By noon on Thursday, New York state had 37,258 confirmed cases -- more than half the cases in the entire country -- making it the epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S., and a harbinger of what other hotspots can expect.
March 26, 2020 -- On a sunny, early spring day in Woodside, Queens, you’d expect to hear the shouts of children at recess from a nearby school, rumbling trucks making deliveries, music blasting out of car windows. Instead, right now the only sound is the occasional wail of a siren, another ambulance transporting another patient to one of the city’s COVID-19-crowded hospitals. Elmhurst Hospital, the closest one, lost 13 patients to COVID in a single day.in the U.S.
In order to treat all those patients, hospitals will require more workers. Cuomo put out a call for retired health care professionals to volunteer. More than 50,000 have signed up.For the most critical cases, the situation is grim. Ventilators, which breathe for patients who can’t breathe on their own, are in demand. Non-coronavirus cases usually remain on the machines for 3 to 4 days. But COVID-19 patients tend to need ventilators for 11-21 days, stretching the limited supply even further.
“The number of ventilators we need is so astronomical, it’s not like they have them sitting in a warehouse in the federal government,” Cuomo says. “You have to find those ventilators or convert them, or get companies to manufacture more.” All of the more than 1,800 intensive care beds in the city are expected to be filled by Friday, according to a report in the“ICU’s are not a fixed asset anymore,” the mayor said in a press briefing. The City is converting regular rooms to be used for intensive care. “We conceivably could have a hospital that's all ICU.”The tsunami of cases affects more than just the hospitals’ facilities. For some health care workers, personal protective equipment is in short supply. At Mt.
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