NYC has become the epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, with more than 21,000 known cases and 281 deaths as of March 26. Doctors in the city are overwhelmed as hospitals are in desperate need of supplies, staff, and bed space (1/7) NBCNewsThreads
The doctor said she has feared New York City could become as overwhelmed as Italy, where the virus quickly spread to more than 75,000 known cases and more people have died than in China.“It’s just like a tidal wave,” another Elmhurst Hospital doctor, who spoke on condition of anonymity,an independent, nonprofit news organization. “The only beds we’ve been able to free up are people who have died.”
The federal government was sending 2,000 ventilators to New York City, but the city is asking for 15,000, Mayor Bill de Blasio has said.Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / Getty Images Anthony Almojera, the vice president of the New York City Fire Department's EMS officers union, said EMS services had been receiving record calls.
Christopher Miller, a NYC Health + Hospitals, spokesperson told THE CITY: “Elmhurst is at the center of this crisis, and it’s the number one priority of our public hospital system right now.”
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