FILE PHOTO: Ambulances are seen lined up outside The Samaritan’s Purse Emergency Field Hospital in Central Park in Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, New York, U.S., April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar
(Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Friday that the number of coronavirus patients in intensive care units across the state dropped in the last day, offering a glimmer of hope that the surge in critical care hospitalizations might be leveling off.
Cuomo said there were 17 fewer patients in the state’s intensive care units on Thursday than a day prior, a decrease in that figure “for the first time since we started this…journey,” Cuomo said at a news briefing.
“That’s the first time we’ve seen a negative number, so that’s good,” he said.
Reporting by Gabriella Borter; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama