As President Trump pressed his case for a reopening of the U.S. economy within a few weeks, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that being too hasty to ease the limits on travel, socializing and working together would cost lives
NEW YORK - The worst of the coronavirus outbreak will hit New York state faster and harder than previously thought, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday as the World Health Organization said the United States could emerge as the epicenter of the global pandemic.
The expected need for hospital beds in New York at the peak of the outbreak has jumped to 140,000, Cuomo said, compared with 110,000 projected recently. Only 53,000 beds are now available. “I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter,” he said, playing down the pandemic as he did in its early stages when he compared it to the seasonal flu. Trump said the restrictions could themselves lead to suicides or other fatalities but cited no evidence to support the assertion.
“We don’t think that we’re going to be in any way ready to be out of this in five or six days or so, or whenever this 15 days is up from the time that they started this imaginary clock,” he told CNN on Tuesday. A rapid reopening of the economy might backfire, with higher deaths and people remaining fearful of going out, according to investors who remain anxious about the uncertain trajectory of the coronavirus and its economic toll.
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