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.
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 on Friday (April 10).
"That's the first time we've seen a negative number, so that's good," he said.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the state must scale contact tracing to determine who had contact with infected indviduals.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says pharmacists can start conducting diagnostic testing.
