‘Bullet Train:’ NY Infection Rate Accelerates at Alarming Rate

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‘Bullet Train:’ NY Infection Rate Accelerates at Alarming Rate, Cuomo Warns of Imminent Peak as Cases Near 26K

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo sounded his loudest alarm yet on New York's coronavirus crisis Tuesday, warning the curve was showing no signs of flattening out and was in fact rising faster and more dangerously than projected. He said last week that peak infection was 45 days out; now, he says, the state may see it in two weeks.

"The apex is higher than we thought and the apex is sooner than we thought. that is a bad combination of facts," the governor said in his daily briefing Tuesday.

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The ventilator situation is so dire that the governor said hospitals are experimenting with a technique that would enable two patients to share a ventilator; the state is working on that "as we speak."

The federal government has sent some supplies, including masks and gowns and another 400 ventilators that arrived in New York City this week. Mayor Bill de Blasio has said the city needs 15,000 - the state needs double that. As Cuomo said Tuesday, "What are we going to do with 400 ventilators when we did 30,000?"

One in 1,000 people in the NYC metro area are infected, the White House's coronavirus response coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, said Monday, adding that the coronavirus "had been circulating there for a number of weeks to have this level of penetrance into the general community."

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A lot of manufacturing companies are being licensed to make ventilators (including Ford, General Motors, and Tesla), but they will be producing about 3,000 per week- and that's not really for another 3-4 weeks.

The ventilator shortage is hitting New York sooner than expected although I think the state is grossly overestimating how many they need.

Everyone is doing their best remedy this (both public and private sector), but it just isn't enough.