Face of Nation International : New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo opens his daily coronavirus briefings with the good news: Hospitalization rates are down, the rate of ICU patients fell to a new low and the curve of cases is starting to flatten.
Then the bad news, which has gotten increasingly worse over the past three days: a new record number of deaths. New York’s death toll reached 799 on Wednesday, surpassing the 779 who died the day before and the 731 who died April 6, the governor said Thursday. Cuomo then put the unprecedented fatalities in perspective: New York has lost 7,067 people to coronavirus so far. On 9/11, 2,753 people died in New York.
Data released on New York coronavirus deaths: Most had these underlying illnesses; 61% were men
The growing number of deaths, mainly in New York City and its suburbs, has gotten so drastic that Cuomo said the state is working to bring in more funeral home directors to help. “If you ever have told me as governor that I would have to take these actions, I couldn’t even contemplate where we are now,” Cuomo said.
He added, “9/11 was supposed to be the darkest day in New York for a generation,” and now the coronavirus has swept through New York worse than any state in the nation with the same randomness and “same evil as 9/11.” (Source: USAToday News – USA)
