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The expected shortfall of ventilators – machines that support breathing for people who have lost the ability on their own – was substantial, he said.

The goal is to get to a capacity of 140 000 hospital beds, up from the current 53 000, and authorities are scouting new sites, Cuomo said. Deborah White, vice chair of emergency medicine at Jack D. Weiler Hospital in the city’s Bronx borough, said 80% of its emergency room visits were patients with coronavirus-like symptoms.

Warner Thomas, chief executive at Ochsner Medical Centre, Louisiana’s largest hospital system, said: “We are seeing an escalation in cases across our system.”

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