New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Andrew Cuomo44 percent of high earners have considered leaving New York City: poll Media's anti-Trump coronavirus spin has real consequences In defense of Trump's efforts to quell pandemic panic MORE (D) said Thursday that his state now has 92,381 confirmed coronavirus cases, with infected residents in every county.

Cuomo said at his daily press briefing that the state is now testing more people per capita than China or South Korea. He also noted that while New York City continues to lead the state in the number cases, reports from Westchester County, which has 11,567 cases, and Nassau County, with 10,587, were “troubling," given the city’s larger size and population.

“It is false comfort to say, ‘Well, we’re a rural community, we don’t have the density of New York City,’” Cuomo said.

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“Upstate New York is a rural community and you see that it’s not just urban areas,” he said, calling the state’s ratio of urban to rural states a “microcosm” of the nation as a whole and suggesting that the state’s experience would be “illustrative” of the pandemic nationwide.

Cuomo said that 13,383 people are currently hospitalized in the state, including 1,157 in the last day. He added, however, that 7,434 patients have been discharged, including 1,292 in the past 24 hours.

Statewide deaths are up to 2,373, he said.

Cuomo also said that while intubations appear to be plateauing, “the statisticians tell me that’s an optimistic view.”

The peak of the outbreak, the governor said, could be anywhere from seven to 31 days away, depending on the extent of social distancing.

"We believe it is on the shorter end of the range,” he said, adding that between 70,000 and 110,000 hospital beds would be needed at the apex.

With regard to mortality, Cuomo said, a recent model cited by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci Anthony FauciTrump disputes CDC director on vaccine timing, says 'he made a mistake' Trump health officials grilled over reports of politics in COVID-19 response Biden says to trust scientists on COVID-19 vaccine, not Trump MORE projecting about 100,000 U.S. deaths from the pandemic indicated about 16,000 would be in New York.