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One death from coronavirus every 3 minutes in New York

A particularly worrying statistic. In New York, which concentrates half of American patients, the virus kills one every three minutes.

«So, on Tuesday, a hospital is finishing up in Central Park, it’s a war-style field hospital, where there were joggers and tourists. a little further, there are queues in front of stores with rationing», explained, in duplex from New York, the journalist Agnès Vahramian.

According to the latest figures released on Wednesday April 1, Covid-19 has now killed 4,076 people in the United States.

A SAMU member on March 26, 2020 in Brussels.

In the United States, New York City, and more generally the entire state, are considered the epicenter of the epidemic. A hospital ship containing a thousand beds has been deployed in the waters of “Big Apple”, which does not prevent the specter of a shortage of artificial respirators hovering in New York health establishments.

More than 160,000 cases were identified in the United States, Tuesday, March 31, including half in New York.

While the country has not yet experienced its epidemiological peak, Donald Trump estimates that the disease will cause between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths, if the current restrictions are respected, against 1.5 to 2.2 million without any measure. A range revised upwards since Sunday, when he mentioned 100,000 to 200,000 deaths.

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