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Workers in protective suits wait for people to be tested for Coronavirus (COVID-19) as they arrive by car at the state's first drive-through COVID-19 Mobile Testing Center at Glen Island Park in New Rochelle, N.Y., March 13, 2020. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images
New York public health officials believe the peak of coronavirus cases in the state will happen in 45 days, with as many as 110,000 patients needing hospital beds and 37,200 requiring beds in intensive care units (ICU) in hospitals.
Officials made the announcement at a press conference on March 17 while reporting a surge in cases in the state to 1,374, with 432 new cases in the past 24 hours.
