New York City hospitals and nursing homes are drawing on lessons learned in the spring as they prepare for a potential COVID, according to an article on the ABC News site.
In March and April, resources were thin, emergency rooms overflowed and funeral homes stacked corpses in refrigerated trailers.
Doctors say they have better coronavirus treatments, three-month supplies of personal protective equipment and contingency staffing plans.
Similar preparations are underway at New York’s nursing homes.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is warning that the state’s progress is being threatened by the national surge in cases. The state’s overall test positivity rate is now 1.81 percent, but in hot zone areas it stands at 2.63 present, according to an ABC7 article.
Read the full ABC News article.
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