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Months ago, New York State required all hospitals to produce "surge plans" in case the load of Covid-19 patients became too large to manage. Those plans didn't need to be activated here last spring, but the current rise in hospital caseloads is forcing hospital executives to think about them again. With virus hospitalizations in the region 10 times higher than two months ago, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo sounded the alarm Monday by ordering all hospitals to increase their bed capacity by 25%. Eight months ago, all hospitals were ordered to file contingency plans for a 50% increase in capacity, with t...

Hospital officials said the project wasn’t feasible in the current environment.

Sara murray is outside that court. and sara, he asked the judge for leniency. what are you expecting? >> reporter: that's right. he did ask the judge for lean generals ci lean general lean leniency saying that he was in over his heard. prosecutors want to see papadopoulous spend time in jail. they basically say he was only cooperative once confronted with evidence that he was lying, that he hindered various efforts. and of course all of this plays out against a political backdrop ever as soon as george papadopoulous pleaded guilty, the white house has cast this man as a layer, they said he was...