Here is all the latest news from all corners regarding the pandemic, the news is rapidly moving

UPDATE 4/3

NYC MAYOR “WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!”* Mayor Bill de Blasio warned the city would face a massive surge in cases next week with as many as 5,000 or more people in New York City who need to be in ICUs. De Blasio says he asked the White House/Pentagon 10 days ago for reinforcements, including 1,000 nurses, 150 doctors and 300 respiratory therapists, but has not received a firm answer.

“We are running out of time, I think we have literally days to create something that has never existed before, for a crisis this country has never seen before,” he said during an interview on Friday morning. “If that is not done in the coming days, you’re going to see people die who did not need to die, not just in New York, but in many parts of this country.”

*NY COVID-19 UPDATE:* New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said there are now 102,863 coronavirus cases in the state. More than 14,000 patients are currently hospitalized. So far, 2,935 people have died in the state — that’s up from 2,373, Cuomo said. “Highest single increase in the number of deaths since we started,” Cuomo said.

Cuomo press conference yesterday afternoon 

• New York has confirmed 92,381 cases of coronavirus, governor Andrew Cuomo said at his daily briefing. The state has also seen 2,373 deaths linked to the virus, up from 1,941 yesterday. New York accounts for nearly half of the coronavirus deaths from the entire country.
• The number of people discharged from the hospital is “way up,” marking some rare good news since cases started to surge. But Cuomo warned the state still needs more hospital beds to prepare for the peak of the crisis. The governor said he was more concerned about ensuring the state has enough medical professionals and equipment to deal with the peak of the crisis. “Beds we can find,” Cuomo said. “The harder component is the staff and the supplies.”
•  The state would start conducting nightly hospital-by-hospital surveys to assess what medical equipment they need.
• Cuomo added that it was the “cruelest irony” the country is now dependent on China for the production of crucial medical equipment.
• The state only has enough ventilators in its stockpile for six days. Cuomo said data indicates about 350 people come in to hospitals every night needing a ventilator, meaning the state is expected to run out in about six days
• Cuomo noted the state released 400 ventilators to New York City last night and would distribute ventilators based on need in the weeks to come. The state is exploring ways to expand its ventilator capacity, including splitting ventilator tubes and converting BIPAP machines. The state has 2,200 ventilators in its stockpile.
• Cuomo said data indicates about 350 people come in to hospitals every night needing a ventilator, meaning the state is expected to run out in about six days.

NEW YORK NOTES

• The cavalry keeps coming”, says New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as 250 ambulances and 500 EMTs and paramedics arrived from around the country thanks to reinforcements from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema). In a video Thursday morning, de Blasio told the story of two men from Kalamazoo, Michigan, who drove their ambulance all the way to New York City to be of service.
• As NYC  become the center of the coronavirus crisis in the United States many citizens, especially wealthier ones, have fled the city to second homes or rentals – but they have been met with hostility, fear and blame for potentially spreading the illness, The Guardian reported.
• Nurses and doctors at Montefiore medical center in the Bronx protested over the lack of personal protective equipment on Thursday. ‘Every day when I go to work, I feel like a sheep going to slaughter,’ said Dr Laura Ucik, a third-year resident at the center
• Veterinary surgeries have been donating ventilators usually used on animals to the “war effort” against coronavirus in New York City, highlighting the city’s severe shortage of the machines.
• As New York scrambles to get thousands of ventilators, Mayor de Blasio this week urged anybody in the city with a ventilator – including oral surgeons, plastic surgeons and vets – to come forward, saying “we could use every single one of them”
•  Gov. Phil Murphy has given New Jersey State Police orders to take N95 masks, ventilators and other personal protective equipment that health care facilities need in their race to slow the spread of coronavirus.

NATIONAL 

• About two-thirds of U.S. likely voters want their state’s border closed and fines imposed for violating their community’s social distancing guidelines during the coronavirus threat, a new Rasmussen Reports survey finds.
• The Democratic National Committee has confirmed the party’s nominating convention will be postponed until mid-August “Ultimately, the health and safety of our convention attendees and the people of Milwaukee is our top priority. And we will continue to be in contact with local, state, and federal health officials as we monitor this fluid situation.”
• House speaker Nancy Pelosi said she spoke to treasury secretary Steven Mnuchinlast night about a potential phase four coronavirus bill. Pelosi has said she wants to pass another bill in response to the pandemic, which would focus on clean water, rural broadband and infrustructure, among other things.
• About two-thirds of U.S. likely voters want their state’s border closed and fines imposed for violating their community’s social distancing guidelines during the coronavirus threat, a new Rasmussen Reports survey finds.
• 1 in 1,000: Even with a lack of available testing and delays in getting test results back, about 1 in every 1,500 people in the U.S. have a confirmed case of coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. Census Bureau. The daily case count has been rising, but even if it levels off, the U.S. may still get to a point where 1 in 1,000 nationally have it in the next week or so.
• The coronavirus has been a far deadlier threat in New Orleans than the rest of the United States, with a per-capita death rate much higher than in New York City, Reuters reported
• An unprecedented number of Americans have resorted to food banks for emergency supplies since the coronavirus pandemic triggered widespread layoffs. The demand for food aid has increased as much as eightfold in some areas, according to an investigation by the Guardian, which gives a nationwide snapshot of the hunger crisis facing the US as millions become unemployed. The national guard has been deployed to help food banks cope with rising demand in cities including Cleveland, Phoenix and St Louis amid growing concerns that supplies may run low as the crisis evolves  (Editor recommends this shocking article)
• More than 6.65 million people have filed for unemployment benefits in the US last week, according to the latest official figures, highlighting the devastating economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the American economy.

GLOBAL NOTES 

• Global cases of the virus have passed one million, according to figures collected by researchers from Johns Hopkins University. Deaths worldwide have passed 50,000.The global fatality rate has now risen above 5% of all reported cases, with the UK, the US and Spain among countries reporting a spike in fatalities in recent days.
• The infection rate in Italy, which on Thursday reported 760 new deaths, bringing its total to 13,915, and a total of 115,242 cases including deaths, recovered and current cases, has also slowed. The number of new daily cases is now rising by about 3% compared with highs of 15% during the early phase of the emergency.
• Governments in the Middle East need to act fast to limit the spread of the coronavirus after cases rose to nearly 60,000, almost double their level a week earlier, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
• France reported 471 hospital deaths in past 24 hours, a slight fall on previous days, but announced that 884 people had died in old people’s homes since the crisis began, bringing its total tally to 5,307.
• Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, told security forces they should shoot dead anyone causing “trouble” in locked-down areas.
•  Spain  posted another record single-day death toll of 950, and a total of 110,238 cases. It said, however, that the rates of new infections and deaths continued a downward trend.