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'A bullet train': Virus peak may come soon, swamp hospitals

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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Gov. Andrew Cuomo sounded his most dire warning yet about the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday, saying the infection rate in New York is accelerating and the state could be as close as two weeks away from a crisis that sees 40,000 people in intensive care.

Such a surge would overwhelm hospitals, which now have just 3,000 intensive care unit beds statewide. The rate of new infections, Cuomo said, is doubling about every three days.

While officials once projected the peak in New York would come in early May, they now say it could come in two to three weeks. “We are not slowing it.

And it is accelerating on its own,” he said during a briefing at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. “One of the forecasters said to me we were

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