New York Hospitals To Face COVID-19 In The Winter With Spring Lessons
news-description">NEW YORK, (Xinhua) – Hospitals in New Jersey and New York are preparing for a winter bombing of COVID-19 patientsBut they say they are more prepared and more optimistic that the death rate will be lower than during the brutal spring months, the Wall Street Journal.
news-description"> New York hospitals have stockpiled personal protective equipment (PPE), secured an adequate number of respirators, and are ready to expand their bed capacity. During the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, they struggled to increase the number of beds and staff members and to find respirators, and they traveled the world to buy PPE, the report said.
COVID-19 patients
news-description"> As of Friday, there were 3,315 people hospitalized in New Jersey with COVID-19 or possible COVID-19, the state Department of Health reported. Two-thirds of beds in acute and intensive care units are occupied by COVID-19 patients and other patients, the New Jersey Hospital Association said.
news-description"> Across the river in New York, more than 4,400 people were hospitalized with COVID-19, according to information released Sunday by the governor’s office.
news-description">About 9,700 people have tested positive for the virus for an in-state positivity rate of 4.71 percent, one of the lowest in the United States.
Centro Médico Weill Cornell en Manhattan
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news-description"> State Governor Andrew Cuomo said Friday that about 60 percent of the beds in the state’s intensive care units are occupied, but mostly by patients who do not have COVID-19.
news-description"> Using a mathematical model that he helped develop, Nathaniel Hupert, co-director of the Institute for Disease and Disaster Preparedness at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, said the model does not anticipate the kind of spike seen in hospitals in the city of New York in the spring.
news-description"> New York health executives, public officials and epidemiologists have repeatedly pointed out that they do not believe that the winter months are a repeat of what was seen in the spring, as long as people stick to wearing masks and respect social distancing. and other public health recommendations.
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