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According to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, 391 people in New York State died of the coronavirus since yesterday, bringing the state’s total to 1,941.
Cuomo’s brother and CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was diagnosed with Covid-19, but despite fever and chills was doing well and quarantined in his basement where he went on air from last night. Medical personnel, short on personal protective equipment, struggled to triage the many patients in overflowing hospitals. As hospital morgues filled, bodies were being stacked in refrigerated trucks outside.
Thirty-one days after the region recorded its first case of a Manhattan woman in her thirties who traveled to Iran, the number of confirmed cases of the virus passed 100,000 today. All city parks are now closed due to people not practicing proper social distancing.
A temporary 68-bed treatment center was set up in Central Park’s East Meadow and designed to treat overflow patients from Mount Sinai Hospital. But it’s been controversial, as the group responsible for organizing it is Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical Christian organization with strict anti-LGBTQ policies. It’s run by Franklin Graham, the son of famous televangelist Billy Graham.
The U.S. Navy SNS Comfort hospital ship arrived in New York City two days ago, providing 1,000 beds and 12 operating rooms to be used for non-coronavirus patients.
