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Global cases: More than 466,000
Global deaths: At least 21,000
US cases: At least 65,100
US deaths: At least 900
The top surgeon of a major New York City hospital dealing with a flood of hundreds of patients infected with the coronavirus rallied his staff with a letter that compared the pandemic to a typhoon, and urged them to stand strong in its face.
“A forest of bamboo bends to the ground in a typhoon but rarely breaks,” wrote Dr. Craig Smith, surgeon in chief at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in upper Manhattan.
“We are that forest and we must not break,” Smith wrote. “By the people, for the people.”
Hospitals in New York City now have more than 2,800 patients with the coronavirus, straining their existing capacity. —Dan Mangan