New York struggles badly to cope with Coronavirus Pandemic overtakes Wuhan

[Asian.Century]

USA State New York is struggling to cope with the increasing coronavirus pandemic

New York State has surpassed Wuhan China, in sheer number of cornavirus patients, with more than 4500+ deaths, and 125000 cases. The scale is huge.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1247535907277647875

New York is having a hard time coping with coronavirus the hardest hit state of USA with really bad times coming ahead. So many dead people and lungs devastated patients for the rest of their lives.
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1247535907277647875

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

USA State New York is struggling to cope with the increasing coronavirus pandemic

New York State has surpassed Wuhan China, in sheer number of cornavirus patients, with more than 4500+ deaths, and 125000 cases. The scale is huge.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1247535907277647875

New York is having a hard time coping with coronavirus the hardest hit state of USA with really bad times coming ahead. So many dead people and lungs devastated patients for the rest of their lives.

@F-22Raptor isn't situation getting in control according to you?

 

[Asian.Century]

New York's coronavirus outbreak originated mainly in travelers from Europe, new studies show

13 hours ago

Doctors testing hospital workers for the coronavirus at St. Barnabas hospital in the Bronx borough of New York City on March 24. Misha Friedman/Getty Images

• The coronavirus outbreak in New York originated mainly in travelers from Europe, not Asia, according to new studies cited by The New York Times on Wednesday.
• Researchers also found the novel coronavirus was circulating in New York City as early as mid-February, The Times said, weeks before a European travel ban was imposed by President Donald Trump on March 11.
• "People were just oblivious," Adriana Heguy, a member of a research team from New York University, told The Times.
• Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

New research suggests the coronavirus outbreak in New York originated mainly in travelers from Europe, not Asia, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Studies also found the coronavirus was circulating in the New York area as early as mid-February, The Times said, indicating the virus has been spreading long before more aggressive testing measures were put into place.

Two separate research teams studying the genomes of infected patients in New York came to the same conclusion despite having looked at two different case groups, The Times reported.

"People were just oblivious," Adriana Heguy, a member of the research team from New York University, told The Times.

The country's first confirmed coronavirus case was detected in Washington state on January 19. A little under two weeks later, on January 31, President Donald Trump implemented a ban on foreign nationals entering the country if they had been to China in the past 14 days.

On March 11, Trump also imposed a ban on foreign travel into the US from most of Europe, following an unprecedented nationwide lockdown in Italy, which has the highest coronavirus death toll globally.

Nonetheless, the new studies indicate travelers from Europe carrying the virus were already entering the country via New York weeks before the ban.

"The majority is clearly European," Harm van Bakel, a geneticist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, told The Times.

As of Wednesday, the coronavirus had infected more than 435,000 people in the US, with nearly 15,000 deaths. In New York state alone, there are at least 151,069 cases and 6,268 deaths.

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NYC reports 824 new coronavirus deaths in a day as confirmed cases grow over 85,000

A group of adjoining neighborhoods in Queens has emerged as the epicenter of New York’s raging outbreak.

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The number of virus patients hospitalized in New York grew by its smallest number in weeks, but deaths reached another all-time high.

New York City reported 824 new deaths from coronavirus in about a day as the number of confirmed cases grew to more than 84,000 on Thursday morning, health data shows.

There were 84,373 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of 9:30 a.m. Thursday, up by 6,406 since 9:15 Wednesday morning, according to the city Health Department.

The city reported 4,426 people died of coronavirus by Thursday morning, an increase of nearly 23% from the 3,602 death toll about 24 hours before.

The state’s tally of confirmed cases and people who have died from coronavirus in the five boroughs is different than the city’s own count. The state reported 4,695 deaths from coronavirus in the city as of Wednesday.



The city and state said Tuesday they’ll begin using the same set of coronavirus-related data after the Daily News flagged discrepancies in their reporting, though the numbers still weren’t synced by Thursday morning.

Officials have also stressed that the number of people infected with COVID-19 is likely far higher than confirmed cases because many New Yorkers can’t or won’t be tested. Mayor de Blasio also said this week that the city is also likely undercounting the coronavirus death toll because hundreds of people are dying at home without being diagnosed with the disease.

The average age of all 84,373 people who tested positive for coronavirus is 50 and 51% are at least 50 years old. Fifty-four percent of confirmed cases were in men.

