More than 20,000 people have died from the
coronavirus in the United States, which now has more reported
deaths than any country in the world, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins
University.
The
US death toll on Saturday climbed to 20,389, surpassing that
of Italy, which is reporting 19,468 deaths, per Johns Hopkins.
"You
can see that the number is somewhat stabilizing, but it is stabilizing at a
horrific rate," Cuomo said. "These are just incredible numbers
depicting incredible loss and pain."
But
Cuomo also shared what he called good news, saying the state's curve "is
continuing to flatten."
"The
number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex, and the apex appears to
be a plateau," the governor said, where numbers will level out for a
period before dropping.
The
hospitalization rate is also down, Cuomo said, as are the number of
intensive-care admissions.
"Still
people getting infected," he said, "still people going into the
hospital, but again, a lower rate of increase."
"We
re-run the model, basically, almost every night -- and the new returns from
different states are suggesting different peaks in different states, but at the
national level we seem to be pretty much close to the peak," he said
Friday.
That
model projects about 61,500 Americans will lose their lives to the virus by
August -- if the country keeps social distance measures in place until the end
of May. If they factor in states that may lift these rules by May 1, the
numbers "don't look good," Murray said.
"So
every day we need to continue to do what we did yesterday, and the week before,
and the week before that, because that's what in the end is going to take us up
across the peak and down the other side," she said.
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