DThe hospital beds are not lined up side by side. In the overcrowded emergency rooms coughs from all corners. Overworked doctors, nurses and carers have to get by with one face mask per day. And the vital ventilators are also becoming fewer and fewer.
The hospitals in New York City are almost like those in Italy, where thousands have died from the virus in the past few weeks. The metropolis is the center of the corona crisis in the USA. 56 percent of the confirmed coronavirus cases in the country have been found in the New York area, said US corona commissioner Deborah Birx on Tuesday in the White House.
To prevent the virus from spreading even faster to the whole country, everyone who recently visited the metropolis should go into isolation at home for 14 days.
The governor speaks of war-like conditions
As of Tuesday (local time), almost 14,800 people in New York City had been infected with the virus that causes the lung disease Covid-19 – and that’s just the number confirmed after tests. More than 2,200 had to be hospitalized, around 500 of which were treated in the intensive care unit.
The death toll rose by Tuesday according to Johns Hopkins University on 192, still far from the figures from Italy, but doctors and leading politicians such as Governor Andrew Cuomo are already talking about war-like conditions, as they became known two weeks ago from clinics in Bergamo and elsewhere.
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With developments in Italy in mind, Cuomo is certain that things will get worse in the next few days – and in a dramatic way. Especially because the promised aid from the federal government in Washington is still a long way off.