Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling on President Donald Trump to approve the construction of 4,000 additional hospital beds across the city.
The governor said he wants to build temporary hospitals ahead of the apex of Covid-19 patients crushing the hospitals, expected to take place within three weeks.
“I want to have one in every borough,” Cuomo said at Friday’s press conference at the Javits Center in Manhattan.
He added that he wants to ensure that “everyone equally is being helped and is being protected.”