Mixed in with Governor Andrew Cuomo's daily and increasingly dire warnings of the impact of the pandemic on New York's strained public health system has been a message to other states: You could very well be the next part of the country to face the coronavirus.

New York has the most coronavirus cases in the U.S., with New York City leading the way followed by suburban counties in the Hudson Valley and on Long Island.

But a confirmed case of the virus is now in all 62 New York counties, including rural areas where population density is no where close to what it is in the metropolitan region.

"New York is really a microcosm for the rest of the nation," Cuomo said on Thursday in his daily briefing.

Later in the day, on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, Cuomo went further: New York's "apex" of cases and hospitalizations could come sooner than the rest of the United States, but every region will see a dramatic rise in cases.

And that only bolsters the case for having a plan that will distribute ventilators to New York first, and then rest of the nation.

"New York is going to have one apex. Detroit will have another. New Orleans will have another. Texas will have another. Los Angeles will have another," Cuomo said. "Why don't we devise a national strategy that moves with that rolling apex, if you will? I need roughly 30,000 ventilators, which I can't get, but I only need 30,000 ventilators for two or three weeks at the top of my curve."

Cuomo has said he would personally deliver the equipment to the other states, as well as send health care workers, once New York is cleared.