NY’s Cuomo: Hospital Figures Suggest Pandemic Curve Is Flattening in State

Flags are flying at half-mast as the sun rises in Manhattan on April 6, 2020, as seen from Weehawken, New Jersey. Kena Betancur/Getty Images

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sounded an optimistic tone about the state’s battle with the CCP virus pandemic on April 6, pointing to downward trends in key hospital metrics as evidence that the state may be “flattening” the statistical curve that’s oft-employed to visualize the effects of the outbreak.

For five straight days, health care facilities in the Empire State have discharged more COVID-19 patients than they have admitted new ones. The daily numbers for patients admitted to intensive care units and those placed on ventilators dropped for the second straight day.