Queens is emerging as the epicenter of the epicenter in New York City as the city reveals a borough by borough map which highlights the neighborhoods reporting the most positive cases. The death toll in the city rose to 450 as of early Saturday morning as its healthcare system is threatened with imminent collapse. On … Read more
President Trump is considering quarantining New York, Connecticut and New Jersey in desperate efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The move will restrict travel to and from the three states. ‘We’d like to see New York quarantined because it’s a hotspot — New York, New Jersey, maybe one or two other places, … Read more
State emergency plans to ration ventilators if the coronavirus pandemic worsens are raising thorny ethical questions, as New York considers lotteries for access to the machines and other states contemplate denying them to those with mental disabilities. The White House says that as yet, no one has been denied a ventilator who needed one. But … Read more
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed on Friday that the state’s coronavirus death toll was now 603 an increase of 134 in just one day, as he gave a rallying call to action to National Guard to ‘kick coronavirus a*s’ from a new, 1,000-bed field hospital at the Javits Center. There are now more than … Read more
Two New York City hospital systems are barring partners from delivery rooms as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across the US. New York-Presbyterian and Mount Sinai Health System – which have a combined 18 hospitals – say no visitors will be permitted in rooms where pregnant women are giving birth. Several obstetricians and midwives … Read more
New York doctors urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban all tobacco products after experts warn smokers and vapers may be more vulnerable to coronavirus infection New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been asked by a group of doctors to issue an executive order that would ban the sale of all tobacco products The group points … Read more
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed on Friday that the state’s coronavirus death toll was now 519, an increase of 134 in just one day, as he gave a rallying call to action to National Guard to ‘kick coronavirus a*s’ before the pandemic peak arrives. There are now more than 44,000 cases of infection in … Read more
New York is converting anesthesia machines to ventilators for coronavirus patients in an attempt to make up for the impending shortage of the life-saving devices, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday. The state has become the the epicenter of the US epidemic of COVID-19, with more than 37,258 people who have tested positive for the virus. … Read more
The streets are so dead now you can hear the ambulance sirens from a long way off. And you hear them more and more. Yesterday, one came for an old lady at the end of my block, a squad of masked medics milling around the stretcher as she was wheeled into an ambulance and away … Read more
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday that new evidence suggests social distancing is ‘working’ in slowing down coronavirus, with the rate of hospitalizations slowing every day this week, but that we were ‘still on our way up the mountain’. There are now 30,000 cases of coronavirus in the state of New York, including … Read more