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. 2020 Jun;115(6):801-804.
doi: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000000636.

Preparation in the Big Apple: New York City, a New Epicenter of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Seth A Gross  1 , David H Robbins  2 , David A Greenwald  3 , Felice H Schnoll-Sussman  4 , Mark B Pochapin  1
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Preparation in the Big Apple: New York City, a New Epicenter of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Seth A Gross et al. Am J Gastroenterol. 2020 Jun.
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Conflict of interest statement

Guarantor of the article: Seth A. Gross, MD.

Specific author contributions: All authors contributed equally to the article.

Financial support: None to report.

Potential competing interests: None to report.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
The current and needed regular and ICU beds for New York State. The combined total beds currently in NY State is 53,000, but an additional 57,000 beds are needed. The current ICU bed level is 3,000, but an additional 18,000 beds are needed (ref. [7]). *Source for needed beds from press conference of Governor Andrew Cuomo on March 23, 2020. ICU, intensive care unit.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Timeline of arrival of COVID-19 from China to New York City, NY.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Trajectory of COVID-19 disease by country. Reprinted with permission of Statista, under a Creative Common license.
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