Shocking footage reveals #coronavirus patients being treated in corridors at #NYC hospital as doctors beg for ventilators and the death toll in the city surges past 1,000. New York state recorded 76,049 confirmed coronavirus cases by the end of Tuesday and 1,550 people have died from the killer disease. In New York City alone, there have been 1,096 deaths and 43,119 cases - with 182 more deaths in the last day. Among its overwhelmed hospitals is the Brookdale Hospital Medical Center in Brooklyn where patients line the hallways in their beds and doctors are struggling to keep up with their needs. The 370-bed hospital has already reached full capacity. One desperate doctor told CBS2 that the hospital had become a 'medical warzone'.
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Following phone talk between Russia's Presidents Putin & US President Donald Trump, Russia sends largest cargo aircraft An-124 Ruslan with medical supplies (masks + equipment) to US to help fight COVID-19 pandemic, save lives of American citizens.
The New York Police Department is being rocked by the coronavirus outbreak, with more than 1,400 of its members testing positive to COVID-19 and 17 per cent of its uniformed force out sick. The shocking statistics were reported Wednesday morning by CNN, after NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea confirmed that five members of the nation's largest police force have now died in relation to the virus. NYPD Detective Cedric Dixon, 48, was the first member of the force to pass away from COVID-19, with four more civilian members succumbing to the virus in the past six days. The NYPD employs around 38,400 officers. 6,172 were off sick Wednesday - nearly 500 more than the number who called out sick the day before.
The US Surgeon General said on Wednesday that 30 days of social distancing would be long enough to slow the spread of coronavirus in some places but not everywhere. In an interview on Good Morning America, Surgeon General Jerome Adams also warned the public not to use precious N-95 surgical masks in light of an update by the CDC that it is considering advising that everyone should wear a face covering when they go out. 'The original 15 days was designed to slow the spread and for us to have some time to reassess. 'We learned good and bad things. No state has been spared, but when you look at places like Washington and California that aggressively mitigated with social distancing, they were able to flatten their curve.
The Pentagon will send roughly 500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to assist that department's efforts to deal with the coronavirus. Two U.S. officials have said the Pentagon approved a request by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The United States already maintains an average of 5,000 troops at the southwest border to support Border Patrol by performing non-law enforcement duties. The latest deployment will bolster those ranks as border agents grapple with possible exposure to COVID-19, the disease cause by the virus.
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Captivity of a drunk driver by the Brazilian police.
The UK recorded another 563 coronavirus deaths today, making it the worst day so far in the devastating COVID-19 crisis. The increase takes the country's total death toll to 2,352 - today's surge is 48 per cent larger than yesterday's increase of 381 fatalities and pushes the total up by 31 per cent in a day. And 29,474 people have now tested positive for COVID-19. The UK is the fifth hardest-hit nation in Europe and eighth in the world. Wales today recorded 29 new deaths caused by the coronavirus along with a further 16 fatalities in Scotland and two in Northern Ireland. 486 victims were declared in England and 11 remain unaccounted for. The youngest patient announced today was a 13-year-old, believed to be Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab from Brixton, London, whose tragic death came to light last night after he died at King's College Hospital on Monday. The oldest patient included in today's update was 99 years old.
Estimates from Imperial College London show 15 per cent of Spain's population may already have been infected with the coronavirus. Graph shows Imperial College's estimated infection rates (yellow bar) contrasted with each nations' current death rates - how many of those officially diagnosed can be expected to die (red bar)
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A Deltona woman shot a serial burglar in her home early Tuesday morning, the fourth home the suspect is believed to have tried breaking into, Volusia County sheriff’s officials said. The woman shot the suspect, Joseph Roberts, 32, in the arm after warning him several times to get out of her home while on the telephone with 9-1-1 dispatchers about him, investigators said. Roberts is charged with four counts of burglary of an occupied dwelling and four counts of criminal mischief. The woman who fired at him is not facing any charges, said sheriff’s spokesman Andrew Gant said. The woman fired one shot, hitting Roberts in the arm, and escaped to the back yard with her three kids and three of their friends. Roberts remained in the house, where he was located by responding deputies, Gant said.
The Pentagon is ordering 100,000 body bags as experts predict the coronavirus will claim the lives of more than 200,000 Americans and a new report has suggested the Trump administraion was warned about the threat of coronavirus three years ago but failed to prepare. By Wednesday evening the US death toll had surpassed 4,770 and 90 percent of the country was on lockdown to help slow the spread of COVID-19. With more than 215,000 cases, the government was expected to get the next 50,000 body bags from a stockpile, however preparations were being made to triple up as hospitals and morgues became overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients and were quickly running out of space in states such as California and New York.
Dr Tony Fauci, the country's leading virus expert, painted a grim picture for Americans on Tuesday when he warned that people should be prepared for 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus. President Donald Trump warned Americans to brace for a 'hell of a bad two weeks' ahead as the White House projected there could be 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the US even if current social distancing guidelines are maintained.