The COVID-19 tsunami is likely to strike New York so hard to the point where authorities are going so far as to build a temporary morgue due to the many deaths expected at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.
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Within three weeks, the healthcare system is at risk of being completely overburdened with sick people and deaths, NBC News reports, and public health officials are bracing for the worst.
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The city’s chief medical examiner did in fact plan the construction of the morgue, complete with refrigerated trucks, to deal with the many deaths.
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The measure had already been implemented during the attacks of September 11, 2001, and coincides with the declaration of state of emergency signed a little over a week ago by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
As of Thursday more than 33,000 cases have been confirmed in New York State, an increase of more than 5,000 in less than 24 hours.
Nearly 366 people have died from COVID-19 in this neighboring state of Quebec since the start of the crisis.
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