Among the most pressing needs: respirators essential to the survival of the most affected patients.
“The Chinese state will donate 1,000 respirators due to arrive at JFK airport today,” Cuomo said, especially thanking Jack Ma, founder of Chinese online retail giant Alibaba.
The state of Oregon, on the west coast, is also due to deliver 140 respirators, he added.
In addition, he said, the field hospital opened in a Manhattan conference center will ultimately be well devoted to COVID-19 patients, and will be able to accommodate 2,500. The federal state will provide its staff, he said.
Donald Trump then announced that a thousand military medics and nurses would be deployed to New York to help fight the virus, without specifying where they would be assigned. “They are going to war, they are leaving for a battle they were never really prepared for,” the president said.
Calling all caregivers
For his part, the mayor of New York Bill de Blasio called on all health professionals to mobilize.
“Doctors, nurses, breathing specialists … to all those who are not already in the battle: we need you”, launched the democratic councilor in a video posted on his Twitter account.
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