Data from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut suggested that steps to control the coronavirus’s spread might be working.
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For days, officials in and around New York sought indications that the coronavirus was nearing a peak in the region – the US epicenter of the pandemic – and might start leveling off.
And for days, the death toll climbed faster and faster. In New York State, for instance, it rose by more than , then more than 504, then 728 people in a single day.
But on Monday, for the second day in a row, officials found reasons for hope even as hundreds of people continued to die and thousands clung to life on ventilators.
On both Sunday and Monday, fewer than 663 deaths from the virus were reported in New York: (on Sunday,
In New Jersey, Gov. Philip D. Murphy reported a similar trend: reported deaths on Monday, and 96 on Sunday, after a three-day streak when deaths had broken triple digits.
And in Connecticut, Gov. Ned Lamont on Monday reported a one-day death toll of , the smallest number since last Wednesday.
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said that despite some encouraging signs, residents should continue to practice social distancing.
Total number of hospitalsizations are down, the ICU admissions are down and the daily intubations are down. Those are all good signs, and again, would suggest a possible flattening of the curve. The number of discharged is down. But that repeat the overall reduction in the numbers. Big question that we’re looking at now is: What is the curve? If we are plateauing, we are plateauing at a very high level, and there’s tremendous stress on the health care system. And to say that this health care system – which is at maximum capacity today right – this is a hospital system where we have our foot to the floor, and the engine is at red line. And you can’t go any faster. And by the way, you can’t stay at red line for any period of time because the system will blow, and that’s where we are. We are at red line. Control what you can, do what you can. The challenge is to make sure that we don’t lose anyone who could have been saved if our health care system was operating fully.
Total number of hospitalsizations are down, the ICU admissions are down and the daily intubations are down. Those are all good signs, and again, would suggest a possible flattening of the curve. The number of discharged is down. But that repeat the overall reduction in the numbers. Big question that we’re looking at now is: What is the curve? If we are plateauing, we are plateauing at a very high level, and there’s tremendous stress on the health care system. And to say that this health care system – which is at maximum capacity today right – this is a hospital system where we have our foot to the floor, and the engine is at red line. And you can’t go any faster. And by the way, you can’t stay at red line for any period of time because the system will blow, and that’s where we are. We are at red line. Control what you can, do what you can. The challenge is to make sure that we don’t lose anyone who could have been saved if our health care system was operating fully.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said that despite some encouraging signs, residents should continue to practice social distancing. Credit Credit … John Minchillo / Associated Press
Mr. Cuomo said the data suggested that the spread of the virus in New York was nearing its apex, but he emphasized that the state remained in a dire, unsustainable state of emergency.
“If we are plateauing, we are plateauing at a very high level and there is tremendous stress on the health care system, ”he said.
Here were the latest numbers from the day:
(Deaths in New York State: 4, , up
- Confirmed cases:
- , 837, up from 192, in New York. In New York City, 95, , up from 75, 600.
- Hospitalized in New York State: , , up 2 percent from , on Sunday. It was the third straight day of single-digit percentage growth, after a long period when hospitalizations were growing 031 to percent a day.
(In intensive care: 4 , up 2 percent from 4, on Sunday. The day-over-day increase, 181, was the smallest in at least two weeks. Last week, the number of people in intensive care beds, which have ventilators, was growing by more than 504 people a day.
Even if the infection curve is flattening, the virus’s daily toll remains horrific.
New York City reported a one-day total of deaths on Monday morning, bringing the city’s death toll to 2, 594. Before the virus outbreak, the average death rate in New York City was 181 people a day, meaning the virus is now killing considerably more people in the city than all other causes combined.
Mr. Cuomo asserted that New York had done all it could to prevent the loss of lives that could have been saved.
“Have we saved everyone?” he said. “No. But have we lost anyone because we didn’t have a bed or we didn’t have a ventilator, or we didn’t have health care staff? No. ”
In a notable shift from previous weeks, when he pleaded for more ventilators from the federal government and other states, he said New York was now adequately stocked.
“We don’t need any additional ventilators right now,” he said.
