Coronavirus updates: New York sees few daily deaths since mid-March

This is our daily update of the latest COVID-19 news for Sunday June 28, 2020. Previous daily updates It can be found hereand updated statistics are here.

New York is in Phase 2 of reopening now, what includes outdoor dining room; hairdressers and hair salons; and children’s parks they are open, . Here’s a look at preparing for the spread of the coronavirus is here, and if you have lingering questions about the virus, here is our Regularly updated coronavirus faq. Here are some local and state hotlines for more information: NYC: 311; New York State Hotline: 888-364-3065; NJ State Hotline: 800-222-1222.

Here is the latest:

12:30 pm: Five people died from COVID-19 in New York State on Saturday, the lowest number of deaths in a day since March 15, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday.

But as coronavirus cases drop in New York, the governor is now concerned that the virus will spread once more as other states see cases grow amid the reopening of businesses.

With five deaths and fewer than 900 hospitalizations, Cuomo said on Meet the Press on NBC Sunday morning: “How does that number increase? Two ways. Non-compliance, and I’m diligent to stay after New Yorkers and local governments that they have to watch it, and second, now I am afraid of the spread from other states, because we are a country and people travel. “

“I’m afraid the infection rate in the other states will go back to New York and raise that rate again,” said Cuomo. “If these states keep going up, we will have a national crisis like we have never seen before. They said this was the way to help the economy by reopening. It was exactly the opposite.”

“Every time the virus goes up, the stock market goes down. And if those states continue to rise, they will see it across the country. They will see New York on the rise again, and they will see the other states begin to rise even more,” he said. Cuomo.

In New York, hospitalizations dropped to 869-39 less than the day before. Newly admitted patients decreased from 24 to 54, and the number of people in intensive care units decreased from 1 to 229. Total deaths increased to 24,835.

Of 61,906 tests conducted on Saturday, 0.99% were positive. In New York City, the positivity rate was 1.1%.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said on Meet the Press Sunday morning that deaths and hospitalizations were the lowest in two months, but noted that some southern states are experiencing sudden increases. Azar emphasized personal responsibility, such as wearing face covers, and community contact trackers in counties that saw cases emerge. But President Donald Trump rarely wears a mask, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the United States needs about 100,000 contact trackers, more than three times what the country currently has.

The secretary and president “basically deny the problem,” Cuomo said when asked on Meet the Press about Azar’s comments.

“They don’t want to tell the American people the truth, and they don’t want to have any federal response, except support the states, support the states,” Cuomo said. “This is a virus. It doesn’t respond to policy. You can’t tweet, you have to deal with it.”

St. Patrick’s Cathedral resumes public masses

Now that New York City is in Phase 2, the Archdiocese of New York is moving forward with its first public mass in several months at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday.

The 10:15 am mass is the first for the church since the pandemic triggered a state shutdown in March. It will be directed by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, and the archdiocese notes: “The Cathedral will be limited to 25% of its capacity, and social distancing and other health and safety guidelines will be followed.” (Its capacity is approximately 3,000.)

Sunday Mass will also be broadcast live here, and there are other Masses throughout the week.

This reopening of a New York institution occurs when the state reports a low number of COVID-19 cases, while much of the rest of the country is experiencing spikes. Hospitalizations are on the rise in Texas, and Florida set a new one-day record for coronavirus cases, 9,585, on Saturday (“The number rivals New York’s peak in daily cases in early April,” reports CNN).

Nearly 40,000 cases have been reported in Florida in the past week, which is one-third of all cases. Local municipalities are enacting requirements to wear masks, while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to refuse to issue a state order, simply saying that the state has already warned people that wearing a mask is “something that could have a Impact. At the same time, police and criminal penalties are likely to backfire. “

The Florida Keys, a group of islands 120 miles south of the southern tip of the state, had been closed to visitors since March 22, their tourism business was devastated. But since its reopening on June 1, the Keys have seen an increase in cases; Dr. Mary Jo Trepka, an epidemiologist at Florida International University, told the Miami Herald: “There is so much COVID in Miami-Dade County, and since they open up to so many people from the rest of South Florida there is probably more exposure in the Keys that was not present when they were fully closed. “

The Florida Keys have a total of 204 known cases and four deaths so far, the Miami Herald reports.

Florida and Texas residents wait in long lines to get tested; according to the NY Times, “In Florida, Saturday’s first car at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando found its place in line for testing at 12:30 am, according to the Association of Public Information Officers of Florida, although testing did not begin until 9 am At one site in Jacksonville, the test line was cut in the early afternoon, before closing, the association said on Twitter. Stefano West drove more than an hour from Killeen to Austin to find one, “he said, then waited about four and a half hours in his car at the site, where officials spent 10 to 45 minutes servicing each car.”

In the great New York Times article on how scientists, public health officials and politicians omitted signs of coronavirus, a German infectious disease specialist at the University Hospital of Munich, Dr. Camilla Rothe noted that a patient became ill from asymptomatic transmission: “Dr. Rothe and her colleagues were among the first to warn the world, but even when evidence accumulated by other scientists, leading health officials expressed unshakable certainty that the spread without Symptoms weren’t important. In the days and weeks to come, rival politicians, public health officials, and academics belittled or ignored the Munich team. Some actively worked to undermine the warnings at a crucial time, as the disease was spreading without being Noticed in French churches, Italian soccer stadiums, and Austrian ski bars – a deadly omen of e spread without symptoms. “

Asymptomatic transmission, when people with COVID-19 feel good and have no obvious symptoms, can now account for 30 to 60 percent of the spread, according to studies in Hong Kong, Singapore, and China cited by the Times. The wearing of masks in Hong Kong has also been recognized as a way to contain the spread of COVID-19.

There are 2,510,323 coronavirus cases and 125,539 deaths in the United States so far, according to Johns Hopkins University. President Donald Trump’s only reference to the pandemic in the past 24-26 hours is to criticize his 2020 electoral rival, Vice President Joe Biden, for Biden’s mistake saying, incorrectly, that 120 million Americans have died. In addition to sharing “wanted” posters of protesters who have damaged monuments, Trump has retweeted a video and praised the people who show it, which clearly shows them screaming about “white power.”