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Most people the city reported dying of COVID-19 were older and or had underlying health conditions that made them more vulnerable to the virus, including diabetes, asthma, lung disease, cancer and immunodeficiency.

More than 70% of all people reported to have died were at least 65 years old and about 71% of all 4,426 had preexisting conditions, according to city health data. Nearly 60% of those who died were men.

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While Queens still has the highest number of confirmed cases and deaths reported by the city, the Bronx had the most positive tests per capita as of Wednesday night.

Queens had 27,063 confirmed cases and 1,377 reported deaths as of Thursday morning, health data shows.

The Bronx had at least 17,648 confirmed cases and 1,080 reported deaths, Brooklyn had 22,550 confirmed cases and 1,220 reported deaths, Manhattan had 11,244 confirmed cases and 519 deaths and Staten Island had 5,831 confirmed cases and 229 deaths.

Latest coronavirus updates: Click here for our roundup of the most important developments from NYC and around the world.

 

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80% of NYC's coronavirus patients who are put on ventilators ultimately die, and some doctors are trying to stop using them

A patient with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, wears a snorkeling mask converted into a ventilator in Paris on April 1. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo

• Some doctors are trying to reduce their reliance on ventilators for coronavirus patients because of reports of abnormally high death rates for patients using the machines, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
• New York City officials have said at least 80% of coronavirus patients who were on ventilators in the city died, the AP reported. Unusually high death rates have also been recorded elsewhere in the US and the world.
• Ventilators are typically used only for the worst-affected patients, and there are no drugs approved to treat COVID-19, so this could help explain the higher death rate.
• But doctors have also said ventilators can damage the lungs — and while the machines may be an effective way to treat other respiratory illnesses, some are looking for alternative treatments.
• Because there is a global ventilator shortage, doctors and healthcare systems have called for more to be made or bought quickly to treat the worst-affected patients.
• Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Some doctors are trying to use ventilators less frequently as some areas have reported high death rates among coronavirus patients who were on them, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday.

Ventilators, machines used to bring oxygen into a person's lungs, are typically used only for the patients worst affected by respiratory diseases.

Experts have said that some 40% to 50% of patients with severe respiratory issues die while on ventilators, the AP reported.

New York City officials have said at least 80% of coronavirus patients who were put on ventilators there ultimately died, the AP reported. New York state has the most confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths in the US.

There have also been reports of unusually high death rates among patients on ventilators elsewhere in the US and in China and the UK, the AP said.

Workers make ventilators at a plant in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday.
Europa Press News/Europa Press via Getty Images
Putting a person on a ventilator is an extreme step saved for the worst-affected patients, who typically already have the highest chance of dying from respiratory failure.

The higher death rates could be a result of this, as well as the fact that there are so far no drugs approved to fight the coronavirus.

Ventilators could be further harming coronavirus patients, some doctors say
Some doctors are also concerned that ventilators could be further harming certain coronavirus patients, as the treatment is hard on the lungs, the AP reported.

Dr. Tiffany Osborn, a critical-care specialist at the Washington University School of Medicine, told NPR on April 1 that ventilators could actually damage a patient's lungs.

"The ventilator itself can do damage to the lung tissue based on how much pressure is required to help oxygen get processed by the lungs," she said.

Dr. Negin Hajizadeh, a pulmonary critical-care doctor at New York's Hofstra/Northwell School of Medicine, also told NPR that while ventilators worked well for people with diseases like pneumonia, they don't necessarily also work for coronavirus patients.

She said that most coronavirus patients in her hospital system who were put on a ventilator had not recovered.

She added that the coronavirus does a lot more damage to the lungs than illnesses like the flu, as "there is fluid and other toxic chemical cytokines, we call them, raging throughout the lung tissue."

Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment wheel bodies to a refrigerated trailer serving as a makeshift morgue at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in New York City on Monday.
John Minchillo/AP
"We know that mechanical ventilation is not benign," Dr. Eddy Fan, an expert on respiratory treatment at Toronto General Hospital, told the AP.

"One of the most important findings in the last few decades is that medical ventilation can worsen lung injury — so we have to be careful how we use it."

Doctors are trying to find other solutions and reduce their reliance on ventilators
The lack of treatment options for coronavirus patients has caused much of the world to turn to ventilators for the worst-affected patients.

