New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo cast the state's coronavirus crisis in grim terms Tuesday with an angry directive to FEMA: "You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die." As CNN explains, Cuomo was blasting the Federal Emergency Management Agency for sending only 400 ventilators. "What are we going to do with 400 ventilators when we need 30,000?" he asked, per NBC New York. (Note: It appears he miscalculated and may have meant 29,600.) It was just one part of what was Cuomo's most dire assessment yet of the virus' spread:
- Cases in New York rose to 25,665 Tuesday, more than half of them in New York City, and the death toll climbed to 189. Those are state figures. Johns Hopkins University puts the numbers at 26,000 and 210, per the AP.