The governor said he wants to build temporary hospitals ahead of the apex of Covid-19 patients crushing the hospitals, expected to take place within three weeks
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling on President Donald Trump to approve the construction of 4,000 additional hospital beds across the city.
New York officials are also considering converting dorms and hotels into Covid-19 units and beginning to stockpile equipment, Cuomo said. “All the projections say you could have an apex needing 140,000 beds and about 40,000 ventilators," Cuomo added. "Those are numbers. Not 'I think, I feel, I believe.' ... We’re following the data and the science, and that’s what the data and the science says.”
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