New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday gave an impassioned speech to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the end of his news briefing on the coronavirus on Friday, encouraging them all to keep working hard to help build makeshift hospitals to potentially help save lives.
New York plans to build eight temporary hospitals to meet an expected surge in coronavirus patients, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Friday, and the state estimates that demand for hospital capacity will peak in three weeks.
The governor has become a leading national voice on the coronavirus pandemic as the state has accounted for roughly one-third of the national death toll and half the known number of cases.
Cuomo said 44,635 people have tested positive in New York, up about 7,400 from Thursday, and that 519 New Yorkers have died from the virus, up from the previous day's total of 385 deaths.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that he's identified four sites for temporary hospitals and called on the Army Corps of Engineers to..
