Posted on 03/31/2020 3:46:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MADRID - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo begged for health care reinforcements, saying up to 1 million more workers were needed to fight the coronavirus, while the World Health Organization warned Tuesday that the pandemic was far from over in Asia.
Spain and Italy were still struggling to avoid the collapse of their health systems, with Spain saying hospitals in at least half of its 17 regions are at or very near their ICU bed limits and 14% of its 88,000 reported infections are medical workers.
The United States was poised Tuesday to overtake China’s reported virus death toll of 3,300. But experts say all numbers reported by governments and states in this pandemic are faulty in different ways, due to the lack of testing, mild virus cases that are missed or the determination of some governments to try to seize and shape their pandemic narrative.
In New York, the epicenter of the American outbreak, Cuomo and health officials warned that the crisis unfolding there is just a preview of what other U.S. cities and towns will soon face. New York state’s death toll climbed by more than 250 people in a day to over 1,200, most of them in the city.
“We’ve lost over 1,000 New Yorkers,” Cuomo said. “To me, we’re beyond staggering already.”
Even before the governor’s appeal, close to 80,000 former nurses, doctors and other professionals were stepping up to volunteer in New York, and a Navy hospital ship had arrived with 1,000 beds to relieve pressure on the city’s overwhelmed hospitals.
In California, officials put out a similar call for medical volunteers as coronavirus hospitalizations doubled over the last four days and the number of patients in intensive care tripled.
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A million....pulled that out of the air. Ridiculous...
How come you didn’t need health care workers for the flu?
The same piece of crap that said Christians and their values were not welcome in NY, is now begging for the same Christians to come and save them. What a POS.
Well, sure, we will train up that million or so health workers right away, Andrew, and earmark them all for immediate dispatch to New York city and state.
This isn’t like building respirators, you know.
Hyperbole much, Governor?
A million, my derriere.
Cuomo has gone off his rocker.
She and Mayor Nagin (now in Federal prison for bribery and corruption) were incompetent fools, who could only blame GW Bush and the Federal government for their own malfeasance.
While still dealing with the aftermath of Katrina, and Rita about to hit, she sends a memo to President Bush, requesting something like 250,000 additional military to deal with Rita.
I was working military hurricane relief at the time, and we thought when we read it: "Hey, why not ask for 250,000,000?
Because this is worse than the flu?
They want volunteers but they have 25 million for the Kennedy Center? F them.
This clown Governor sure does protest a lot, give me, give me, give me. Seems he is a victim of his own mismanagement and ideology. Deblasio just compounds their problems.
NYS needs more Healthcare workers, and not just for epidemics.
Thanks to Albany’s out of control spending and over-regulation, we can’t afford them.
Note the weasel word modifier. "I never said a million!"
It’s not anything close to as bad as H1N1, and the numbers clearly show that.
Try again.
Because Cuomo is running for president by always crying for more.
That’s why he had 2000 ventilators hidden away in NJ. That’s why he’s now centralizing all hospital anything, public or private: https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/whiteplains/news/covid-19-ny-launches-statewide-public-private-hospital-command-center-to-share-equipment/785828/
Put the two together and maybe that’s why Trump said they’re shipping supplies directly to hospitals in NYC now?
One million is one out of nine people in NYC, one of maybe sixteen in NYS. These guys suck.
Well with all of the schools closed you’re not going to get any recent graduates of various med programs who would have been on the job market In a couple of months.
Well then doctor, why on earth is President Trump calling this the "unseen enemy" and closing down the economy, not to mention sending hospital ships to NYC & the West Coast?
“Because this is worse than the flu?”
Well, it’s certainly in addition to the flu cases.
We’ll see how bad it gets.
The country is at 3,200 or so deaths right now, and we have 3,600 or so serious or worse cases of CV19.
NYS certainly is a very hot spot and an outlier when put next to the rest of the country. Really NYC though.
NJ, the next closest state, has only ~1/4 of the problem NYS has.
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