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Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday offered up New York as a “laboratory” for testing of possible coronavirus vaccines, as another 752 residents succumbed to the bug.

“It’s over whenever you have a vaccine,” said Cuomo during an Albany press briefing. He has said such a step may take 12 to 18 months.

“Anything we can do to work with the federal government to get the vaccine done faster, we are all in,” the governor continued. “We want to use New York as a laboratory. We are ready, willing, in any way.”

Cuomo said the state Health Department stands ready to work with the federal Food and Drug Administration — and that New Yorkers would make perfect test subjects.

“Do you need a place to test it in large numbers?” he asked rhetorically of the feds. “Think of New York.”

The governor offered up his constituents as lab rats as the contagion continued to level off in the Empire State, slowly and painfully.

Total hospitalizations continued to stay effectively flat in the 24-hour period ending at midnight Wednesday, dropping slightly from 18,697 to 18,335, despite a day-over-day spike in new hospitalizations of 604.

But another 752 fatalities were documented Tuesday, running the official statewide toll to 11,586, Cuomo said.

That number may be set for a grim, four-digit spike in the coming days, however, as Cuomo announced that the state will soon release figures on probable but officially unconfirmed COVID-19 deaths.

Based on a recommendation by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New York City released those figures for the five boroughs on Tuesday, revealing at once more than 3,700 previously uncounted deaths.