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By John Wojcik
Doctors at New York hospitals are saying they fear that very soon they will have to make decisions about who lives and who dies because they do not have the equipment they need to treat all of their patients.
In a desperate attempt to deal with an unprecedented pandemic, New York’s leaders are warning that the city and state are hanging by their fingernails as they struggle to avoid being sucked into an abyss. As they issue these warnings, the UN’s World Health Organization has declared that the United States as a whole is rapidly becoming the epicenter of the worldwide pandemic.
New York officials warn that the city is becoming the next Italy and that the infection curve in New York is worse than it is in that country. The infection rate in New York is close to the rate in Spain, where the number of infections doubles every day and the national death toll has now surpassed that of China.
For two days in a row now, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has warned that despite a virtual lockdown of the people and freezing of the economy, the spread of COVID-19 is accelerating dangerously and the people of the nation’s second-most populous state are desperate for the tools they need to fight back. Those tools include ventilators and more hospital beds. The horrific...
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