New York City (Reuters) – Even as physicians and nurses struggled to save an attack of seriously ill coronavirus patients, the number of brand-new COVID-19 hospitalizations seemed leveling off in New York state, the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, Guv Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday.
Both New York City and the neighboring state of New Jersey reported their single-highest day-to-day loss of life from COVID-19, the extremely contagious breathing disease triggered by the virus – a staggering 731 fatalities in Cuomo’s state alone.
New york city’s cumulative death toll of 5,489 accounts for nearly half of some 12,500 coronavirus casualties reported across the country to date.
The United States has actually tape-recorded more than 390,000 recognized infections, well over a third of those in New York state alone.
However Cuomo stated the increasing tallies of deaths, while threatening, were a “delayed indicator” of case outcomes taking place days or weeks after the onset of infections.
He pointed rather to slowing rates of coronavirus hospitalizations, intensive care admissions and ventilator intubations as preliminary indications that social distancing measures enforced last month were working to blunt the outbreak.
New Jersey Guv Phil Murphy, whose state saw coronavirus deaths jump by 232 to an overall of 1,232 in 24 hours, sounded a similar note of careful optimism, but included, “We know we’re not out of the woods yet, we’re not near to that.”
The messages from politicians in some coronavirus hot spots around the country seemed calibra