Prognosis
NYC’s Progress Against Virus Misses State’s Goals and Its Own
- Crowded hospitals and ICUs still stymie reopening efforts
- Mayor de Blasio predicts city’s partial reopening by mid-June
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New York City is struggling to meet state standards for reopening the most populous U.S. city, and is moving in the wrong direction on some of its own metrics, including hospital admissions.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has predicted that the city’s hospitals and intensive-care units will no longer be overwhelmed by Covid-19 patients by mid-June. While the crushing influx of the critically ill has eased, Tuesday’s data showed virus admissions to hospitals and public hospital intensive-care units were increasing as of May 16.