New York governor says the rate of Covid-19 infections is doubling about every three days
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New York has 10 times more cases than California, which has about 2,800 cases, he said, adding that the apex of the New York infections will hit in as soon as 14 days, higher and sooner than expected.The state now expects it will need as many as 140,000 hospital beds, up from an earlier projection of 110,000. The state has 53,000 hospital beds and 3,000 ICU beds, but will need as many as 40,000 ICU beds. “These are troubling and astronomical numbers,” he said.
“Clearly, the virus had been circulating there for a number of weeks to have this level of [penetration] into the general community,” Birx said.
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