Rachel Bartlett (@RachelBartlett)

🔹 another 200 city residents are now dying at home each day, compared to 20 to 25 such deaths before the pandemic For comparison, before the pandemic, 160 people died in NYC of all causes every day. 🔸 testing protocols have generally excluded victims who are not hospitalized 🔸 FDNY confirm a staggering rise in deaths occurring at the scene 🔸 Mar 20 - Apr 5: 2,192 deaths at home, or 130 a day, a 400% increase from the same time period last year 🔸 in 2019, there were just 453 cardiac arrest calls where a patient died https://gothamist.com/news/surge-number-new-yorkers-dying-home-officials-suspect-undercount-covid-19-related-deaths There's nothing to see at the ERs because people are dying at home.