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Yesterday (It's still sunday for me....I mean i'm still up, so I mean on Saturday), it was reported that 40k people were tested and 10k of them were positive for the virus in NY.

8 hours ago a new report came out saying that over 17k people have tested positive (just in NY) Another 2000 in New Jersey as well.

It's reported that 13% of the people who tested positive have required hospitalization (150 have already died within 2 days).

Here is the NY Times report (I'd post a link but you need an account...so this is the next best thing.

New York Has Roughly 5% of Coronavirus Cases Worldwide
The increase in cases stems from both the rapid growth of the outbreak and significantly increased testing in the state.

• Published March 22, 2020
• Updated March 23, 2020, 5:54 a.m. ET
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Heres what you need to know:

• New York has 16,887 confirmed cases.
• Police cases rise.
• New Jersey has nearly 2,000 confirmed cases.
• Students must move after a virus-related death.
• Its getting worse, Mayor de Blasio says.

New York has 16,887 confirmed cases.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo disclosed new statistics on Sunday that indicated that New York State now has roughly 5 percent of coronavirus cases worldwide.
The jump in the number of cases in New York stems from both the rapid growth of the outbreak and significantly increased testing in the state. Health officials emphasized that testing was revealing how quickly the coronavirus has spread.
THE LATESTNew York is now an epicenter of a global pandemic.
There were 16,887 cases of the coronavirus in the state as of Sunday night, up 4,627 since Saturday, and at least 150 deaths, according to the latest figures from the city and state. As of Sunday morning, about 13 percent of people in New York State who tested positive for the virus had been hospitalized, Mr. Cuomo said.

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This is Not Life as Usual: Cuomo Calls on New Yorkers to Abide Isolation
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York said on Sunday that cases of the coronavirus in the state had reached 15,168, and called on New Yorkers to stop ignoring social distancing.
I dont know what theyre not understanding. This is not life as usual. None of this is life as usual. And this kind of density, we talk about social distancing I was in these parks, you would not you would not know that anything was going on. This is just a mistake. Its a mistake. Its insensitive, its arrogant, its self-destructive, its disrespectful to other people. And it has to stop. And it has to stop now. Total number of cases 15,000; total number of new cases: 4,800 new cases. This is not a short term situation. This is not a long weekend. This is not a week. The timeline, nobody can tell you. It depends on how we handle it. But 40 percent, up to 80 percent, of the population will wind up getting this. What were working very hard to do is to keep the rate of increase of the spread of the disease to a level that we can manage it in our hospital system. We have 53,000 hospital beds available. Right now, the curve suggests we could need 110,000 hospital beds and that is an obvious problem.
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This is Not Life as Usual: Cuomo Calls on New Yorkers to Abide Isolation
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York said on Sunday that cases of the coronavirus in the state had reached 15,168, and called on New Yorkers to stop ignoring social distancing.Credit
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The New York Times
He said that 18- to 49-year-olds make up more than half of all cases in the state. Nearly 11,000 cases were in New York City, the city said Sunday night.

• Mr. Cuomo also indicated that he would give New York City 24 hours to come up with a plan to reduce density in public spaces like parks, which he would need to approve.
• I dont know what Im saying that people dont get, Mr. Cuomo said, calling some New Yorkers behavior insensitive and arrogant. He suggested that city officials could close some streets to traffic to give residents more outdoor space.
• The governor wants state hospitals to double their capacity. He said the Federal Emergency Management Agency would build four hospitals with 1,000 total beds at the sprawling Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Midtown Manhattan. (President Trump confirmed this in a later news conference and said the federal government would also be sending medical supplies to New York.)
• Mr. Cuomo echoed a call from Mayor Bill de Blasio for the federal government to require the private sector to produce medical equipment. If I had the power, I would do it in New York, he said.
• Mr. Cuomo reiterated his support for continued testing for the virus. Were still trying to stop the apex, he said. Im not willing to give up the testing. He also urged the federal government to move quickly to test people for antibodies indicating that they have recovered from the virus, in part to help combat health care worker shortages.
• New York has secured from the federal government trial drugs that it will begin testing on Tuesday, Mr. Cuomo said. They include hydroxychloroquine, Zithromax and chloroquine.
• The president is optimistic about these drugs, Mr. Cuomo said. Ive spoken with a number of health officials, and there is a good basis to believe that they could work.
• All elective, noncritical surgeries are canceled as of Wednesday to increase hospital bed capacity in the state by 25 to 30 percent, Mr. Cuomo said.
• Earlier on Sunday, City Councilman Mark Levine, the chairman of the Councils health committee, said on Twitter that he thought testing was causing more harm because, in part, because it requires staffing and supplies that could otherwise be used while treating seriously ill patients.

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