Some were allegedly found with their hands tied and stripped of their clothes, spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said
"We're finding that 28 per cent of the submitted specimens are positive from that area where it's less than 8 per cent in the rest of the country", Birx said.
Birx called on New Yorkers in the Covid-19 hotspots to "absolutely social distance and self isolate".
New York has become the US epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, with 99 deaths on Monday, March 23. The US now has nearly one third of global deaths. The Johns Hopkins Hospital tracker puts the US death toll at above 530.
Birx said many of the alarmist projections are based on a situation where preventive social distancing is not in place.
"That's what would happen if we did nothing at all", she explained.
At the same briefing, US president Donald Trump confirmed that New York will begin treating some patients with a combination of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin. Last week, Trump touted anti-malarial drug Hydroxychloroquine as a gamechanger.
Some were allegedly found with their hands tied and stripped of their clothes, spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said
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