More than 1,000 people have died of coronavirus in New York, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, as of Monday morning, a state official says.
The 68-bed field hospital in the park's East Meadow along the Upper East Side is designed as a respiratory care unit. Samaritan's Purse, a Christian humanitarian aid organization, set up the tents in cooperation with FEMA, state officials and local hospital authorities, the organization said. Mayor Bill de Blasio said the tent hospital is expected to be operational by Tuesday.
Inside a NYC hospital on the front lines of outbreak 05:42 Cuomo has emphasized a two-pronged solution to the coronavirus outbreak: increase the ability to care for those who get sick and cut down on the spread of new cases.NYC's Emergency Rooms are serving twice as many patients as usual and their ICUs are three times as large as usual, Dr. Mitchell Katz, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals said Sunday.
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