Coronavirus Update: USNS Comfort Hospital Ship Will Now Accept COVID-19 Patients
The hospital ship moored in New York Harbor one week ago to help free up beds at hard-hit hospitals, and was thought to be here to treat non-coronavirus patients only.
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The hospital ship moored in New York Harbor one week ago to help free up beds at hard-hit hospitals, and was thought to be here to treat non-coronavirus patients only.
Gov. Cuomo has extended the closure of schools and businesses to April 29 under his PAUSE policy to contain the outbreak.
"If we had 20 to 24 ventilators running before, that would be considered a lot. Right now we are operating 50-65 ventilators. And we have not had an increase in staffing," said Daniel Bellevue, a respiratory therapist at Woodhull Hospital.
Officials say not enough people took advantage of the program to justify the police manpower.
The holidays may look a little different this spring through experts have tips on how to keep Passover celebrations as normal as possible.
New York City has closed all dog runs, adding to the list of public spaces shut to enforce social distancing across the city amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
It's the first known case of an animal being sick with the virus in the entire country.
Local companies are hard at work there manufacturing hospital gowns and personal protective equipment amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Lin-Manuel Miranda and the original cast of "Hamilton" took to video chat to make one 9-year-old girl's dreams come true.
There are more than 122,000 cases statewide, and more than 4,100 people have died.
Among fear and anxiety, another emotion is gripping New York City. It's gratitude for those on the front lines of the pandemic battle.
MTA officials said flames erupted on one of the cars of a northbound 2 train as it pulled into the 110th Street-Central Park North station.
Untermyer Park and Gardens in Yonkers is closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, but it's putting its flowers to good use.
"We thought as early as tonight there was the possibility of running out of crucial equipment like ventilators," de Blasio said.
"We're looking at this seriously now, because by the data we could be either very near the apex, or the apex could be a plateau, and we could be on that plateau right now," Cuomo said.
