The COVID 19 pandemic has infected thousands of people across the world. The United States of America is among the countries with the highest number of confirmed cases of the COVID 19 virus in the world.
The number of confirmed cases in the United States doubles almost every day, especially in New York city, the city of lights that never sleeps.
New York alone has confirmed over 83,901 cases of the COVID 19 virus and a death toll of about 1,400 people.
The state has been labelled as the ground zero for the Pandemic outbreak in the whole of the United States has about 215,357 confirmed cases of the COVID 19 virus with about 5,113 deaths.
New Jersey, the state that shares the closest border with the city has the second highest number of confirmed cases of the COVID 19 virus of about 22,255 infected people with 355 deaths.
New York hospitals are currently packed to full capacity so the army Corps of engineers converted the Jacob K. Javits center into a 3,000 bed medical facility.
The situation has gotten so bad that Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York has sent out an urgent plea for medical volunteers to assist in this time of crises.
The Governor said that medical volunteers can come from anywhere within the country. Also, that anyone who says the crisis is limited to New York is in a state of denial, that the virus can move across states and its moving across the nation, no American is immune to it.
Governor Cuomo has publicly criticized the President of the United States, Donald Trump for his delayed actions in fighting the COVID 19 virus.
He said that the people have to stand up to the president and tell him that the fight against the COVID 19 virus is not a political exercise and it is not press relations. Andrew Cuomo said, ‘The Tsunami is Coming’.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United States government’s top infection – disease experts has warned smaller states and cities within the country that the virus is about to take off in their states just like it has in New York City.
Anthony Faucialso warned that the death toll from the virus could hit about 100,000 to 200,000 people within the United States.
Andrew Cuomo said that New York will not return to its normal state after the wave from the COVID 19 pandemic passes. He said that the state will have a new normal and the Pandemic may later bring about a positive change in the state rather than a negative one.