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NY Deaths To Rise As Patients Spend Longer On Ventilators: Cuomo
"This is the bad news," Cuomo said of the increasing numbers. "That's the worst news you can get."

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"This is the bad news," Cuomo said of the increasing numbers. "That's the worst news you can get."

In New York, roughly 67,000 hospitality workers lost their jobs and 80,000 people filed for unemployment, data show.
"We need a mandated lockdown," Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said Wednesday. "And we needed it yesterday."
"We’re the lifeblood of the New York economy," Pat Foye said. "The state can’t recover without a strong public transportation system.”
"I have no doubt that the virus was here much earlier than we even know," said Cuomo.
"Because of the rate of the number of cases," said Dr. Deborah L. Birx, "you may have been exposed before you left New York."
Legal Aid filed its second lawsuit Tuesday to release New Yorkers vulnerable to COVID-19 from city jails.
New York City needs 15,000 ventilators to meet the demand of a COVID-19 outbreak expected to peak in two weeks, officials have said.
New York will need up to 140,000 hospital beds to fight an influx of cases that could hit in two to three weeks, Cuomo said.
The city is being attacked five times faster than the nation's average, an expert said.
The 400 ventilators will meet about 3 percent of the city's estimated need.
The New York City actors teamed up for a PSA warning New Yorkers to obey Gov. Cuomo's stay-at-home order, which began Sunday night.
Hospital construction at the Hell's Kitchen convention center will begin this week as novel coronavirus case numbers in New York City soar.
Gov. Cuomo is exploring an economic exit strategy that involves sending lower-risk and immune New Yorkers back into the workforce first.
There were a total of 12,305 new novel coronavirus cases in New York City reported Monday morning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.
Social distancing presents an opportunity and challenge to city parents experiencing "two worlds colliding in our space and in our face."
NYPD officers will soon be tasked with enforcing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's stay-at-home order issued Friday.
As of 10 a.m., 5,151 New York City dwellers had tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Mayor's office.
"POTUS told Schumer he would,” Sen. Schumer's spokesperson said. “And then POTUS yelled to someone in his office to do it now.”
Gov. Cuomo didn't say shelter in place but ordered New Yorkers to pause. "We're all in various levels of quarantine."