New York Gov. Cuomo said he’s ‘seeing people die all around me’ and warns the storm is near as hospital ship arrives
NEW York Governor Cuomo said he’s “seeing people die all around me” and warned the storm is near as the USNS Comfort hospital ship arrives in NYC. Speaking on MSNBC Morning Joe, the NYS governor became emotional about the COVID-19 pandemic hours before the US Navy ship as it docked at Manhattan’s Pier 90. “My […]
NEW York Governor Cuomo said he’s “seeing people die all around me” and warned the storm is near as the USNS Comfort hospital ship arrives in NYC.
Speaking on MSNBC Morning Joe, the NYS governor became emotional about the COVID-19 pandemic hours before the US Navy ship as it docked at Manhattan’s Pier 90.
“My plea is, and pardon me if I’m a little emotional, but I’m living with this 24 hours a day and I’m seeing people die all around me,” Cuomo said Monday when the Comfort arrived.
The ship holding vital supplies and 1,000 hospital beds for the City was escorted by NYPD Harbor and Aviation as it arrived in New York harbor shortly after 10.30 am.
“The science people, the government professionals have to stand up and look the President in the eye and say this is not a political exercise,” Cuomo said earlier. “This is not press relations. It’s not optics.
“The tsunami is coming. We know it is. Now is the time to gather supplies, do the preparations because it’s too late the day before.”
Cuomo issued a stark warning to residents, saying “if you have not done the work before the storm hits, it’s too late to do it once the storm hits.”
“And the storm is coming,” he added, as the death toll in-state surged past 1,000 this week.
But despite the vital equipment the Comfort was bringing, Cuomo earlier warned that New York was the “canary in the coal mine” during the pandemic, which has claimed the lives of 776 people in NYC alone.
The USCS ship docked in NYC on Monday morning[/caption]
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Countrywide, over 2,500 Americans have lost their lives to the virus as of March 30.
His comments came after the first COVID-19 patients in Los Angeles were rushed onboard the Comfort’s sister ship in California on Sunday, reports Fox News.
The USNS Mercy docked off the coast of LA on Friday to “serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients” hospitalized on land.