Timeline
Key COVID-19 response dates during the pandemic crisis of 2020.
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March 2020
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March 1
First confirmed case of COVID-19 in New York City
- March 2
- March 3
- March 4
- March 5
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March 6
NYC Health + Hospitals meets with NYC Medical Reserve Corps to request volunteers
- March 7
- March 8
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March 9
New visitor policy issued to increase safety and reduce transmission
- March 10
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March 11
First reported COVID-19 death in New York City
- March 12
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March 13
NYC Health + Hospitals treats first confirmed COVID-19 patient
- March 14
- March 15
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March 16
All NYC Health + Hospitals clinic visits converted to televists.
- March 17
- March 18
- March 19
- March 20
- March 15
- March 21
- March 22
- March 23
- March 24
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March 25
Crisis intensifies as 13 patients pass away in 24 hours at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst
- March 26
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March 27
NYC Health + Hospitals opens new 350-bed hospital, Roosevelt Island Medical Center to handle increasing number of COVID-19 patients.
- March 28
- March 29
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March 30
USNS Comfort arrives in New York City
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March 31
Temporary hospital opens at Billie Jean Tennis Center to relieve need at Elmhurst
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April 2020
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April 1
NYC Health + Hospitals recruits 5,000 nurses and 1,500 other health care staff from across the country to help with mounting surge of COVID-19 patients.
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April 2
NYC Health + Hospitals outlines plan to triple ICU capacity to 3,000 beds
- April 3
- April 4
- April 5
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April 6
Over 700 federal health care workers from Dept. of Defense deployed to public hospitals to help fight COVID-19.
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April 7
New York City hits a tragic COVID-19 milestone, reporting 590 deaths in New York City in one day.
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April 8
NYC Health Dept. releases report showing coronavirus is killing black and Latino New Yorkers at twice the rate of white people.
- April 9
- April 10
- April 11
- April 12
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April 13
NYC Health + Hospitals launches text-based monitoring program for discharged patients
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April 14
Bloomberg Philanthropies donates $6 million for World Central Kitchen to provide daily meals to more than 30,000 health care workers on the frontlines of COVID-19.
- April 15
- April 16
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April 17
City announces COVID-19 testing in hardest-hit communities.
- April 18
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April 19
New York Times Magazine publishes photo essay on NYC Health + Hospitals entitled: "Epicenter-Inside New York City's hospitals as they face the pandemic."
- April 20
- April 21
- April 22
- April 23
- April 24
- April 25
- April 26
- April 27
- April 28
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April 29
City partners with Dept. of Defense to Address trauma in health care workers.
- April 30
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May 2020
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May 1
NYC Health + Hospitals hits milestone of 5,000 patients discharged
- May 2
- May 3
- May 4
- May 5
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May 6
NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx marks completion of 20 new ICU beds to manage surge of COVID-19 patients
- May 7
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May 8
Mayor announces new Test & Trace Corps
- May 9
- May 10
- May 11
- May 12
- May 13
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May 14
Mayor says all New Yorkers should get tested for COVID-19
- May 15
- May 16
- May 17
- May 18
- May 19
- May 20
- May 21
- May 22
- May 23
- May 24
- May 25
- May 26
- May 27
- May 28
- May 29
- May 30
- May 31
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June 2020
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June 1
Launch of NYC Test & Trace Corps