well John there is good news and bad
news out of New York today the good news
is that the number of people who've died
today is relatively flat compared to the
numbers of those who lost their lives
yesterday the bad news though John is
that still 599 people have died in New
York State alone today that is still an
extremely high number and brings the
total to New York for nearly 5,000
people that is why today as you said
there that the mayor of New York has
been forced to admit that he has
contingency plans in place to bury
people in mass graves in city parks once
those refrigerated white lorries we've
seen have started to run out which they
are beginning to run out the details of
that were disclosed by the chairman of
New York City Council's
Health Committee who said today that the
trenches would be dung dug in parks for
ten coffins at a time in long rows he
didn't say which parks but he said on
Twitter it will be done in a dignified
orderly in temporary manner he said but
he warned it will be tough for New
Yorkers to take meanwhile the New York
Governor Andrew Cuomo today said that he
didn't know anything about those plans
he was expressing some kind of
hopefulness that the numbers appear to
be stabilizing but he also stressed that
New York hospitals were operating at
maximum capacity let's see what he had
to say
this is a hospital system where we have
our foot to the floor and the engine is
at redline and you can't go any faster
and by the way you can't stay at Red
Line for any period of time because the
system will blow and that's where we are
we are at Red Line people can't work any
harder the staff can't work any harder
and staying at this level is problematic
the governor there also lashing out
residents of New York City who he said
appeared over the weekend in the
sunshine to be violating those stay at
home orders he said it was wholly
and he's doubled the size of the fines
from $500 to $1,000 for those caught
wandering around the city without a
legitimate reason to be out John
Siobhan Kennedy in Washington now as New
York City hospitals become overwhelmed
with the curve in 19 patients overflow
tents have been appearing all over the
city we've been speaking to one doctor
on the front line who could show us
inside hello everyone my name is Kelvin
Sun I am a per diem and emergent
ologists laughs emergency physician the
majority of the hospital systems much
like a mercenary or a gun for hire so
we're fighting a war on all fronts now
not only was I called in last minute to
see patients and compress their
emergency room doing what I do but also
putting together telemedicine and
setting up tents in planning mass
casualty scenarios so this is the inside
one of many countless field tents that's
being set up outside of our hospitals
all around New York currently being
overwhelmed by the staggering patient
volume that's occurring because of the
Cova 19
pandemic only working in the covet 19
only built-in outside of random Hospital
New York as if one tent wasn't enough
now we have to finished another shift
taking care of countless patients I
think I hit 65 today in the Copa 19 only
tent and pretty exhausted hospitals that
I've been working in there just getting
fuller and fuller they're converting
regular medical floors into ICU
overflows I know some hospitals only
have one ventilator left I'm still
fighting and meantime I'm just going to
enjoy this view on this
and way back home because there's a few
other things in life right now that I
can appreciate and not take for granted
and dr. Calvin Sun joins us now live
from New York dr. Sun what does it feel
like actually on the ground as a doctor
right now
right now relative right it's almost
worse than the day before in the moment
it's the last three to four weeks we
just seem think things get recive ly
more dire people coming in sicker and
younger with presentations that we never
expected from Kovan 19 with papers to
back that up such as strokes and clots
heart attacks all associated with Cova
19 infections and we don't know what to
believe in anymore those videos that you
saw we're all taken in the last week but
just like anything in New York where we
meet up and rise to the occasion right
now right now it's like the calm before
the storm they're all saying that this
is gonna be the worst week ever but it
felt like every week has been the worst
week ever patient volume is patient
critically ill hospitals being full
every day has been our apex high I hope
that we overreacted I hope that next
week you do a news story and you say
that we you know totally blew it out of
proportion we have too many ventilators
because I rather have that then too few
ventilators and having to ration medical
care in the United States of America in
2020 we relished your personal
protection kit it really looked
absolutely state-of-the-art but do other
doctors in New York really have the same
as you know so I've been lucky to rely
on personal private donations by friends
and family members and lucky is even the
hiring of Ward I feel guilty using it
shouldn't have come down to that well
though as grateful as I am to having our
support network I can't speak on behalf
are the same for my colleagues we may
not have that support network who may
not have those personal private
donations who are only will only have
access to what their emergency room
offers as a per diem doctor I also have
asked the different emergency rooms and
different things that they have a lot of
mecan't what if what if I'm a full-time
doctor like most doctors out there where
I lack whatever that emergency room
lacks I have nothing else so but it
doesn't it shouldn't have come down to
this where we were having this issue
even before this pandemic