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Nearly 90 percent of coronavirus patients placed on ventilators between March 1 and April 4 at hospitals within Northwell Health, New York's largest health system, were reported to have died, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).Among those who were on ventilators, the mortality rate of those…

Preliminary data shows about 13.9 percent of the population of New York state — about 2.7 million people — have at some point been infected with the coronavirus.About 3,000 people were randomly tested at grocery stores and other public locations to allow officials to get a broader sense of how widely the virus has spread in…

A new poll shows that nearly three-quarters of voters support transitioning the 2020 presidential election entirely to mail-in ballots, despite significant criticism from President Donald Trump and other Republicans.The survey conducted by Harvard and Harris Insights and Analytics found that 72 percent of respondents backed conducting the presidential election entirely by mail, while just 28…

April 19, 2020 | 10:10am | Updated April 19, 2020 | 2:47pm Nearly 60% of Americans say they’re more concerned that loosening stay-at-home measures will cause further spread of the coronavirus than they are about what impact restrictions might have on the US economy, according to a new poll. The NBC News/WSJ poll released Sunday…

WASHINGTON — Nearly 60 percent of American voters say they are more concerned that a relaxation of stay-at-home restrictions would lead to more COVID-19 deaths than they are that those restrictions will hurt the U.S. economy, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.But while strong majorities of Democrats and independents are more…