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New York City deaths top 1,000 with worst to come

by Associated Press
| April 1, 2020 9:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — New York authorities rushed to mobilize an army of medical volunteers Wednesday as the statewide death toll from the coronavirus surged past 1,900 and the wail of ambulances in the otherwise eerily quiet streets of the big city became the heartbreaking soundtrack of the crisis.

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