New York governor blasts 'selfish' residents; California short on hospital beds
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) - The governor of New York on Wednesday (April 1) cracked down even harder on public gatherings in the face of the coronavirus, calling residents who disregarded stay-at-home rules "selfish" as California's governor warned his state will run out of hospital beds by next month.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told New York City police to more aggressively enforce rules for social distancing as deaths in the state shot up to nearly 2,000.
"Young people must get this message, and they still have not gotten the message, you still see too many situations with too much density by young people," said Cuomo, who said models showed the outbreak worsening until the end of April.
Cuomo said he was closing playgrounds, swing sets, basketball courts and similar spaces, while open spaces in parks would remain open for now.
He sounded vexed by reports of crowds gathering at a Manhattan pier to watch the arrival of the US Navy hospital ship, the Comfort.
"How reckless and irresponsible and selfish for people not to do it on their own," Cuomo said.
All told 4,529 people have died across the United States from Covid-19 so far, according to a Reuters tally, with more than 205,000 cases reported.
White House medical experts have forecast that even with strict observance of stay-at-home orders imposed in 36 states and the District of Columbia, some 100,000 to 240,000 people could die from the respiratory disease.
Since 2010, the flu has killed between 12,000 and 61,000 Americans a year, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
The 1918-1919 flu pandemic killed 675,000 in the United States, according to the CDC
While New York remains the centre of the pandemic, states across the country experienced a surge of cases, including California, Michigan, Florida, and New Jersey.
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