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Cuomo: One Week Left In New York States Ventilator Supply

Coronavirus continues to spread as numbers keep rising in New York State.  Every single county has at least one case.  There are more than 92 thousand known cases in New York State with the death toll now topping 23-hundred as of Thursday.   

The latest set of models show coronavirus cases peaking in 7 to 30 days. Governor Cuomo explains why it’s such a wide range.

“It depends on how that model rates how effective social distancing is”

Cuomo says crews are starting to turn the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal into a field hospital to create hundreds of more beds and relief is on the way for worn out nurses and doctors.

“God Bless America. 21-thousand people have volunteered from out of state.”

But there’s under a week left of ventilators in the state’s supply stock so hospitals are practicing splitting a ventilator with two patients

“It’s not easy. It’s not ideal but it’s better than nothing.”

 

Alexandra Hill began her work with WBGO in June of 2012 in the news department. A graduate of the Rutgers Newark journalism program, Alexandra was also a student of WBGO News Director Doug Doyle. Alexandra has since become the lead general assignment reporter, afternoon news anchor, and producer of the award winning live call in show Newark Today. Since working for WBGO Alexandra has covered politics in and around Newark including the 2014 mayoral campaign of Mayor Ras Baraka as well as the senate campaigns of former Newark Mayor and now U.S. Senator Cory Booker in both 2013 and 2014. Alexandra also covers a host of human-interest stories, and has been recognized by the New York Association Of Black Journalists for her piece entitled Sheltering Newark’s Homeless.