BREAKING: Italy's death toll from coronavirus continues to soar: 793 deaths in 24 hours. Total deaths: 4,825 Total cases overall: 53,578
NYC: Only test those that are hospitalized as protective equipment 'extremely limited'
New York City's hospitals are sounding the alarm about a critical lack of Personal Protective Equipment, PPE, and are limiting tests of COVID-19 to those that are hospitalized in the"epicenter" of the coronavirus outbreak and to stop testing outpatients, documents obtained by NBC News show. NBC News has reviewed a letter from NYU Medical Langone Hospital which says that the capacity to test for COVID-19 at labs in the region remains"critically limited."The letter says that as of Friday NYU has told staff that the testing of COVID-19 was to be restricted to hospitalized patients only. In part, the letter says, because supplies of test swabs and other necessary testing components remains low.
NYU's directives come on the heals of a sweeping memorandum from the New York City Department of Health. The directive says,"there is a national shortage of personal protective equipment , collection swabs, and viral transport media supplies and it is critical that laboratory testing be prioritized for hospitalized patients."
The memo says that applies to testing first responders who aren't hospitalized either and says,"outpatient testing must not be encouraged, promoted or advertised."The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Switzerland has jumped from 2,650 to 6,113 in the last 72 hours,Swiss officials said the number of coronavirus went up 25 percent in just 24 hours, with hospitals in
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