66% of NYS coronavirus hospitalizations are people staying at home

• A study of hospitals last week found that of 1,000 patients, 66 percent were people staying at home
• 73% of the new hospitalizations were people aged 51 and over and 96% had underlying health conditions
• Most were in Manhattan – 21% – but 18% of the new hospitalizations were in Long Island
• In New York City, 90% of those who answered said they had not been taking public transport 
• Cuomo said it showed that the new infections were down to ‘personal behavior’ like not wearing masks or not hand washing enough 
• It prompts the question of whether lockdown even works or is necessary 
• Deaths, hospitalizations and intubations are all down but the state remains in lockdown until May 15 
• Cuomo said he is ‘vindicated’ by the states that are seeing numbers continue to rise throughout reopening 
• There are now 19,877 deaths in New York state and more than 321,000 cases of the virus 
• Across America, there have been more than 1million cases and 72,000 deaths
• Recent data shows that while New York’s numbers are decreasing, the rest of America’s are on the rise  

The majority of people who are still being hospitalized with the coronavirus across the state of New York are staying at home and are not essential workers, new data has revealed, prompting the questions of whether or not lockdown even works or for how much longer it will be necessary.

In a study of some 1,000 new patients admitted to New York hospitals over the last week, 66 percent were staying at home and 18 percent had come from nursing homes, meaning they either became infected by going out to get groceries or other essential items, or from seeing people outside of work.

Gov. Cuomo said they were clearly becoming infected as a result of personal behavior, something that can’t be controlled by his lock-down.

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