A frightening picture spread in these hours at several american media.
the Image is taken into a large white container in front of the Elmhurst Hospital in New York city.
But it is not any container.
It is refrigerated, and in the picture you can see a large handful of orange body bags with dead people.
Dead americans, who have lost the fight against coronavirussen.
But the image contains more than the story of the handful of people who are placed in the container.
It is the story of a city in New York, which has been the epicenter of the coronavirussen in the UNITED states.
the Story of the crowded lighuse. The story of the more than 1,000 dead citizens. The story of the hundreds of infected police officers. The story about the scared nurses and doctors.
As an employee of one of New York’s lighuse Saturday said to the Washington Post:
“I have never been in war, but it here feels as though this is the closest I come to it.”
New York is in record time become a gigantic epicenter of coronavirussen, and Monday morning could the authorities then pass on the terrible news that more than 1,000 new yorkers have died of the virus.
Overall, the entire state of 60.000 smittetilfælde, and it has put so much pressure on hospitals to that on a daily basis comes tales from the shook the doctors and nurses.
“We are all afraid. I’m scared. But I will have to package the fear away, for when I put my feet at the hospital, it’s all about the patient. We try to use protective gear, but it is not perfect,” says the doctor dr. Yellow Islam”, for example, to CBS News.
And at the same time tells the doctors also in the details of how the coronavirussen hit anyone and at virtually no time to send people into unconsciousness.
“It goes very quickly – within hours. They go chattering into the hospital, and 12 hours later, they lie in the respirator and fighting for their lives. It is very atypical. We do not see the progression with the other of the diseases that we work with,” says dr. Mangala Narasimham to CBS News.
In the course of the week has the american media brought more stories of overcrowded hospitals in New York, the lack of respirators in the intensive care unit and maternity wards, where pregnant women had to give birth alone, without their partner.
And last, it is the tremendously overburdened Elmhurst Hospital and the refrigerated ligcontainer, which has drawn the headlines.
So many headlines, that even Donald Trump has commented on the horrifying sight.
“I’ve seen it the last week on tv. Body bags everywhere. I have seen them put the containers up, because they do not have space for all the corpses. There are so many of them,” he said on the night of Monday.
But by now you’re probably with one overriding question.
Why is it just New York that has so many more smittetilfælde than the other 49 states?
the State of New York has four times as many cases as the closest state of New Jersey, and then there is a good drop down to the next on the list.
And it is a very good reason to.
New York – in particular the city itself – is struggling namely with a cocktail of circumstances which makes that it makes good sense that the city has been the USA’s major epicenter for coronavirussen.
First and foremost is the population density.
the fact is that New York is the one of the major cities in the UNITED states, where there are clear the most people per. square meters.
There lives more people in less space, but it only becomes ‘serious’, when newyorkerne huddle in buses and metros.
“the Density makes us vulnerable. We are used to people. We are used to cows. We are used to being close together,” has New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, for example, said to CNN.
A second reason is the amount of testing.
In the state New York was found quickly out that the epidemic had hit the city, so in order to contain the virus put you time in the test device.
That meant, for example, that the state on Thursday had been responsible for 25 percent of the country’s all test.
But then, there are also several experts who have the binoculars directed toward the New York age structure of the population, where many senior citizens live together, and the turismetiltrækning, where many international – and potentially infected – persons have visited the city in February and march.
