[NEW YORK] Two of the main US coronavirus hot spots on Friday reported their biggest jumps yet in Covid-19 deaths, with the number of fatalities so far in New York state alone comparable to the loss of life in the United States in the Sept 11, 2001 attacks. Read more at The Business Times.
Another hot spot, Louisiana, reported that the number of its deaths from Covid-19, the highly contagious respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus, rose from 310 at noon on Thursday to 370 at noon on Friday. That marked the biggest 24-hour increase in fatal cases yet in the Gulf Coast state.
"Personally, it's hard to go through this all day, and then it's hard to stay up all night watching those numbers come in ... and know that you're in charge of the ship at this time," Mr Cuomo said.Along with New York and Seattle in Washington state, Louisiana's largest city, New Orleans, has emerged as one of the US focal points of a health crisis that has forced much of the country's workforce to stay at home to avoid spreading infection.
"You are really helping, but for those of you who are not taking the crisis seriously, I am asking you to do a better job," he told a news conference. Many of the terminal patients were dying alone as medical staff forbade relatives to be with them in their final hours for fear of a further spread of infection.One doctor at a New York City hospital recounted arriving at work on Friday to learn that three of his Covid-19 patients had died that morning. A few hours later, he had intubated two others.
"In those same tents, I saw too much pain, loneliness, and death. People dying alone," he wrote on Twitter on Thursday night.
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