Note that Hahnemann Hospital has been completed stripped of any kind of medical equipment or facilities. In some areas of the hospital, there are not even light fixtures left.
Hahnemann is owned by Joel Freedman, an investment banker from CA. Hahnemann Hospital’s owner is a known “bad faith player” in the healthcare industry.
Singer-songwriter John Prine hospitalized with coronavirus symptoms, family says
From CNN’s Hollie Silverman
Musician John Prine was hospitalized Thursday after a “sudden onset” of coronavirus symptoms, according to a statement posted by his family on his verified Twitter account.
Prine was intubated Saturday night and continues to receive care but “his situation is critical,” the statement said.
More clinicians and ventilators have been sent to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens
From CNN’s Laura Ly
New York Mayor de Blasio said Sunday that 169 clinicians – physicians, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants – have been sent recently to Elmhurst Hospital to assist in treating coronavirus patients.
De Blasio said 55 ventilators have been sent to Elmhurst over the past two weeks.
The Queens hospital has been among the hardest hit in New York City, although the number of cases in other NYC hospitals is expected to follow Elmhurst’s lead, de Blasio said.
Within Elmhurst Hospital, staffers have been moved from outpatient areas to assist in the ICU. Staff from central office are moving in and taking on roles in the ICU and in the emergency department, de Blasio said, adding that the city will keep moving personnel to help Elmhurst and every other hospital that needs it.
NYC Health ER’s are serving twice as many patients and ICUs are three times as filled, NYC Health CEO says
From CNN’s Laura Ly
New York City’s emergency rooms are serving twice as many patients as usual and their intensive care units are three times more filled than usual, said Dr. Mitchell Katz, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, on Sunday.
NYC’s health care providers are serving under very difficult conditions, but so far, everyone who has needed a ventilator has gotten one and that everyone needing PPE has gotten it, Katz said. NYC Health + Hospitals operates the public hospitals and clinics in New York City.
“I want to be clear that everyone who has needed a ventilator has gotten a ventilator. That people who need the protective equipment have gotten the protective equipment. But there is tremendous anxiety about the coming weeks,” Katz said.
About 500 contract nurses were added to the NYC Health + Hospitals system this week and another 500 are expected next week, NYC Mayor de Blasio said Sunday.
The city sent 1,400 ventilators to hospitals throughout the city, but the overall number needed is 15,000, de Blasio said.
Here’s the context, and it’s simple: More and more people are dying from covid-19. If we’re very very lucky, 100,000 Americans will die of covid-19. I think that’s a ridiculously low estimate. I think it’ll be well over half a million.
It is a virtual certainty that more people will die this year in the US of Covid-19 than flu. If we don’t do anything, several million will die.
If covid-19 were expected to kill only 60,000 people this year, then we wouldn’t be so worried. But it’s not. It’s going to kill a lot more.
Moreover, the worst-hit survivors, the ones who were put in ventilators and survived, are going to need months of therapy. Some will never make a full recovery.
Thank you @dragonmom, and all others who have expressed your kind words and thoughts.
Governor Cuomo’s daily update.
Here’s what else you need to know tonight:
Tonight’s “Deep Breath Moment”: Self-isolation is hard, but the companionship of pets makes it easier. According to reports, animal shelters across the United States are receiving a surge of applications to foster or adopt pets due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ever Upward,
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
It’s why I wish more people would get the flu shot and why I get irked by those who think you can get the actual flu from the injection (which is not possible).
‘Entirely conceivable’ that more than 1 million people in the US could contract coronavirus, Fauci says
From CNN’s Allie Malloy
Dr. Anthony Fauci told reporters in the Rose Garden Sunday that it’s “entirely conceivable” that more than 1 million people in the US could contract coronavirus but added that mitigation and extending guidelines through April will hopefully curb those numbers.
“The number I gave out is, you know, based on modeling,” Fauci said, explaining the models he discussed on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning.
Fauci said it was possible up to 100,000 could die from the virus.
“What we’re trying to do is not to let that happen,” he said.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, called the decision to extend the mitigation process until the end of April a “wise and prudent decision.”
He added that he and Dr. Deborah Birx, response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, discussed the plans and that the President accepted their recommendation.
Whoa, a little stereotyping here! Much of Eastern Europe is in the EU and has a modern medical system that’s more accessible to the average person than in the US.
And when it comes to COVID-19 much of Eastern Europe is far more organized than the US at this point. They imposed quarantine measures sooner than we did, they closed their borders sooner than the US and they screen (temp checks/tests) everyone going into the country. At airports in the US, we don’t even ask Americans returning from overseas where they’ve been been.
One thing I love about Cuomo’s missives is his expressing our collective grief about the deaths and our gratitude to the first responders. Leaders should do this.
I disagree. It wasn’t too long ago people started to stay home. It takes about a month for people to die from the virus. Death at the moment is still from the time when we were roaming freely.
No, not full compliance but people have been good at staying home, studies show. Leaving it to people seems to work at the moment instead of being so inflexible. Whatever short come we may have, Americans are more civic minded. Let’s not talk ourselves down.
I also like how he always shares some positivity or kind gestures at the end as well, the “Deep Breath Moment”. I don’t live in NY but reading his messages, shared by @mathKids (thank you!), gives me comfort from a distance and I see real leadership there. 
It actually is possible if the person who does the injection messes up and stabs you with the needle in the wrong way. (Personal experience). I got the flu, but the fever, chills, body aches only lasted for 24 hours, so much shorter than a regular flu. I concede something like that is very rare, though. And all my family members get our flu shots every year.
This isn’t the same as the common seasonal flu. The president said today that millions would have died in the U.S had we not done social distancing and closed our borders to China, Europe etc.
This is NOT the same as the common seasonal flu. Period.
No it’s not. The flu vaccine is a dead virus. No matter how they give it to you it is impossible to get the flu from it.
Those are very typical reaction symptoms to the shot.
@jym626 . Sorry for your families loss.
“Whoa, a little stereotyping here! Much of Eastern Europe is in the EU and has a modern medical system that’s more accessible to the average person than in the US.”
He, he, that’s where I am from and that is where I trained initially, that is where my parents get treated because they still live there. I visit a few times a year, and my class mates work in the hospitals there so I know exactly what I am talking about. Unless you have money and connections, you are in trouble.
Apologies if this has been shared already…a friend just sent it to me and I found the drop-down menu to access projections by state helpful.
@jym626 - I just saw your post. I am so sorry. Hugs to your family.
Thank you, @knowsstuff and @bunsen03 . He was in Chicago, @Knowsstuff . Please be safe.
I can no longer watch the news briefs (which are anything but brief). I am past the “yelling and cursing at the screen” stage and in the “I absolutely cannot listens to the lies, insults and self aggrandizement” stage.