Home of the U.S. Open to be converted to a field hospital

NEW YORK — The tennis complicated that hosts the U.S. Open will by subsequent week turn out to be a subject hospital to treat coronavirus sufferers — part of a race to construct more beds and relieve New York City's health care amenities, the place a prime official stated all indicators are “flashing pink.”

The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Middle in Queens will host a 350-bed hospital, Mayor Invoice de Blasio stated in a go to to the location Tuesday — and unlike other emergency hospitals opened in the town to date, will probably be capable of deal with sufferers affected by Covid-19.

The variety of coronavirus instances in New York City surpassed 40,000 on Tuesday — a quarter of the instances in the complete country — and 932 New Yorkers have died.

“We all know we are racing towards time proper now,” de Blasio stated.

The town has begun to obtain extra help from the federal government, but continues to be far in need of the gear it needs. The mayor appealed for oral surgeons, plastic surgeons, and veterinarians to show over their ventilators to the town.

“We'd like it now. It should not be sitting there doing nothing. This can be a struggle effort. Everyone needs to contribute,” de Blasio stated.

The tennis facility will take patients from Elmhurst Hospital, which has been overwhelmed with gravely ailing coronavirus patients. Nevertheless it will be unable to treat individuals sick enough to be within the ICU.

“The indications I’m taking a look at are flashing pink,” stated Dr. Eric Wei, vice chairman of NYC Health + Hospitals, which runs Elmhurst and 10 other public hospitals. “I’ve practiced emergency drugs for a long time, and I’m seeing issues I might never have imagined.”

A number of city hospitals are so full that sufferers are ready in the emergency room because there are not any beds obtainable for them as soon as they’re admitted, he stated.

Elmhurst, which has intubated 42 sufferers up to now 4 days, is now offloading sufferers with different illnesses to focus virtually solely on coronavirus. Trauma sufferers are being moved as quickly as they are stabilized. Apart from Elmhurst, Queens hospital, Kings County, Coney Island, and Woodhull hospitals in Brooklyn, and Jacobi and Lincoln hospitals in the Bronx are all surging with Covid-19 patients.

If the crisis has passed, officers nonetheless hope that the U.S. Open could be played at the tennis middle in late August.

“It seems so trivial,” stated complicated operations director Daniel Zausner. “Hopefully, we’ll be able 5 months from at this time to see gamers truly training on the courts right behind us.”

New York City has additionally begun to close down playgrounds to stop crowding that would spread the illness. De Blasio has resisted calls to close all playgrounds, however stated Tuesday he has ordered 10 to be padlocked because they have been repeatedly found to be too crowded.

“They are going to be shut down, they will be locked, there shall be signs put up, there shall be enforcement,” de Blasio stated.

The Jacob Javits and Raoul Wallenberg playgrounds in Manhattan, Watson Gleason in the Bronx, Middleton, Brighton, and two playgrounds at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, Mauro in Queens, and two at Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island might be closed until additional notice.

Last week, the town took down 80 basketball hoops at courts the place individuals have been violating social distancing rules.

De Blasio also announced that the town will postpone a tax lien sale, the place it has deliberate to unload property for unpaid property taxes or water bills. It was scheduled for Might however can be pushed a minimum of till August.

“We perceive proper now individuals’s lives have been turned the wrong way up they usually don’t have money to pay bills,” de Blasio stated.

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