New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during his daily news conference amid the coronavirus outbreak on March 20, 2020 in New York City.New York Gov.
Andrew Cuomo issued an emergency order Monday directing hospitals to increase their capacity by 50% as coronavirus cases across the state surged 38% overnight to 20,875.
New York is the hardest-hit state in the country behind New Jersey, Cuomo said. On Sunday, Cuomo said the state had 15,168 cases, more than France or South Korea were reporting at the time and those numbers are expected to dramatically rise as the state ramps up testing. Cuomo said New York is now testing more than 16,000 people a day.
Cuomo has said he worries the outbreak will stretch U.S. hospitals to their maximum capacity, saying the nation doesn't have enough hospital beds to handle a pandemic. Hospitals across the nation are running low on personal protective equipment. Cuomo said the state has had some luck finding extra gear for doctors and nurses and is sending hundreds of thousands of surgical masks, N95 masks, gloves and gowns to hospitals across the state.
He said he would have liked for hospitals to increase their capacity by 100%, but added that would be unreasonable. "I think it's unreasonable to tell hospitals to double their capacity," Cuomo said. "They must increase by 50% at least."of their workforce at home and put in place stringent new restrictions on New Yorkers.
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