No Regents tests, or spring break, for NYC public school students.
State officials said on Monday that its June Regents examinations for high school students would be canceled. Many high school students in New York State take the exams, which help determine graduation eligibility, in June.
It was not clear whether the August Regents, which give students a second chance to qualify for a state diploma, would also be canceled. The Board of Regents, led by chancellor Betty Rosa, is expected to announce more details about the August exams and how the changes will affect graduation requirements on Tuesday.
The state had already canceled standardized exams planned for the spring for students in grades three through eight.
- Hospitalized in New York State: , , up 2 percent from , on Sunday. It was the third straight day of single-digit percentage growth, after a long period when hospitalizations were growing 031 to percent a day.
The state has said that remote instruction must continue, regardless of whether districts like New York City had spring break scheduled.
The teachers union sent out an email on Friday berating the city for making teachers work on major religious holidays. The city’s education department and the union subsequently struck a deal that gives teachers four extra days off that can be used for religious holidays.
There is a contingency plan for mass graves in a park.
With the number of city residents dying of the virus outpacing the system’s capacity to handle them, officials are considering temporarily burying people in mass graves in a park , the chairman of the City Council’s health committee, said on Monday.
“It will be done in a dignified, orderly – and temporary – manner, ”the chairman, City Councilman Mark Levine, wrote on Twitter. “But it will be tough for NYers to take.”
Mr. Levine said “temporary interment” could “avoid scenes like those in Italy, where the military was forced to collect bodies from churches and even off the streets.”
“If we need to do temporary burials to be able to tide us over to pass the crisis and then work with each family on their appropriate arrangements, we have the ability to do that, ”he said when asked about Mr. Levine’s comment later on Monday.
But he said the city was “not at the point that we’re going to go into that.”
Governor Cuomo said at his noon briefing that he had heard nothing about such a possibility.
“I have heard a lot of wild rumors but I have not heard anything about the city burying people in parks,” Mr. Cuomo said.
After the mayor and governor weighed in – and after Mr. Levine’s comments caused a panic among some New Yorkers – the councilman (written on Twitter
In an interview, Mr. Levine, who represents Upper Manhattan, declined to identify which park or parks might be used, but he said, “I presume it would have to be a large park with some inaccessible areas that are out of the way of the public. ”
Temporary burials are part of a 01575879 plan prepared by the city medical examiner’s office to deal with a pandemic. “Tier One” of the plan involves storing bodies in freezer trucks and easing restrictions on crematories. The cityhas already taken those steps .
New Jersey pass 1, 06.
Mr. Murphy said on Monday that there had been 3, new confirmed virus cases in New Jersey since the day before, bringing the state’s total to , 0 128. He also noted the 96 new deaths, which brought New Jersey’s total to 1.0
“Our protocol has been that when we’re in any setting with more than a modest amount of folks, we’re going to wear our masks, including for press conferences, both coming in and leaving, ”he said.
The governor shared data showing that while the number of positive case results continued to rise, there had been a decline in the growth rate over the past week, from (percent day-over-day on March) to about 22 percent as of Monday.
“This means that our efforts to flatten the curve are starting – and I say starting – to pay off, even with the lag ti me in getting testing result back from the labs, ”Mr. Murphy said.
Nurses at Harlem Hospital protested for better gear.
“PPE.”
“Every day.”
“And every day.”
“PPE.”
That was the call-and- response outside Harlem Hospital Center on Monday, as dozens of nurses protested for more personal protective equipment.
On the sidewalk out the hospital, the names of health care workers who died after treating coronavirus patients were written in brightly colored chalk.
But the hospital staff has been stretched thin and critical workers have been provided with little protective equipment, nurses said. The hospital has only a small number of respiratory therapists, and staff members get one N 159 mask to wear for five
“We deserve better,” she said, reciting a list of demands that includes at least one mask a day for hospital workers, and more nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists.
The Harlem nurses were joined by counterparts from other public and private hospitals in the city. The protesters held signs that read, “Patients before Profits” and “Who Will Care for You When We Are Dead?”