But the high death rates reported among patients on ventilators have prompted some doctors to seek alternatives and reduce their reliance on ventilators, the AP reported.

Dr. Joseph Habboushe, an emergency-medicine doctor in Manhattan, told the AP that until a few weeks ago, it was routine in the city to place particularly ill coronavirus patients on ventilators. Now doctors are increasingly trying other treatments.

"If we're able to make them better without intubating them," Habboushe said, "they are more likely to have a better outcome — we think."

A GE worker in Massachusetts takes part in protest on Tuesday demanding that the company use the workforce to produce ventilators and calling for more safety measures.
REUTERS/Brian Snyder
According to the AP, doctors are putting patients in different positions to try to get oxygen into different parts of their lungs, giving patients oxygen through nose tubes, and adding nitric oxide to oxygen treatments to try to increase blood flow.

Dr. Howard Zucker, the New York state health commissioner, said on Wednesday that officials were examining other treatments to use before ventilation but that it was "all experimental," the AP reported.

The global ventilator shortage
The global shortage of ventilators has become one of the big stories of the pandemic, as doctors around the world desperately try to treat patients.

Private companies in the UK have shifted to producing them because of a shortage in the health service, but they aren't likely to make enough before the outbreak peaks in the country, The Guardian reported on Friday.

In Italy, doctors have had to decide which patients are more likely to survive and therefore who they will put on a ventilator; they have turned patients away because of the shortage.

In Spain, the police have asked people to donate snorkels so that their parts could be used to build makeshift ventilators.

The police in Madrid on Monday asked people to donate full-face snorkel masks that could be used as makeshift ventilators for COVID-19 patients.

Madrid Police/Twitter
In the US, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has decried a ventilator shortage in the state, while other states have said they've had to battle the federal government for new ones and enlisted private companies to fix broken ventilators received from the federal stockpile

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-ventilators-some-doctors-try-reduce-use-new-york-death-rate-2020-4

 

[rambro]

4500 death toll?
The exact amount is triple.

 

[riscol]

16231 deaths, 456712 infected. More like exploding trend

 

[Asian.Century]

Coronavirus: New York using mass graves amid outbreak

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Images have emerged of coffins being buried in a mass grave in New York City, as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak continues to rise.

Workers in hazmat outfits were seen using a ladder to descend into a huge pit where the coffins were stacked.

The location is Hart Island, used for New Yorkers with no next of kin or who could not afford a funeral.

New York state now has more coronavirus cases than any single country, according to latest figures.

The state's confirmed caseload of Covid-19 jumped by 10,000 on Thursday to 159,937, of whom 7,000 have died.

Spain has had 153,000 cases and Italy 143,000, while China, where the virus emerged last year, has reported 82,000 cases.

The US as a whole has recorded 462,000 cases and nearly 16,500 deaths. Globally there are 1.6 million cases and 95,000 deaths.

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Image captionAbout 40 coffins were buried on Thursday
The drone footage comes from Hart Island, off the Bronx in Long Island Sound, which has been used for more than 150 years by city officials as a mass burial site for those with no next-of-kin, or families who cannot afford funerals.

It is probable that many of the coffins are for coronavirus victims, but it is not clear whether they fall into the above categories.

Burial operations at the site have ramped up amid the pandemic from one day a week to five days a week, according to the Department of Corrections.

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Prisoners from Rikers Island, the city's main jail complex, usually do the job, but the rising workload has recently been taken over by contractors.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio indicated earlier this week that "temporary burials" might be necessary until the crisis had passed.

"Obviously the place we have used historically is Hart Island," he said.

Media captionIs it too soon for a thriller movie on coronavirus?
The number of coronavirus deaths in New York state increased by 799 on Wednesday, a record high for a third day.

But Governor Andrew Cuomo took heart from the fact that the number of Covid-19 patients admitted to New York hospitals dropped for a second day, to 200.

He said it was a sign social distancing was working. He called the outbreak a "silent explosion that ripples through society with the same randomness, the same evil that we saw on 9/11".

Another glimmer of hope was heralded on Thursday as official projections for the nationwide death toll were lowered.


Dr Anthony Fauci, a key member of the White House's coronavirus task force, told NBC News' Today show on Thursday the final number of Americans who will die from Covid-19 in the outbreak "looks more like 60,000".

