by JV Web editor
- The number of confirmed cases jumped by 7,200 in one day in NY putting the total of confirmed cases at 59,513 cases as of Sunday. More than half of the cases, or 33,768, are in New York City, according to the latest figures from the city and state, as Stated during Cuomo’s Sunday update
- “I don’t think there’s any way to look at those numbers,” Mr. Cuomo said, “without seeing thousands of people pass away.” Cuomo announced 237 people had died since the day before, the largest on one-day increase since the coronavirus outbreak began. This brings the death toll to 672
- The number of confirmed cases jumped by 7,200 in one day, putting the total of confirmed cases at 59,513 cases as of Sunday. More than half of the cases, or 33,768, are in New York City, according to the latest figures from the city and state, provided by Cuomo
- .About 8,500 people are currently hospitalized, an increase of 16 percent from Saturday to Sunday. Of those, 2,037 are in intensive care units, which are equipped with ventilators, according to NY Post
- Queens has been the hardest-hit by number of cases, hitting five-digits Sunday with 10,373. The borough is trailed by Brooklyn (8,451), then The Bronx (6,145) and Manhattan (5,438), with Staten Island bringing up the rear (1,866). Cuomo sais we are hitting an apex of the pandemic at a slower rate
- “New York city has about 56% of all new infections in the country. That’s terrible suffering for the people of New York. I feel that personally as a New Yorker,” Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told CNN Sunday morning. He added the US could see hundreds and thousands of deaths and millions of infections
- Fauci added that on Saturday night he and other top health officials persuaded Trump that his idea of imposing a forced quarantine on New York City was not a good idea. Instead, he agreed to a travel advisory that New Yorkers and others in the Tri-State area should “refrain from non-essential domestic travel for 14 days”.
- “We have enough supplies to get to a week from today, with the exception of ventilators, we’re going to need at least several hundred more ventilators very quickly,” Mayor de Blasio said in an appearance Sunday morning on CNN. “We are going to need a reinforcement.’’
- Mr. de Blasio also brushed off criticism that he acted too slowly to respond to the spread of coronavirus in New York City,, when CNN played clips January, February and in early March in which he repeatedly told New Yorkers to go about their lives as they normally would, he responded by saying ” “Everybody was working with the information we had and trying, of course, to avoid panic,” Mr. de Blasio said. “This was a very different world just a short time ago. But the bottom line is, none of us have time to look backwards. I’m trying to figure out how we get through to Sunday, next Sunday, and then what we do the week after that.”, NY Times summarized
- Nancy Pelosi appeared on CNN as well, and brutally attacked President Trump. “What did he know and when did he know it?” ““as the president fiddles, people are dying”. It is important to point out that the WHO only on January 28th told the entire world, that COVID-19 can not be spread from person to person, and based this information from the Chinese Communist Party. You can literally see the tweets from the WHO on their Twitter account.(editors note)
