More than 6,000 are dead as NY governor says virus spreading like a 'slow-moving hurricane'

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will sign an executive order allowing the state to redistribute ventilators and medical supplies from institutions that don't need them now to medical facilities in parts of the state that do, he said Friday in a news conference.

The need for ventilators has grown as the number of coronavirus cases climbs, with more than 102,000 cases and 2,935 deaths statewide as of Friday morning, the governor said. Of those deaths, 562 people died in the last 24 hours -- the biggest single-day increase in deaths.

Supplies taken under the governor's order will be returned or those institutions reimbursed, Cuomo said.

"I'm not going to be in a position where people are dying and we have several hundred ventilators in our own state somewhere else," the governor said.

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