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Medical workers wait for patients at a special coronavirus intake area at Maimonides Medical Center in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn which has seen an upsurge of coronavirus patients on April 2, 2020 in New York City (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
New York races to add hospital beds as mayor urges all to wear masks outside
By Jennifer Peltz
With some 1,000 new hospitalizations every day and equipment and medical staff in short supply, officials say pandemic’s peak could still be weeks away
Medical workers wait for patients at a special coronavirus intake area at Maimonides Medical Center in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn which has seen an upsurge of coronavirus patients on April 2, 2020 in New York City (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
April 3, 2020, 8:10 am
New York races to add hospital beds as mayor urges all to wear masks outside
With some 1,000 new hospitalizations every day and equipment and medical staff in short supply, officials say pandemic’s peak could still be weeks away
By Jennifer Peltz
Cruise ships are docked at PortMiami on March 31, 2020, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
April 1, 2020, 9:05 pm
New York deaths double in 3 days to 1,900, with worse to come
Americans brace for what Trump warns could be ‘one of the roughest two or three weeks we’ve ever had in our country’
By Michael R. Sisak, Angela Charlton and Mark Sherman
CNN news anchor Chris Cuomo at the WarnerMedia Upfront in New York, May 15, 2019. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
March 31, 2020, 9:19 pm
NY governor’s brother, a CNN reporter, tests positive for coronavirus
Chris Cuomo vows to continue doing his show from the basement of his home, earns scolding from his brother for having their 88-year-old mother over two weeks ago
By David Bauder
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to the media and tours a newly opened drive through testing center for the coronavirus on March 13, 2020, in New Rochelle, New York. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
March 31, 2020, 3:08 am
Attorney sues Cuomo over NY ban on large gatherings, says it hurts Jewish faith
Lee Nigen also protests limits on travel as violating his right to meet with clients, friends and family; lawyer is attacked by commentators on social media
By JTA
The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort passes lower Manhattan on its way to docking in New York, Monday, March 30, 2020. The ship has 1,000 beds and 12 operating rooms that could be up and running within 24 hours of its arrival on Monday morning (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
March 31, 2020, 1:25 am
NY governor begs for help amid ‘staggering’ death toll at outbreak’s epicenter
‘Please come help us in New York now,’ Andrew Cuomo pleads, as day’s 250 more victims bring number of dead to over 1,200
By Jocelyn Noveck, Larry Neumeister and MARINA VILLENEUVE
Josef Neumann, 72, who was seriously injured during a December 29, 2019, machete assault in Monsey, New York, and died three months later (courtesy)
March 31, 2020, 1:02 am
Cuomo renames hate crime legislation to honor Monsey stabbing victim
Day after victim succumbs to wounds, NY governor says proposed legislation will be called the Josef Neumann Hate Crimes Domestic Terrorism Act
By Marcy Oster
Media members wearing protective masks film outside the Young Israel of New Rochelle synagogue on March 10, 2020, in Westchester County, New York. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)
March 31, 2020, 12:44 am
Man at center of New Rochelle coronavirus outbreak released from hospital
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says ‘patient zero’ is now home, asks people not to gather in groups for Passover; Lawrence Garbuz, 50, had been on a ventilator and in an induced coma
By Marcy Oster
The USNS Comfort medical ship moves up the Hudson River as it arrives in New York on March 30, 2020. (Angela Weiss / AFP)
March 30, 2020, 11:38 pm
Hospital ship arrives in New York as virus death toll rises above 1,200
Cuomo laments ‘staggering’ number of deaths; refrigerated trucks reportedly being prepared to work as mobile morgues, as officials warn health system could collapse
By Agencies
US President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus as he walks to Marine One to depart the White House, March 28, 2020, in Washington (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
March 28, 2020, 8:42 pm
Trump says he’s mulling quarantine on New York, New Jersey, parts of Connecticut
New York governor Andrew Cuomo says he doesn’t see how a lockdown of specific states could be legally enforceable: ‘I don’t even know what that means’
By Agencies
Workers wearing personal protective equipment at a mass manufacturing operation to supply New York City with gear for the coronavirus at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York, March 27, 2020, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. (AP/John Minchillo)
March 28, 2020, 5:31 am
New York plans more hospitals as virus death toll surges
State records 519 fatalities as governor announces 4 temporary medical centers throughout New York City; outbreak in area expected to peak in 3 weeks
By AFP
Yellow cabs line an empty 42nd St. waiting for fares outside Grand Central Terminal, in New York, March 25, 2020. (Mary Altaffer/AP)
March 26, 2020, 8:15 am
US Senate unanimously passes colossal $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package
Unparalleled economic rescue bill approved despite misgivings on both sides about whether it goes too far or not far enough
By Andrew Taylor
Medical Examiner personnel and construction workers are seen at the site of a makeshift morgue being built in New York, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
March 26, 2020, 5:58 am
New York struggles with coronavirus as US deaths top 1,000
City public health officials hunt down beds and medical equipment and put out a call for more doctors and nurses for fear the number of sick will explode in a matter of weeks
By Jennifer Peltz and Colleen Long
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to the media at the Javits Convention Center which is being turned into a hospital to help fight coronavirus cases, on March 24, 2020 in New York City. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images/AFP)
March 25, 2020, 10:35 pm
NY governor sounds alarm over ‘astronomical’ coronavirus numbers
Andrew Cuomo says virus could peak in populous state in as few as 2 weeks, with some 40,000 people needing intensive care
By AFP
A cyclist rides his bicycle down the middle of a main road in downtown New York, March 22, 2020. (Wong Maye-E/AP)
March 23, 2020, 12:32 am
New York quiets as it becomes next coronavirus hot spot
As most New Yorkers barred from congregating in groups or going to work, officials warn of a critical shortage of medical supplies
By Jim Mustian and Jeffrey Collins
Hospital personnel assist people at a coronavirus screening tent outside the Brooklyn Hospital Center, March 19, 2020, in New York. (Mark Lennihan/AP)
March 22, 2020, 9:03 pm
New York to run out of ventilators in days, mayor says
Bill de Blasio says people to die unnecessarily, due to a ‘widespread shortage’ of basic supplies needed to keep hospitals running
By AFP
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