Cuomo: ‘Fears’ of the Virus ‘Overwhelming the Health Care System Has Not Happened’

CUOMO: "But basically, the health care situation has stabilized. The fears of overwhelming the health care system has not happened thanks to the phenomenal work of our front line workers, thanks to all of the additional capacity that the hospital system created, over 50% additional capacity in one month. Just think of that. Thanks to the work that our federal government did — Army Corps of Engineers providing the beds at Javits and 'Comfort.' By the way, Javits, which is 2,500-bed capacity, is the overflow valve — about 800 people have gone through Javits. So, thank you very much. And that was a great service that was done by the federal government in a very short period of time. So, we have that stabilized. People are still getting infected but we have the infection spread down to a manageable number. We have accomplished that."