NYT: N.Y. Now Testing 7,500 Per Day for Coronavirus: Live Updates

[Mike 03]

A big increase in testing finds a spike in new cases.
A few days ago, New York State was testing only a few hundred people a day for coronavirus.

Last night, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said, the state processed the tests of more than 7,500 people.

Testing has ramped up as dozen of private laboratories in the state have been authorized to test for the virus. Two government-run labs had shouldered most of the state’s testing until recently.

The huge jump in testing and the quickening spread of the virus yielded sobering news: more than 1,700 newly discovered cases in New York State.

The total as of Thursday morning stood at 4,152 cases statewide, up from 2,382 cases on Wednesday. There were 777 people hospitalized statewide. At least 21 people have died of the virus in New York State.

Since Monday, the case count in New York State has more than quadrupled.

In New York City, there were 2,469 cases as of Thursday, up nearly a thousand from Wednesday. At least 11 people in the city have died.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html

This level of testing should be happening nationwide.

[matt819]

1. US cases have doubled since Monday

And when the testing comes more fully online, those numbers are going to soar. Those numbers are going to make the cruise ship numbers seem quaint and almost reasonable.

To remind trump et al. Yes, those are numbers. But those numbers represent sick people and dead people. And those sick and those dying and those dead have families and friends. And many, probably most, of those family members couldn't be with their loved ones at the end. So people are sick and dying alone. This is what real human beings call tragedy. We know all too well that no one in this administration of sociopaths cannot understand this concept. And as much as you and your sycophants in the government and media are trying to rewrite events even as they are unfolding, history will not be kind. And I can only hope - probably in vain - that many of you can be held criminally liable for what is happening in the US.