Dr. Marc Siegel warns that New York City hospitals are already “stretched thin” with patients “overflowing wards.”
, Fox News medical analyst and professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, told Fox News on Wednesday that New York City hospitals are already “stretched thin” with patients “overflowing wards.”hospitals is they have way more patients than they anticipated or know what to do with and it is impossible to develop isolation or quarantine in these circumstances,” Siegel said.
He also suggested they would try to produce more surgical masks but emphasized that masks should not replace respirators. Siegel expressed optimism about 4,400 ventilators that were to arrive in New York City shortly. The city regularly has 6,000 ventilators at most.However, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for 30,000 ventilators to be shipped to the state and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has said the city might need 15,000 ventilators by the time the pandemic comes to a halt.
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