周四，纽约州州长安德鲁·科莫表示，该州将在六天内耗尽冠状病毒患者的呼吸机。
库莫在周四的新闻发布会上表示:“按照目前的燃烧速度，我们的库存中大约有6天的呼吸机。”。“这意味着如果使用率，需要呼吸机的人来医院的比率。如果这一速度继续下去，我们的库存大约还有6天。”
在新闻发布会上，科莫指出，目前的烧伤率约为每晚350名新患者，现有2200台呼吸机。
科莫的这番话是在纽约冠状病毒病例每天都在增加的时候说的。根据约翰·霍普金斯大学提供的一份追踪报告，有超过92，000例冠状病毒病例，导致呼吸道疾病COVID-19和2，373人死亡。
这位纽约州长补充道，联邦政府最近除了储备之外，还派出了4000多台通风机，但是如果通风机用完了，该州准备采取一些不同的措施。
库莫说:“如果我们遇到真正的呼吸机短缺，我们有非常好的措施可以改变这种状况。”。“首先，我们通过医院知道纽约州所有通风机的位置。如果我们在任何一家医院遇到问题，我们会从北部医院拿走不需要的呼吸机，并把它们运送到纽约南部或确实需要它们的医院。”
库莫接着列举了纽约医院为冠状病毒患者释放更多呼吸机的另外四种方法。这些方法包括取消选择性和非关键性手术，使用无麻醉的“麻醉机呼吸机”，“分离”呼吸机，其中一台机器使用两个不同的导管同时治疗两名患者，以及“使用和转换BiPAP机器”
2020年3月30日，纽约市冠状病毒大流行期间，纽约州州长安德鲁·科莫在雅各布·贾维茨会议中心的新闻发布会上发表讲话
在科莫对呼吸机储备发表评论之前，纽约市市长比尔·白思豪在美国有线电视新闻网上发表了类似的评论国情咨文。
3月29日，德·布拉西奥说:“除了呼吸机之外，我们有足够的供应可以维持一周。”。“我们将很快需要至少几百个额外的通风机。”
在整个冠状病毒大流行期间，科莫和德布拉西奥都呼吁联邦政府帮助向该州提供呼吸机和其他医疗用品。科莫在周四的新闻发布会上表示，联邦政府“非常清楚”纽约的局势，但在科莫的新闻发布会后不久，唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统在推特上谈论了纽约的供应问题。
“与其他州不同，纽约很不幸起步较晚。你应该更加努力。别抱怨了&找出所有这些物资的去向。库莫努力工作，”特朗普在推特上写道。
NEW YORK GOVERNOR CUOMO SAYS STATE HAS ENOUGH VENTILATORS FOR 6 DAYS FOR CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS AT CURRENT RATE OF USE
On Thursday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that the state will run out of ventilators for coronavirus patients in six days.
"At the current burn rate, we have about six days of ventilators in our stockpile," Cuomo said during a Thursday press briefing. "Meaning that if the rate of usage, the rate of people coming into hospitals who need ventilators. If that rate continues, in our stockpile we have about six days."
During the press briefing, Cuomo noted that the current burn rate is about 350 new patients per night and there are 2,200 ventilators in the stockpile.
Cuomo's remarks come at a time when the number of coronavirus cases in New York continues to increase every day. According to a tracker provided by Johns Hopkins University, there are over 92,000 cases of coronavirus, which causes the respiratory disease COVID-19, and 2,373 deaths.
The New York governor added that the federal government recently sent over 4,000 ventilators, on top of their stockpile, but the state is ready to take a number of different measures if they run out of ventilators.
"We have extraordinary measures in place that can make a difference if we run into a real ventilator shortage," Cuomo said. "First, we know where all the ventilators are in the state of New York, by hospital. If we have a problem in any hospital, we are going to take the ventilators that are not needed from the upstate hospitals and transport them to downstate New York or the hospitals that do need them."
Cuomo then went on to list four other additional methods that New York hospitals have been using to free up more ventilators for coronavirus patients. These methods include canceling elective and non-critical surgeries, using "anesthesia machine ventilators" without the anesthesia, "splitting" ventilators where one machine uses two different tubes to treat two patients at once and "using and converting BiPAP machines."
Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at the Jacob Javits Convention Center during the Coronavirus pandemic on March 30, 2020 in New York City
Prior to Cuomo's remarks about the ventilator stockpile, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made similar comments while appearing on CNN's State of the Union.
"We have enough supplies to get to a week from today with the exception of ventilators," de Blasio said on March 29. "We're going to need at least several hundred more ventilators very quickly."
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, both Cuomo and de Blasio have called upon the federal government to help supply ventilators and other medical supplies to the state. During his Thursday press briefing, Cuomo stated the federal government is "very aware" of New York's situation, but shortly after Cuomo's press conference, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to talk about the issue of supplies in New York.
"Unlike other states, New York unfortunately got off to a late start. You should have pushed harder. Stop complaining & find out where all these supplies are going. Cuomo working hard," Trump tweeted.
