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UPDATE: Cuomo said the Javits Center on the west side of Manhattan is one of four venues under consideration as a potential site for an emergency “field hospital” as the state frantically attempts to boost its hospital capacity from around 50,000 beds to 75,000.

Cuomo said the state has already hospitalized 1,600 people and the massive 1.8m sq ft of convention space along the Hudson River could house 1,000 more beds. Other proposed sites include the State University of New York campuses at Stony Brook and Westbury on Long Island and the Westchester Convention Center.

• New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Saturday morning that the number of coronavirus cases in the state has increased by more than 3,000 and now tops 10,000.
• The state’s rate of hospitalization is now 15 percent of coronavirus cases, the governor said.
• Cuomo said the state anticipates that between 40 and 80 percent of New Yorkers will be infected with coronavirus, however, authorities hope to spread out the rate of infection in order to not overwhelm the state’s health system.
• The state has conducted 45,437 tests, he said, and now has a total of 10,356 coronavirus cases.
• “The more tests you take, the more positives you find,” he said, adding that New York is now conducting more tests per capita than China or South Korea.

Highlight Quote:

“My last point is practice humanity. We don’t talk about practicing humanity, but now if ever there is a time to practice humanity the time is now. The time is now to show some kindness, to show some compassion to people, show some gentility – even as a New Yorker.

Yes, we can be tough. Yes, this is a dense environment. It can be a difficult environment. It can also be the most supportive, courageous community that you have ever seen.

And this is a time for a little gentility. It is a time for a smile when you are walking past someone. It is a time for a nod. It is a time to say hello. It is a time for patience and don’t let the little things get you annoyed. That’s New York at its best. That was New York after 9/11.

Yes, we have a problem. Yes, we will deal with it. Yes, we will overcome it. But let’s find our better selves in doing it, and let New York lead the way in finding their better selves and demonstrating their better selves. That is the New York destiny and that is the New York legacy. And that is why I am proud to be a New Yorker and to be Governor of this great state”