New York Governor Andrew Cuomo compared the devastating toll the coronavirus pandemic has had on his state to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, which was “supposed to be the darkest day in New York for a generation.” Terror attacks that day killed 2,753 people in New York City.
“9/11 was so devastating, so tragic, and then in many ways we lose so many more New Yorkers to this silent killer,” he said, referring to COVID-19. “There was no explosion. But it was a silent explosion that just ripples through society with the same randomness, the same evil, that we saw on 9/11.”
He said New York has again recorded its deadliest day yet in the pandemic – 799 people lost their lives to the virus on Wednesday, which brings the total death toll in the state to more than 7,000.
“We’ve lost over 7,000 lives to this crisis. That is so shocking and painful and breathtaking, I can’t– I don’t even have the words for it.”
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