Site. Gov. Cuomo good morning, good to see you all here in masks, related gear. To my right we have general to my left we, have general raymond shields. These are two gentlemen who i have been through many situations with. We have been through hell and back. And if you have to have two professionals dealing with the situation like this, these are the two situations that you these are the two people you want to be with. I thank both generals for being here today. Im private cuomo but ill be your governor today. I want to thank all the army corps of engineer people who are here today who have done an outstanding job. They came in very quickly in setting up this emergency hospital. Which is going to be badly needed. I want to thank all of the people at the javitt center. This is a great exhibition hall. This is not what they normally do, and they have really stepped up and risen to the occasion. So i want to thank them. Let me take you through some facts today because we have some new facts, changes in circumstances that are not encouraging, and i want to make sure people understand and then we react accordingly. The increase in the number of cases continues unabated. As a matter of fact, the rate of increase has gone up. We have the most sophisticated people you can get doing projections on this. They have been studying projections from china, south korea, italy, places all across this country. And what they are now seeing is that the rate of cases, the rate of new infections, is doubling about every three days. That is a dramatic increase in the rate of infection. And this whole discussion all along has been how fast does the rate of increase spread, and can we slow the rate of increase. We are not slowing it and it is accelerating on its own. One of the forecasters said to me, we were looking at a Freight Train coming across the country. We are now looking at a bullet train because the numbers are going up that quickly. And the most challenging point about the increasing numbers is where the numbers will apex. What is the high point of the numbers . And the apex is the point where we have to be able to manage the capacity. We have projected the apex at about 110,000 hospital beds. Thats the number i have been talking about. The new projection suggests that the number of hospital beds needed could be as high as 140,000 hospital beds. Flatten the curve, flatten the curve we havent flattened the curve, and the curve is actually increasing. That means the number of hospital beds, which is at 53,000 beds, 3,000 i. C. U. Beds, the anticipated need now for the height of the curve is 140,000 hospital beds. And approximately 40,000 intensive care unit beds. Those are troubling and astronomical numbers. As i mentioned are higher numbers than i had previously projected. We are exercising all options as aggressively as we can. That rate of increase, that apex they project at this time could be approximately 14 to 21 days away. Not only do we have a spike in the increase, when you spike the increase in cases, it accelerates the apex to a point where it could be as close as 14 to 21 days. We are exercising all options. We are doing everything to quoteunquote, slow the spread, flatten the curve. We have closed businesses. We have reduced street density. We had an issue in new york city, i spoke to mayor de blasio, and corey johnson, well have a plan that i believe will be in place by noon today. And we have increased testing to the highest level in the United States and the highest per capita level on the globe. No one is testing more than we are testing. So in many ways we have exhausted every option available to us. We have closed all the businesses. We have reduced the street density. And we have increased testing to the highest level in the country. We are also trying all the new drug therapies, the hydroxychloroquine which the president speaks about and is optimistic about. And we hope for optimistic results, also. We are starting that today. The president and the f. D. A. Accelerated that drug coming to new york. The hospitals will start using that drug today. The f. D. A. Also authorized an experimental procedure by the new York State Department of health where we department of health actually takes plasma from people who are infected, who have the antibodies, and will try putting that plasma into a person who is still struggling with the disease hoping that the antibodies make a difference. We are also pursuing many levels of testing which will test peoples blood to see if they have antibodies for the coronavirus which means they may have been infected and resolved and never knew it, but if you had the coronavirus and resolved, you now have an immunity to the coronavirus. For some period of time, most experts suggest a significant amount of time. That would be very important for us to know because these are then Health Care Workers can go back to work, workers who could return back to the private sector. But the inescapable conclusion is that the rate of infection is going up. It is spiking. The apex is higher than we thought. And the apex is sooner than we thought. That is a bad combination of facts. So slow the spread. Well still keep doing everything we can, but it is clear that we must dramatically increase the Hospital Capacity to meet that highest apex. And we have to do it very quickly. Again, the apex could be here in as little as 14 to 21 days. And we are talking about a very significant logistical Operational Movement to increase that number of hospital beds and doing the things you need to do related to the increase in hospital beds. There are three elements that are necessary to increase the Hospital Capacity. First are obviously the availability of the beds. A bed without staff is virtually useless, and a bed and staff without the right equipment is virtually useless. You have to complete all three at the same time. As far as beds, we have told the hospitals, im going to speak to every Hospital Administrator today, hospitals must increase their capacity by 50 . The goal is to ask them to try to increase it by 100 . Remember we have 53,000 beds. We need 140,000 beds. Even if they did increase it by 100 , you would only be at about 100,000 beds, you need 140,000 beds. Emergency hospitals like the 1,000 bed facility being built here will be helpful. The emergency hospitals that we are building at stony brook and the Westchester Convention Center will be helpful. They are nowhere near the number of beds we are going to need. I have no problem using the dormitories all across our state campuses, our community campuses, State University campuses. Im speaking to hotel owners about taking over their hotels. To put patients in. I will turn this state upsidedown to get the number of beds we need. But we need the staff for those beds. We are calling and contacting all retirees in the health care field. We are calling all professionals in the health care field. Whether or not they work in a hospital. They can work in an insurance company, a clinic, or whatever. But we want to get as many staff as we can and backup staff because Health Care Workers will get sick. And this is going to go on for weeks. And you cant ask a person to work for 14 days consecutive or around the clock shifts. So well need a backup reserve staff. And equipment, equipment, equipment. Masks, p. P. E. s, and ventilators. And of those three, the greatest critical need are ventilators. Ventilators, nobody really knows what you are talking about. The people who are going to come in, the people who have acute the people