COVID-19 pandemic in New York City
The COVID-19 pandemic in New York City occurs as a regional part of the global COVID-19 pandemic . The first confirmed infection with COVID-19 in New York City , the largest city in the United States , was on March 1, 2020. On March 15, the state of New York , in which New York City is located, was discovered by the German Robert Koch Institute classified as a risk area.
course
March 2020
The first confirmed infection was on March 1, it was a 39-year-old woman from Manhattan . She had come back from Iran on February 25 and was symptom-free at the time. She went into isolation at home with her husband.
On March 9, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that there are 16 confirmed cases.
As of March 17, there were 814 infected people.
By the evening of March 25, there were over 17,000 infected people, including 3,000 patients.
As of March 27, there were 26,000 infected.
3200 employees, almost a tenth of the New York Police Department , fell ill on March 26th.
In March 2020, was USNS Comfort , a hospital ship of the US Navy dispatched with a capacity of 1,000 beds, to New York to the city's hospitals as part of COVID-19 pandemic to relieve. However, no patients infected with COVID-19 should be treated on the ship itself. She arrived in New York on March 30th. In the meantime, it has been converted to accommodate Covid 19 patients, but since it was hardly used, the ship was withdrawn at the end of April. There were four emergency hospitals built with the support of the federal government, of which only the Javits Convention Center with 2500 beds was used until the end of April 2020.
On March 31, the NYC Health Department estimated 8,549 hospitalized patients, on April 4 the number rose to 12,716 and on April 6 to 15,333.
April 2020
On April 6, there were officially 68,776 infected people.
On April 23, 2020, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the preliminary results of a randomized antibody test on 3,000 people in New York State. After that, 13.9 percent tested positive for Covid-19, extrapolated to the population that would correspond to 2.7 million cases, a far higher number than the 257,216 cases that had tested positive up to then. In New York City the share was 21 percent, which would correspond to a number of 8.4 million residents of 1.76 million. Since 15,700 Covid-19 deaths were known in New York State by then, the rate would correspond to a mortality of 0.5 percent, but the number of unreported deaths is probably higher. In the 2nd phase of the antibody test, the sample was increased to 7500 people and the results were presented by Governor Andrew Cuomo on April 27th. After that, 14.9 percent tested positive in New York State and 24.7 percent in New York City. After 15,000 tests, the results, as Cuomo announced on May 2, were: 12.3 percent positive in the state and 19.9 percent in New York City, with the Bronx most affected (27.6 percent positive) and ethnicities the Latinos (25.4 percent positive).
A medical expert who toured a Brooklyn prison on April 23 later stated in a report that the six cases found there were likely only the "tip of the iceberg". Symptoms are not systematically noted, and many requests for medical help are only answered days later or not at all.
On April 24, 2020, the US state of New York alone has more infected people than any other nation except the US itself, according to JHU. In terms of the number of deaths, New York state ranks 6th worldwide.
As of April 26, 2020, there were 153,204 confirmed cases. An estimated 39,635 cases were hospitalized. There were 11,460 confirmed deaths. There were also 5,213 other probable deaths.
Infections and deaths
Confirmed Infections by Municipality
| date | Manhattan | Queens | Brooklyn | Bronx | Staten Island | Unknown | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17. March | 277 | 248 | 157 | 96 | 36 | 814 | |
| March 31 | 6,539 | 13,869 | 11,160 | 7,814 | 2,354 | 35 | 41,771 |
| April 5th | 9,135 | 21,342 | 17,257 | 12,467 | 3,530 | 36 | 63,767 |
| April 19th | 16,987 | 40.714 | 35.203 | 29,505 | 9,986 | 72 | 132,467 |
Deaths
The table shows the total number (added up to the given date).
| date | total |
|---|---|
| 17. March | 17th |
| 25th March | almost 200 |
| 27th of March | 450 |
| March 31 | 1,096 |
| April 5th | 2,256 |
| April 6th | 2,738 |
| April 19th | 9.101 (confirmed) |
| April 26, 2020 | 11,460 (confirmed) |
Web links
- New York City Health Department: COVID-19: Data. Retrieved on April 1, 2020 (American English, current statistics from the municipal health authority): “We are discouraging people with mild to moderate symptoms from being tested at this time, so the data primarily represent people with more severe illness. (...) This page will be updated daily at 7 pm "
Individual evidence
- ↑ COVID-19: International risk areas and particularly affected areas in Germany. Robert Koch Institute , March 15, 2020 (will be updated continuously).
- ↑ https://www.wsj.com/articles/first-case-of-coronavirus-confirmed-in-new-york-state-11583111692
- ↑ https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/02/us/new-york-coronavirus-first-case/index.html
- ↑ https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/03/09/new-york-city-coronavirus-case-numbers-health-update
- ^ A b c Zack Fink: Cuomo: There Will Be No Shelter-in-Place Order for New York City. In: New York One. March 17, 2020, accessed on March 26, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Marc Pitzke: New York City is becoming the epicenter of the corona crisis. In: Spiegel Online. March 26, 2020, accessed March 26, 2020 .
- ↑ a b https://www.rnd.de/politik/rnd-report-aus-dem-epizentrum-new-york-nirgendwo-ist-es-so-schlimm-wie-hier-LGOO5XERVFDKRGXMPIE2F7FUMM.html
- ↑ Christoph Seidler: Corona crisis: hospital ship “USNS Comfort” is supposed to bring help to New York. In: Der Spiegel . March 31, 2020, accessed March 31, 2020 .
- ^ New York City Health Department: COVID-19: Data. Retrieved April 1, 2020 (American English): "Total hospitalized *: 8,549 (* Estimated)"
- ^ New York City Health Department: COVID-19: Data. Retrieved April 5, 2020 (American English): “Total hospitalized *: 12,716. As of: 04/04/2020, 5:00 pm. (* Estimated) "
- ↑ https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
- ↑ https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
- ↑ New York antibody tests: 2.7 million possibly infected with coronavirus statewide , syracuse.com, April 23, 2020
- ↑ Aila Slisco: Coronavirus Antibodies Found In One-Quarter of All New York City Residents, Cuomo Says , Newsweek, April 28, 2020
- ↑ Nick Pinto: Medical Expert: Federal Jail Intentionally Destroying Medical Records and Hiding Extent of Coronavirus Behind Bars. In: The Intercept . April 1, 2020, accessed May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
- ^ A b New York City Health Department: Daily Data Summary (as of March 31, 2020). (PDF) Retrieved April 1, 2020 (American English): "These data include cases in NYC residents and foreign residents treated in NYC facilities."
- ^ A b New York City Health Department: Daily Data Summary (as of April 5, 2020 at 9:45 AM). (PDF) Retrieved April 5, 2020 (American English): "These data include cases in NYC residents and foreign residents treated in NYC facilities."
- ^ A b New York City Health Department: Daily Data Summary (as of April 19, 2020 at 9:45 AM). (PDF) Retrieved April 21, 2020 (American English): "These data include cases in NYC residents and foreign residents treated in NYC facilities."
- ^ New York City Health Department: Daily Data Summary (as of April 6, 2020 at 9:30 AM). (PDF) Retrieved April 6, 2020 (American English): "These data include cases in NYC residents and foreign residents treated in NYC facilities."
