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Posted 3/27/20

As New York State completed its first week of shelter-in-place regulations limiting the movements of most residents, there were signs of headway being made in dealing with the coronavirus. 

The rate at which people were being hospitalized with the potentially deadly disease had slowed. The Federal Government had begun getting thousands of ventilators to hospitals here to assist the breathing of those with the more-serious cases. And the Army Corps of Engineers did such a good job of crafting a temporary hospital facility at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in Manhattan that Governor Cuomo March 27 asked that they construct similar ones at designated sites in the other four boroughs.

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