Andrew Cuomo (D), in an opinion piece published in The New York Times on Sunday, called on President Donald Trump to use the military to expand hospital capacity as the coronavirus continues to spread across the United States. “You must anticipate that, without immediate action, the imminent failure of hospital systems is all but certain,” Cuomo wrote. “This would crush the nation’s medical system,” Cuomo wrote. There’s an average of just 2.8 hospital beds per 1,000 people in the U.S., according to the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. In New York state alone, which has a population of about 20 million, there are 53,470 hospital beds, only 3,186 of which are intensive-care beds, according to Cuomo.

Source: Huffington Post March 15, 2020 16:07 UTC