New York City Health + Hospitals estimates that there has been 3,778 probable Covid-19 deaths since March 11.
Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks as the Navy Hospital Ship USNS Comfort arrives in Manhattan's Pier 90 to help relieve the strain on local hospitals with its 1,000 beds and 1,200 personnel during the Coronavirus pandemic in New York City.New York City is struggling to get an accurate count of the number of Covid-19 fatalities as more people die at home and some likely coronavirus deaths are attributed to heart attacks and other causes, Mayor Bill de Blasio acknowledged Wednesday.
On Tuesday, New York City officials said they would begin counting "probable" Covid-19 deaths, which are people "who had no known positive laboratory test," but are believed to have died due to Covid-19. The city's public hospital system, New York City Health + Hospitals, estimates that there have been 3,778 probable Covid-19 deaths since March 11 that weren't previously counted in the city's official tally.
"I want the whole truth out. Wherever the facts take us, I want the whole truth out," de Blasio said Wednesday at a news briefing. "Absolutely, I believe there are more people who died because of Covid-19, in one way or another, because of something that happened to them related to Covid-19." NYC Health Department Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot said most people who have died from Covid-19 were diagnosed in hospitals. However, the city has seen more deaths at home than would normally been expected, Barbot said.
Barbot said the city has compared "the number of deaths during that same time period in the previous year and what we find is that there are roughly 3,000 deaths above what would have been anticipated."
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