Many coronavirus patients who were recently hospitalized in New York state had been staying home, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) said Wednesday, a statistic he called “shocking." At his daily briefing, Cuomo said that of 1,000 patients at hospitals across the state, 66 percent of new admissions came from people sheltering in place. “We thought maybe they were taking public transportation, and we’ve taken special precautions on public transportation, but actually no, because these people were literally at home.”The next highest source of admissions came from nursing homes, at 18 percent. A much smaller fraction had been in other residential facilities, in jail or prison, or homeless before being taken to the hospital.

Source: Washington Post May 07, 2020 04:26 UTC