Thousands of people with the coronavirus are still streaming into hospitals in New York and its suburbs daily. Hundreds are dying. That harsh reality stands in contrast to hopeful talk about getting people back to work in parts of the U.S.
Pedestrians cross second avenue Thursday, April 16, 2020, in New York. New York planned for a long fight against the coronavirus outbreak amid hopeful hospitalization trends. Gov. Andrew Cuomo extended stay-at-home restrictions Thursday through mid-May and New York City is getting ready to use 11,000 empty hotel rooms for coronavirus quarantines.
New York hospitals are still jammed with nearly 18,000 coronavirus patients, fewer than the crushing numbers authorities once feared but still at crisis levels that have barely budged for more than a week. Nearly 4,400 of those patients were on ventilators, the majority of whom, if past trends hold, are unlikely to survive.
Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song,” now played every time someone comes off a ventilator, resounds several times a day, giving staffers a morale boost. But colleagues told Petty they were busy with cardiac arrest calls all night Wednesday. “Everybody coming back to work at once — what does that mean?” said Julio Alvia, a 27-year-old video editor. “Do we go back to gridlock and crowded sidewalks, lines and handshakes? Can that happen? I don’t think that it can.”
“I said, ‘You know, I know you want to restart the economy. So do we. But the worst possible scenario is take your foot off the gas prematurely, the disease has a resurgence. Then everything you’re doing to try and restart, you have to stop, you have to go backwards, you have to add more restrictions you have to slow down the timeline further and you’re gonna end up waiting a long, long time before you can get people back to normal,’” de Blasio said.
Cuomo has outlined some basic philosophies for how to restart economic activity, but he insists it’s unrealistic to bring the state’s 9 million workers back to the job without mass testing, isolation of infected people and tracing of people who had contact with them.Restarting New York City also represents an unprecedented logistical challenge, involving countless bars, Broadway shows, shops, restaurants and other businesses.
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