“We’re flattening the curve, we’ve had a net increase in hospitalizations of 200,” which is “the lowest number we’ve had since this nightmare began,” the governor said during his daily update on the epidemic.
The past few days have all marked daily death records – the latest was on Wednesday with 779 dead. This state of nearly 20 million people now has more than 7,000 dead, according to figures given daily by the governor, nearly half of the more than 14,800 deaths recorded in the United States by Johns Hopkins University.
But while qualifying as “shocking” this new record, the governor, for the third consecutive day, pointed out the “good news” that is the drop in the number of new hospitalizations as the drop in intensive care admissions.
He also stressed that the worst scenarios of the different projection models did not seem to materialize, thanks to the containment and distancing measures, and the measures taken to increase the capacity of the hospital system.
But he again called for “not to relax” the containment measures he extended until April 29, despite their dramatic consequences.
“We cannot assume that, because we are seeing positive signals, all of this will end soon or that we will not be touched by new waves.”
While the toll of the epidemic in New York greatly exceeded that of the attacks of September 11, 2001, he stressed that the economic consequences would be much more serious.
September 11 was “an emotional, physical and cultural catastrophe, it gave us a feeling of vulnerability that we had never had,” said the governor.
“But for the economy (the pandemic) is more devastating”.
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