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De Blasio: Number of coronavirus patients who need ventilators has ‘improved’

By
Julia Marsh,
Georgett Roberts and
Natalie Musumeci
Published April 7, 2020
Updated April 7, 2020, 2:16 p.m. ET

Mayor Bill de Blasio offered up some “good news” in the city’s battle against coronavirus Tuesday, saying that the number of COVID-19 patients in Big Apple hospitals who need ventilators has “improved in recent days.”

“The good news is it’s giving us some more time,” the mayor said of the development during a press briefing at the PS 1 Alfred E. Smith school in Chinatown. “It’s giving us the opportunity to get more ventilators in.”

The mayor added that “for the first time” Monday “we did not see a major increase in the number of ventilators needed” in the city’s public hospital system, Health + Hospitals.

Approximately 830 coronavirus patients were intubated across the Health + Hospitals system, which makes up 20 percent of the health care capacity in the city, de Blasio said.

“That number was pretty stable from Sunday into Monday,” Hizzoner said.

However, the mayor warned that it’s no time for anyone to “let their guard down” and urged that all New Yorkers still practice social distancing and follow stay-at-home orders.

“I am hopeful, but I’m not drawing conclusions until I am 100 percent sure,” de Blasio said.

The mayor called the progress “encouraging,” but noted, “we got to see it happen for a number of days” before declaring a trend or a pattern.

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Hizzoner added, “We are not experiencing the worst-case scenario, thank God.”

The stability of the ICU numbers, de Blasio said, is a “testament” to the social distancing that New Yorkers have been practicing.

But, he said, “Certainly we are not there yet.”

“I want to make sure no one stops social distancing and shelter-in-place,” de Blasio said.

The news about ventilator use comes a day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered some potentially good news as well, saying state death numbers may show a flattening of the curve.