The City of New York publishes various statistics each day including new cases, location (which borough) age, sex and other demographics and number of hospitalizations.
First the good news.
The number of new cases appears to be slowing.
Reporting date, 8:30 am each day:
4414 on March 25And the troubling news.
3101 on March 26
2461 on March 27
Through Thursday at 5pm there have been 4720 hospitalizations.
Bad enough on its own but when combined with the reports of hospitals being overwhelmed you have to ask, what if something really, really big happened?
New York is one of the top two or three terrorism targets in the United States. How would the system respond if there were say 25,000 bioterrorism or biochemical terrorism victims in one day?
Or even 10,000?
After the world gets through all this there will be a need for people a lot smarter than I to figure out what lessons we have been given and what we should learn.
