'Heartbreaking, intense, unprecedented': Suffolk County battling a medical 'war zone' as COVID cases continue to rise

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'Heartbreaking, intense, unprecedented': Suffolk County battling a medical 'war zone' as COVID cases continue to rise
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“You talk about flattening in other places but that’s not happening here,' Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone tells ABC News. 'We are in the thick of this right now.”

cases in the state, a leader in Suffolk County says there's no such hope there right now.

The Long Island county had at least 17,008 confirmed COVID-19 cases and at least 323 related deaths as of Thursday, according to the New York stateIn the last 72 hours, among the fatalities were two nurses who tested positive for coronavirus. They died in different Suffolk County hospitals. One was a 63-year-old at Huntington Hospital and the other was an ICU nurse in Brookhaven.

He estimates the county is a week or two behind New York City, where the hospital system was hammered but has since seemingly stabilized. New York has the most reported cases of any state in the U.S.

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