I decided to click on that "article" despite not particularly wanting to give FN the time of day. That is an incredibly misleading selection of partial quotations, and especially a very misleading headline. What he said was that he wasn't *sure*, because we just don't know for sure. But look at what else he says, buried well below the lede:Hokahey wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:41 pmHype wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 7:45 pmYes, so, suppose the death rate is very low. Unlike many other non-novel viruses / diseases, we don't have a treatment that actually works for this one. If you have an underlying condition, and you end up with pneumonia, and there is no ventilator for you, you're dead. That's not like anything we've ever faced before. New York is a shit-show right now.
Cuomo seems to be walking back a bit just how much of a shit show things really are.
Cuomo: Not sure if closing all businesses, keeping everyone home was 'the best public health strategy'
https://www.foxnews.com/us/cuomo-closin ... h-strategy
That's written as if there's no problem, but only because the FN writer used "assured". The actual content of it is: given the way this spreads, if there are outbreaks in hospitals, nursing homes, etc., and too many more people need hospitalization, they will run out.Addressing reports that New York hospitals were running out of personal protective equipment, Cuomo assured that hospitals had enough in stock for the immediate need, but not beyond. “We have enough PPE in stock for the immediate need, not past it, but for the immediate need.” He added that he was dealing with hospitals who have a need for PPE “today and tomorrow, that’s the kind of time frame we’re dealing with.”
Again, look more carefully:
Fox calls this "encouraging", but it's literally Cuomo saying that the best we can hope for right now is to *slow* the *increase* in numbers. I.e., slow acceleration, not decelerate, not go down. Go up. But slower. Yes. That is the best hope. And the hope is that infrastructure withstands that and we don't run out of equipment that can save lives. And we don't end up with shortages of nurses and doctors because they've all contracted the damn virus.Cuomo said that while the number of cases continued to go up each day, the slower rate in growth was encouraging. “'We're looking for a reduction in the rate of increase as opposed to the number of absolute cases, that's what we're looking for.”