In late March, Dr Fauci estimated "between 100,000 and 200,000" could die.

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Image captionMourners attend a funeral in Brooklyn, New York, as the city's coronavirus death toll hit a record high for a third day
The 60,000 projection would match the upper estimate for total flu deaths in the US between October 2019 to March 2020, according to government data.

But Vice-President Mike Pence stressed on Thursday that Covid-19 is about three times as contagious as influenza.

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The White House has previously touted estimates that 2.2 million Americans could die from coronavirus if nothing was done to stop its spread.

Stay-at-home orders have in the meantime closed non-essential businesses in 42 states, while drastically slowing the US economy.

New data on Thursday showed unemployment claims topped 6 million for the second week in a row, bringing the number of Americans out of work over the last three weeks to 16.8 million.

Chicago meanwhile imposed a curfew on liquor sales from 21:00 local time on Thursday to stop the persistent violation of a ban on large gatherings.

Media captionHow caravans are helping frontline medics with a place to stay
The measure, due to remain in place until 30 April, comes after health officials this week said black Chicagoans account for half of all the Illinois city's coronavirus cases and more than 70% of its deaths, despite making up just 30% of the population.

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Media caption‘I just had a baby - now I’m going to the frontline.’
Figures from Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan, Wisconsin and New York reflect the same racial disparity in coronavirus infections.

Presumptive Democratic White House nominee Joe Biden joined growing calls on Thursday for the release of comprehensive racial data on the pandemic.

He said it had cast a spotlight on inequity and the impact of "structural racism".

 

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80% of NYC's coronavirus patients who are put on ventilators ultimately die, and some doctors are trying to stop using them

A patient with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, wears a snorkeling mask converted into a ventilator in Paris on April 1. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo

• Some doctors are trying to reduce their reliance on ventilators for coronavirus patients because of reports of abnormally high death rates for patients using the machines, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
• New York City officials have said at least 80% of coronavirus patients who were on ventilators in the city died, the AP reported. Unusually high death rates have also been recorded elsewhere in the US and the world.
• Ventilators are typically used only for the worst-affected patients, and there are no drugs approved to treat COVID-19, so this could help explain the higher death rate.
• But doctors have also said ventilators can damage the lungs — and while the machines may be an effective way to treat other respiratory illnesses, some are looking for alternative treatments.
• Because there is a global ventilator shortage, doctors and healthcare systems have called for more to be made or bought quickly to treat the worst-affected patients.
• Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Some doctors are trying to use ventilators less frequently as some areas have reported high death rates among coronavirus patients who were on them, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday.

Ventilators, machines used to bring oxygen into a person's lungs, are typically used only for the patients worst affected by respiratory diseases.

Experts have said that some 40% to 50% of patients with severe respiratory issues die while on ventilators, the AP reported.

New York City officials have said at least 80% of coronavirus patients who were put on ventilators there ultimately died, the AP reported. New York state has the most confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths in the US.

There have also been reports of unusually high death rates among patients on ventilators elsewhere in the US and in China and the UK, the AP said.

Workers make ventilators at a plant in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday.
Europa Press News/Europa Press via Getty Images
Putting a person on a ventilator is an extreme step saved for the worst-affected patients, who typically already have the highest chance of dying from respiratory failure.

The higher death rates could be a result of this, as well as the fact that there are so far no drugs approved to fight the coronavirus.

Ventilators could be further harming coronavirus patients, some doctors say
Some doctors are also concerned that ventilators could be further harming certain coronavirus patients, as the treatment is hard on the lungs, the AP reported.

Dr. Tiffany Osborn, a critical-care specialist at the Washington University School of Medicine, told NPR on April 1 that ventilators could actually damage a patient's lungs.

"The ventilator itself can do damage to the lung tissue based on how much pressure is required to help oxygen get processed by the lungs," she said.

Dr. Negin Hajizadeh, a pulmonary critical-care doctor at New York's Hofstra/Northwell School of Medicine, also told NPR that while ventilators worked well for people with diseases like pneumonia, they don't necessarily also work for coronavirus patients.

She said that most coronavirus patients in her hospital system who were put on a ventilator had not recovered.

She added that the coronavirus does a lot more damage to the lungs than illnesses like the flu, as "there is fluid and other toxic chemical cytokines, we call them, raging throughout the lung tissue."

Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment wheel bodies to a refrigerated trailer serving as a makeshift morgue at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in New York City on Monday.
John Minchillo/AP
"We know that mechanical ventilation is not benign," Dr. Eddy Fan, an expert on respiratory treatment at Toronto General Hospital, told the AP.

"One of the most important findings in the last few decades is that medical ventilation can worsen lung injury — so we have to be careful how we use it."

Doctors are trying to find other solutions and reduce their reliance on ventilators
The lack of treatment options for coronavirus patients has caused much of the world to turn to ventilators for the worst-affected patients.

But the high death rates reported among patients on ventilators have prompted some doctors to seek alternatives and reduce their reliance on ventilators, the AP reported.

Dr. Joseph Habboushe, an emergency-medicine doctor in Manhattan, told the AP that until a few weeks ago, it was routine in the city to place particularly ill coronavirus patients on ventilators. Now doctors are increasingly trying other treatments.

"If we're able to make them better without intubating them," Habboushe said, "they are more likely to have a better outcome — we think."

A GE worker in Massachusetts takes part in protest on Tuesday demanding that the company use the workforce to produce ventilators and calling for more safety measures.
REUTERS/Brian Snyder
According to the AP, doctors are putting patients in different positions to try to get oxygen into different parts of their lungs, giving patients oxygen through nose tubes, and adding nitric oxide to oxygen treatments to try to increase blood flow.

Dr. Howard Zucker, the New York state health commissioner, said on Wednesday that officials were examining other treatments to use before ventilation but that it was "all experimental," the AP reported.

The global ventilator shortage
The global shortage of ventilators has become one of the big stories of the pandemic, as doctors around the world desperately try to treat patients.

Private companies in the UK have shifted to producing them because of a shortage in the health service, but they aren't likely to make enough before the outbreak peaks in the country, The Guardian reported on Friday.

In Italy, doctors have had to decide which patients are more likely to survive and therefore who they will put on a ventilator; they have turned patients away because of the shortage.

In Spain, the police have asked people to donate snorkels so that their parts could be used to build makeshift ventilators.

The police in Madrid on Monday asked people to donate full-face snorkel masks that could be used as makeshift ventilators for COVID-19 patients.

Madrid Police/Twitter
In the US, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has decried a ventilator shortage in the state, while other states have said they've had to battle the federal government for new ones and enlisted private companies to fix broken ventilators received from the federal stockpile

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-ventilators-some-doctors-try-reduce-use-new-york-death-rate-2020-4

If ventilator dont helps but worsen. Then how do u treat patient with serious respiratory problem affected by Covid-19. They will still died if no oxygen reached them soon enough in the body, right? Or maybe becos some of the ventilators are makeshift, home made version which dont go thru proper QC and used due to emergency which result in non regulate of pumping of oxygen into lung that causes more damage?

 

[Asian.Century]

If ventilator dont helps but worsen. Then how do u treat patient with serious respiratory problem affected by Covid-19. They will still died if no oxygen reached them soon enough in the body, right? Or maybe becos some of the ventilators are makeshift, home made version which dont go thru proper QC and used due to emergency which result in non regulate of pumping of oxygen into lung that causes more damage?

Frankly, those who are smokers, asthma it is not good in cornavirus. Ventilators use extra pressure and throw inside a person lungs to create enough saturation to breath properly and send oxygen to different body organs, but it also damages lungs, the rate have to be exact and care must be taken to use the ventilator in extreme circumstances.

 

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Countries now revising actual death and cases count:



New York City death toll spikes with revised count

Apr 14, 2020

New York City's health department has revised its death toll to include probable COVID-19 cases. Now, more than 10,000 people have died in the city. Mola Lenghi reports.

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If ventilator dont helps but worsen. Then how do u treat patient with serious respiratory problem affected by Covid-19. They will still died if no oxygen reached them soon enough in the body, right? Or maybe becos some of the ventilators are makeshift, home made version which dont go thru proper QC and used due to emergency which result in non regulate of pumping of oxygen into lung that causes more damage?

Based on the autopsy of COVIC-19 dead body, the virus produced a lot of thick and sticky mucus in the lung.

High pressured ventilator just makes the mucus even sticker by pushing it to the lung wall by high pressured air, blocking the lung to gain oxygen.

The doctor should give them drugs to melt down the mucus first, then using the ventilator.