New York Hospital Discharges Outpace New Admissions for 4th Straight Day
By The Epoch Times. Hospitals in New York state have discharged more COVID-19 patients than they have added for four days in a row, according to the latest data from the state hit hardest by the CCP virus pandemic.
Hospitals in the state discharged 1,709 COVID-19 patients on April 4, while admitting 574 patients. The number of daily discharges had also surpassed the daily admissions on the three prior days, state data shows.
“Discharge rate is way up and that’s great news,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on April 5.
New York has been the U.S. epicenter for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, also known as the novel coronavirus. While New York City has borne the brunt of the outbreak, there has been an increasing shift to Long Island, which now accounts for 22 percent of the state’s COVID-19 hospitalizations. (Read more from “New York Hospital Discharges Outpace New Admissions for 4th Straight Day” HERE)
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Fauci Says Coronavirus Hospitalizations Are Dropping Because Social Distancing Is Working
By CNN. The number of coronavirus patients in New York and Connecticut is starting to rise at a slower rate and the nation’s top infectious disease official says it’s a sign that social distancing is working.
“At the same time as we’re seeing the increase in deaths, we’re seeing a rather dramatic decrease in the need for hospitalizations,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told reporters at a White House briefing Thursday.
“That means that what we are doing is working and therefore we need to continue to do it,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, added. (Read more from “Fauci Says Coronavirus Hospitalizations Are Dropping Because Social Distancing Is Working” HERE)
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