Today New York reaches a milestone in the battle of COVID-19. For the first time hospitalizations have fallen below 1000 cases. Still a lot of people. Unfortunately, other states are not having such luck. Below is the daily email from Governor Andrew Cuomo on the status of the virus in New York State.
A good friend of ours at Medical Community is Dr. Jessica Israel Senior Vice President of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at RWJ Barnabas Health in New Jersey. She wrote an important piece in the Harvard Business Review published today. It's important to learn how families are coping with not being with their loved one's at bedside for weeks or months at a time, especially if they are in ICU suffering with COVID-19. The attending physicians also have the difficult task of conveying updates to family members over the phone, no hugs, no hand holding. Doctors feel the pain of the patients and families and Dr. Israel recounts her personal experience below.
After months of lockdown and shelter in place COVID-19 does not want to give up. Cases are surging in the sunbelt section of the United States. Why this is occurring is not really known. What is known is that new cases are trending down in age. States are hitting new single day records of the Coronavirus.
According to Time Out NY, which tracks and creates a complete list of things to do in and around the city, they have put out a great synopsis of what will be opening in Phase 2 and what still is off limits. It seems the Mayor Bill De Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo have a bit of a discrepancy.
As many of you like the nightly Coronavirus report from Governor Andrew Cuomo of NY, sent to millions of New Yorkers, today seems NY state has good news. The US Open Tennis will be played, albeit without fans.