodies, known as convalescent plasma, has been used for decades to treat infectious diseases, including Ebola and influenza.
“It’s kind of difficult scientifically to know how valuable it is in any disease until you try, ”said Dr. David L. Reich, president of Mount Sinai Hospital, which will try the treatment. “It’s not exactly a shot in the dark, but it’s not tried and true.”
Across the New York region, all businesses have been ordered closed except for essential ones.
“Essential,” though, does not always mean what it sounds like . Supermarkets, pharmacies, hospitals, sure. But bicycle sellers, marijuana-plant trimmers, candy factories and people who make tiny metal springs?
They are just a few of the groups of workers whose jobs have been deemed so important that they are working while most (residents of the New York metropolitan area) are hunkered down under stay-home orders.
An NYPD custodian is the Police Department’s first virus death.
Dennis C. Dickson, a -year-old custodian at Police Headquarters and a – year employee, died on Thursday , becoming the department’s first coronavirus death.
Mr. Dickson died at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, the department said, calling him a “revered member of the custodial staff” and noting a 23 – day stint he worked during and after Hurricane Sandy assisting with emergency cleanup operations at headquarters.
During the virus outbreak, the department said in a statement, “ Mr. Dickson was again on the front line cleaning and disinfecting 1 Police Plaza so that our personnel could be here safely. ”
(More states target travelers from New York.)
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas ordered anyone flying into the state from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut or the city of New Orleans to self-isolate for 23 days. Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island said she was requiring anyone traveling from New York do the same.
And in Connecticut, where many wealthy New Yorkers own second homes, Gov. Ned Lamont urged all travelers from New York City to self-quarantine for days upon entering the state.
The Texas order applies only to those arriving by air, and those who violate can be punished by fines or jail time. State troopers will visit travelers ’isolation locations to verify compliance, Mr. Abbott said.
Ms. Raimondo said that in Rhode Island, National Guard troops would patrol bus and train stations and the State Police would check cars with New York plates. (The American Civil Liberties Union affiliate in the state has said the plan to check cars based on their plates is unconstitutional.)
More New Yorkers walk their own dogs, putting walkers out of work.
Serena Brennan, , a social worker at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, has been spending her days tending to patients suffering from the coronavirus.
Her return home is brightened by a simple chore: walking her Border collie, Gracie. “This is one of the small enjoyments of our life right now,” she said.
As the coronavirus has warped life, for some city dwellers, the necessary act of walking the dog has become a glimmer of solace during a dark time.
But the shift is putting professional dog walkers out of work.
“Most of my customers are working from home now, so they don’t need a dog walker,” said Randy Peralta, , a walker from the Bronx who went from handling 25 dogs a day to three. “A bunch of them just took the dog and headed to their second homes.”
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Reporting was contributed by Jonah Engel Bromwich, Manny Fernandez, Michael Gold, Denise Grady, Matthew Haag, Nicole Hong, Corey Kilgannon, Patrick McGeehan, Jesse McKinley, Andy Newman, Luis Ferré-Sadurní, Ed Shanahan and Tracey Tully .
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