The death toll in New York from coronavirus already surpasses 9/11 victims | Society

A total of 4,009 people have died in New York City from coronavirus, raising the figure above the 2,753 fatalities left by the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 (2,977 died in total, adding the Pentagon and Pennsylvania attacks). This symbolic and tragic level, confirmed by the data collected by the Johns Hopkins center, arrived on an ambivalent day in the State of New York, ground zero of this pandemic in the United States.

Between Monday and Tuesday, New York registered the largest daily increase in deaths from Covid-19. 731 people died, after two days in which the death toll remained below 600. However, as Governor Andrew Cuomo indicated in his daily press conference, there is other data that invite some optimism. In particular, the number of patients admitted to intensive care, which climbed by only 89 people, the most moderate increase since last March 21. As of early afternoon Tuesday, there were more than 138,000 confirmed cases in the state, and a total of 5,489 deaths had been recorded.

The Democratic governor was optimistic about how hospitals are taking on the increase in patients, after efforts to increase the number of beds and professionals available. He even assured that we must start planning how to reopen the economy “when appropriate.” And he recalled that the signs of optimism are due to the fact that the population is respecting social distancing. “If we see a possible flattening or a plateau [en la curva de propagación del virus]That’s what we are doing, and we must continue to do so, ”he said.

This is the week that the Donald Trump Administration has defined as “the saddest hard” due to the expected deaths as a result of the virus. “This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment or our 9/11 moment, frankly,” Jerome Adams, the US surgeon general, warned Sunday. “It’s just not going to be that localized. It’s going to happen all over the country, ”he added. The country, with 330 million inhabitants, has exceeded 398,000 infected and 12,800 deceased.

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