New York's Death Tally Up Slightly Even as Pandemic Subsides

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN

(Bloomberg) -- Daily coronavirus fatalities in New York rose slightly to 437, but Saturday marked the sixth straight day of deaths under 500 and hospitalizations dropped to the lowest point since the beginning of April, Governor Andrew Cuomo said.

“Twenty-one days of hell but we are back to where we were,” Cuomo said of overall hospitalizations.

Almost all indicators showed that the Covid-19 outbreak in New York, still the worst the U.S., was on the “decline,” the governor said. Deaths compared to the peak of fatalities of 799 on April 9.

New cases rose on Saturday by 10,553 compared to 8,130 on Friday, for a statewide total of 282,143, about 10% of all reported coronavirus cases worldwide.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-yorks-death-tally-up-slightly-even-as-pandemic-subsides/ar-BB13c7nZ?li=BBnb7Kz

[Squinch]

1. "As pandemic subsides." I have a bridge to sell that writer.

[Bengus81]

2. Subsides?? Going up on a daily basis in Kansas after not that many early on

2,379 new cases in 20 days.

[LudwigPastorius]

3. MSN's headline is irresponsible.

The hospitalization rate may have subsided, but the pandemic has not. The pathogen is as virulent and communicable as it ever was.

The fact that the U.S. rate of infection may be below the point of choking the ability of the health care system to deal with it is cause for some relief, however some people are getting it into their heads (Republican, Trump-loving Governors included) that this thing is on the way to being over.

It won't be over until there is a vaccine.