As of April 2, the City had lost 1,562 New Yorkers from the virus. The Bronx still has the third highest number of positive cases per borough after Queens and Brooklyn, with 9,343 recorded cases, representing 19 percent of the City’s total case numbers. Meanwhile the citywide count of positive cases stood at 49,707 as of April 2, according to the City’s health department. 

 

 

“California is ticking up, Michigan is ticking up, Florida is even ticking up, Michigan but nowhere is anywhere near where we are – 83,000,” the governor said. 

 

The first chart shows the trajectory of statewide positive cases for the month of March according to NYS Department of Health while the second shows the citywide positive cases for the same period, according to the City’s health department.

 

The first map shows the dispersion of positive case numbers across the City as of March 31 based on patient address by ZIP code, while the second shows the percentage of patients who had tested positive as of March 31 by ZIP code across all city boroughs. 

 

In Norwood’s ZIP code 10467, the positive case numbers fall within a range of between 306 and 947 cases. Meanwhile, of those patients who have been tested in this ZIP code, between 51% and 58% tested positive for the virus. 

 

At a national level, as of 4 p.m. on April 2, the CDC reported total positive cases of 213,144 and 4,513 deaths across the country. The Trump administration made a sobering announcement on March 31 that it is anticipated that between 100,000 and  240,000 Americans could die from the disease over the course of the pandemic based on projected models. 

 

Meanwhile, Cuomo had indicated in recent days that the peak of the pandemic was expected to occur sometime during the first three weeks of April, though this is contingent upon how well the State responds to the crisis in terms of social distancing. As of April 2, of the 92,381 positive cases statewide, 13,383 involved people who were hospitalized for COVID-19, and 3,396 were ICU patients.

 

“I take my job very seriously. I take my responsibility very seriously. I don’t make excuses,” the governor said during the April 2 daily press briefing. “I’m doing everything I can but people are still dying”. While, tragically, 2,408 people have died from the virus so far in New York State, 7,434 patients have been discharged.

 

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