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Speed of coronavirus deaths shock doctors as New York toll hits new high

“This virus attacked the vulnerable and attacked the weak, and it’s our job as a society to protect the vulnerable.”

Patients “look fine, feel fine, then you turn around and they’re unresponsive,” said Diana Torres, a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, the center of the nation’s worst outbreak. “I’m paranoid, scared to walk out of their room.” New Jersey reported 275 had died there. Both totals exceeded one-day records from just a day earlier.Cuomo cited a drop in new hospitalizations and other data as evidence that New York’s social-distancing restrictions were “bending the curve,” helping to gain some control over the infection rate.

While public health experts say such measures are vital for controlling the contagion, the restrictions have strangled the US economy, leading to widespread layoffs, upheavals on Wall Street and projections of a severe recession.

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