May 7, 2020 / By Nick Givas | Fox News
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday that 66 percent of the state’s new coronavirus patients were sheltering in place at home before seeking medical attention in hospitals, calling the statistic “shocking.”
“If you notice, 18 percent of the people came from nursing homes, less than 1 percent came from jail or prison, 2 percent came from the homeless population, 2 percent from other congregate facilities — but 66 percent of the people were at home, which is shocking to us,” Cuomo said during his daily COVID-19 briefing.
“[They’re] disproportionately older — but by the way, older starts at 51 years old,” he continued. “But if older starts at 51 years old, then that’s a large number of us old folks in this state, in this country.”
The data was taken from a three-day survey of 113 New York hospitals, covering more than 1,200 patients, according to Cuomo.
