Find Brendan J. Lyons of Albany Times Union's articles, email address, contact information, Twitter and more He became editor of the investigations team in 2013 and joined the Capitol Bureau in 2017. You can reach him at Read bios and see recent headlines for our journalists, bloggers, and photographers. Times Union editor Brendan Lyons moderates a conversation between NXIVM whistleblower Toni Natalie and cult expert Rick Ross. It was one of several field hospitals that Cuomo's administration had scrambled to assemble in April that saw little use.Azzopardi, the governor's spokesman, said it was those field hospitals and potentially many more that were never built that had prompted the state to purchase more than 1,000 X-ray machines. You can reach him at New York spent millions on medical equipment that was never usedFILE - In this April 20, 2020, file photo a ventilator waits to be used for a COVID-19 patient going into cardiac arrest at St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers, N.Y. An analysis of federal contracting data by The Associated Press shows the Department of Health and Human Services is now on track to exceed 100,000 new ventilators by around July 13, about a week later than the 100-day deadline Trump first gave on March 27. Internal investigation into task force’s troopers failed to result in adequate discipline, IG says Albany Times Union - 2020-08-07 - FRONT PAGE - By amanda fries and Brendan J. lyons. The new law will take effect on Nov.
"Cuomo ridiculously wanted '40 thousand Ventilators.' Lyons joined the Times Union in 1998 as a crime reporter before being assigned to the investigations team. "As we now know, New Yorkers crushed the curve of the virus and, thankfully, we never had to build the hospitals. "He added "for context" that the number of people hospitalized in New York for COVID-19 symptoms only reached a little more than 18,0o0 at the height of the pandemic here, and that the state "never ran out of ventilators.
"Cuomo, who countered that the federal stockpile had just 10,000 ventilators, insisted that his estimates were based on scientific projections offered by federal and other medical experts and, if they were wrong, Trump should blame them.The president's remark about New York's hospital beds referred, in part, to a 4,000-bed field hospital the federal government swiftly built at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, which never had more than 10 percent capacity and on most days was virtually empty. News.
... We built you thousands of hospital beds that you didn't need or use, gave large numbers of ventilators that you should have had, and helped you with testing that you should be doing.
Many states sent ventilators and workers to New York as its cases soared.“New York was hit the hardest and had to contend with a worldwide shortage of protective equipment, but when we needed it the most 30,000 front-line workers from other states stepped up and volunteered to help us through one of our darkest moments," he said.
But those estimates apparently did not factor in the reduction of infection rates due to economic shutdowns, social distancing mandates and the wearing of masks by millions of people.The president retorted that New York would not need the number of hospital beds and ventilators that Cuomo had called for, and he also criticized the state for failing to keep an adequate stockpile of ventilators.
"We have been scrambling with ventilators.