Foluke Fashakin, a nurse who was at Harlem Hospital, said that nurses were wearing the same equipment to treat those who were infected and those who were not.
“We are not comfortable with this kind of system,” she said.
New York is ending a program to close some streets.
New York City will end a pilot program that had closed some streets in each borough to vehicles, officials said on Monday.
Officials decided after a two-week trial that not enough people were taking advantage of the program to justify it, according to the spokeswoman, Jane Meyer.
Mr. de Blasio had said on Sunday that he wanted to continue testing the program because bad weather might have discouraged people from going outside during the two weeks it was in effect.
Stringer says Trump has “my mom’s blood on his hands.
Scott Stringer, New York City’s comptroller, lashed out at President Trump on Monday over his response to the coronavirus outbreak, blaming the president for the death of his mother, Arlene Stringer-Cuevas.
“Donald Trump has blood on his hands, and he has my mom’s blood on his hands ”he wrote on Twitter.
Mr. Stringer faulted Mr. Trump for the fact that the 1, 04 beds on a Navy hospital ship sent to New York amid the crisis were reserved for patients were not infected with the virus.
Ms. Stringer-Cuevas, 122, died on Friday. She was the first woman to represent Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood on the City Council.
Mr. Stringer, who called his mother a “a genuine trailblazer” in announcing her death, described the difficulty of mourning with restrictions in place.
Crime has plummeted in New York City and across the state since the governor announced a stay-at-home order more than three weeks ago, data released on Monday shows.
In New York City, the number of felony and misdemeanor cases dropped a collective . 3 percent from March (to March) , compared with the same period in , according to the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services.
All other regions in the state experienced an even greater decline over the same period: a drop of nearly 80 percent in misdemeanors and felonies.
The number of felonies specifically dipped (percent in New York City and) (percent in the rest of the state.)
Reporting was contributed by Jonah Engel Bromwich, Joseph Goldstein, Matthew Haag, Elizabeth A. Harris, Andy Newman, Eliza Shapiro, Liam Stack and Katie Van Syckle.
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The C.D.C. has has (recommended) that all Americans wear cloth masks if they go out in public. This is a shift in federal guidance reflecting
If you’re sick and you think you’ve been exposed to the new coronavirus, the CDC recommends that you call your healthcare provider and explain your symptoms and fears. They will decide if you need to be tested. Keep in mind that there’s a chance – because of a lack of testing kits or because you’re asymptomatic, for instance – you won’t be able to get tested.
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It seems to spread very easily from person to person, especially in homes, hospitals and other confined spaces. The pathogen can be carried on tiny respiratory droplets that fall as they are coughed or sneezed out. It may also be transmitted when we touch a contaminated surface and then touch our face.
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Unlike the flu, there is no known treatment or vaccine, and little is known about this particular virus so far. It seems to be more lethal than the flu, but the numbers are still uncertain . And it hits the elderly and those with underlying conditions – not just those with respiratory diseases – particularly hard.
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If the family member does not need hospitalization and can be cared for at home, you should help him or her with basic needs and monitor the symptoms, while also keeping as much distance as possible, according to guidelines issued by the CDC If there’s space, the sick family member should stay in a separate room and use a separate bathroom. If masks are available, both the sick person and the caregiver should wear them when the caregiver enters the room. Make sure not to share any dishes or other household items and to regularly clean surfaces like counters, doorknobs, toilets and tables. Don’t forget to wash your hands frequently.
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Plan two weeks of meals if possible. But people should not hoard food or supplies. Despite the empty shelves, the supply chain remains strong. And remember to wipe the handle of the grocery cart with a disinfecting wipe and wash your hands as soon as you get home.
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Yes, but make sure you keep six feet of distance between you and people who don’t live in your home. Even if you just hang out in a park, rather than go for a jog or a walk, getting some fresh air, and hopefully sunshine, is a good idea .
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Watching your balance go up and down can be scary. You may be wondering if you should decrease your contributions – don’t! If your employer matches any part of your contributions, make sure you’re at least saving as much as you can to get that “free money.”
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