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iMo:
https://suffolktimes.timesreview.com/2020/03/gov-cuomo-feds-need-to-consider-rolling-deployment-focused-on-ny-first/


--- Quote ---New York State has now surpassed more than 30,800 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus, with 2,260 in Suffolk County. About 3,800 people are being treated for the virus in New York hospitals with 888 in intensive care units.

The governor also repeated his estimate that New York will hit its “apex of need” — the peak number of patients being treated in hospitals — within 21 days. To meet the anticipated demand, the state still needs to find a way to acquire 15,000 ventilators and about 20,000 additional hospital beds beyond the current plan.

Mr. Cuomo said the state had 4,000 ventilators before the pandemic reached its borders and has since acquired 7,000 through purchase and 4,000 more through the federal government. Its projected need is about 30,000 ventilators and the governor said the state is exploring ways to treat two patients with one ventilator to help bridge the gap.

In order to meet the demand for hospital beds, the state has directed all hospitals to expand by 50% – with some doubling in size — the federal government is building auxiliary hospital space and supplying a Navy medical ship, and the state will use downstate college dormitories. The governor said using space in hotels and nursing homes could be a next step as the state looks to grow the number of beds to 140,000.
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SiliconWizard:
Looks pretty bad :( (for approx 20M people...)
In comparison, in France we have currently a total ~22300 confirmed cases (for a total population of ~67M...)
drussell:
The problem with the idea of moving ventilators from one outbreak to another is that it is unlikely that the surge will be over in a place like New York before they are already needed elsewhere.  You're still going to need a huge peak number and they aren't going to be able to be moved on to another hot-spot for quite some time.

Remember, that of China's 81000+ cases, almost 4500 cases are still unresolved, with about a third of those being in serious or critical condition, many of whom are probably still requiring the use of a ventilator, and they managed to curtail the major spread almost 2 months ago.

New York will likely need their 30000+ ventilators for many months.
SiliconWizard:
Yeah...

This has probably been posted several times already, but just in case: https://virusncov.com/
JPortici:
Officially getting my hopes up

However i'm not really being sold on the data from other countries (huge slow down in US,UK,Germany and france all at once  :-// )
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