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New York City is now a warzone.
As coronavirus hot spots flare across America, the nation’s biggest city has been hit hard -- and it shows.
”It’s like a battlefield behind your home,” said 33-year-old Emma Sorza, who could hear the sirens from severely swamped Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.
The worst is yet to come.
“How does it end? And people want answers,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “I want answers. The answer is nobody knows for sure.”
New York’s COVID-19 death count more than doubled in 72 hours to 1,941 as of Wednesday.
One month after New York discovered its first infection -- a health care worker returning from Iran -- the state has tallied more than 83,000 positive cases. The 1,941 deaths were up from 965 on Sunday morning. New York logged its first virus-related death on March 13, an 82-year-old woman with emphysema.
With more than 12,000 people hospitalized, Cuomo said the latest outbreak projections show no respite this month.
“What we’re looking at now is the apex -- the top of the curve -- roughly at the end of April, which means another month of this,” Cuomo said at a state Capitol news briefing.
One model cited by Cuomo projected 16,000 deaths in New York once the outbreak runs its course in the coming months, though the governor stressed it’s unclear how the pandemic will end.
“Nobody knows what’s going to happen. And I understand the need for closure, the need for control,” he said. “We’re at a place we’ve never been before.”
Worldwide, more than 900,000 people have been infected and over 45,000 have died, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University, though the real figures are believed to be much higher because of testing shortages, differences in counting the dead and large numbers of mild cases that have gone unreported.
The U. S. recorded about 210,000 infections and about 4,600 deaths, with New York City accounting for about 1 out of 4 dead.
Nearly 6,200 New York City police officers, or one-sixth of the department, were out sick Wednesday, including about 4,800 who reported flu-like systems, though it was not clear how many had the virus.
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