who are going to come in, the people who have acute needs, these are people who have are under respiratory distress. They need a ventilator. The ventilator will make the difference between life and death literally for these people. This is a piece of equipment that in the normal course of business you dont have a need for high levels of ventilators. And our Hospital System has a about 3,000 or 4,000 that has always met the need. This is a dramatic increase in the number of ventilators that you need. We have been working around the clock scouring the globe. We procured about 7,000 ventilators. We need at a minimum an additional 30,000 ventilators. You cannot buy them, can you not a find them. In every state is trying to get them. Other countries are trying to get them. The capacitys limited. They are technical pieces of equipment. They are not manufactured in two days or four days or seven days or 10 days. So this is a critical and desperate need for ventilators. We are going so far as to try an experimental procedure where we split the ventilator. We use one ventilator for two patients. Its difficult to perform. Its experimental. But at this point we have no alternative, so were working on this experimental application. Picture two hospital beds, two people in beds, one ventilator and a people in beds, one ventilator between the two of them, but with two sets of tubes, two sets of pipes going to the two patients. An again, its experimental, but a necessity is the mother of invention and we are working on this as we speak because life is a options and we dont have any other options. There is no other way for us to athere is no other way for us to a get these ventilators. In we have tried everything else. The only way we can obtain these a ventilators is from the federal government, period. And there are two ways the federal government can do it. One is to use the federal defense production act. There is a federal law where the federal government can say to manufacturers, you must produce this product. I understand the federal and governments point that Many Companies have come forward and said we want to help and General Motors and ford and people are willing to get into the ventilator business. It does us no good if they start to create a ventilator in three weeks or four weeks or five weeks. We are looking at an apex of 14 days. If we dont have the ventilators in 14 days, it does us no good. The federal defense procurement and you act can actually help companies because the federal government can say, look, i need i you to go into this business. You to go into this business. Will and i will contract with you today for x number of ventilators. Heres the startup capital you need. Heres the startup capital you need to hire workers who do it around the clock. But i need the ventilators in 14 days. Only the federal government has that power. And not to exercise that power is inexplicable to me. Volunteerism is nice and its a beautiful thing and its nice these companies are coming forward and saying they want to help. That is not going to get us there. And i do not for the life of people understand the reluctance to use the federal defense production act. Also the federal government has 20,000 ventilators or thereabouts in the federal stockpile. Secretary azar runs an agency called h. H. S. , health and human services. I asked the secretary, look at the first word in the title of the agency you run, it is health. Your First Priority is health. You have 20,000 ventilators in the stockpile. Release the ventilators to new york. How can we be in a situation where you can have new yorkers possibly dying because they cant get a ventilator, but a federal agency saying, im going to leave the ventilators in the stockpile. Have we really come to that point . Also, we have to be smarter about the way this is being done. The federal government has to prioritize the resources. Look at where the problems are across this nation. California has 2,800 cases. Washington state, 2,200 cases. Florida, 1,200 cases. Massachusetts about 800 cases. New york is 25,000 cases. New york has 25,000 cases. It has 10 times the problem that california has. 10 times the problem that Washington State has. You prioritize resources and your activity and your actions to where they are needed. And new york, you are looking at a problem that is of a totally different magnitude and dimension. The problem is the volume. Dealing with 2,000 cases is one thing. 2,000 cases we could deal with in this building with the capacity that we are providing. We have 25,000 cases. We need the federal help and we need the federal help now. There is a smart way to do this. Deploy the ventilators around the country as they are needed. Different regions have different curves of the infection. New york is the canary in the coal mine. New york is going first. We have the highest and the fastest rate of infection. What happens to new york is going to wind up happening to california and Washington State and illinois. Its just a matter of time. We are just getting there first. Deal with the issue here. Deploy the resources. Deploy the ventilators here in new york for our apex, and then after the apex passes here, once we are past that critical point, deploy the ventilators to the other parts of the country where they are needed. Im not asking for 20,000 ventilators and they stay in new york and they live in new york and change their residence. As soon as we finish with the ventilators, then you move them to the next part of the country that has the critical problem. And then after that region hits its apex, then you move to the next part of the country that has its critical problems. I will take personal responsibility for transporting the 20,000 ventilators anywhere in this country that they want once we have passed our apex. Dont leave them sitting in a stockpile and say we are going to wait to see how we allocate them across the country. Thats not how this works. They are not simultaneous apexes. They are a curve that is individual to that region. Deploy to that region, address that region, and then move on to the next. And im not only talking about ventilators. We get past the apex, we get over that curve, that curve starts to come down, we get to a level where we can handle it, ill send ventilators, ill send Health Care Workers, ill send our professionals who dealt with it and who know all around the country. And thats how this should be done. You know its going to be on a different calendar. Its going to be a different sequence. Lets help each other. New york, because new york is first. And then after new york and and then after new york and after the curve breaks in new york, lets all rush to whoevers second. And then lets all rush to whoevers third. And lets learn from each other and help each other. I want to make a point on the president s point about the economy and Public Health. I understand what the president is saying. This is unsustainable that we close down the economy and we continue to spend money. There is no doubt about that. No one is going to argue about that. But if you ask the American People to choose between Public Health and the economy, then its no contest. No american is going to say, accelerate the economy at the cost of human life. Because no american is going to say how much a life is worth. Job one has to be save lives. That has to be the priority. And there is a smarter approach to this. We dont have to choose between the two. You can develop a more refined Public Health strategy that is also an economic strategy. What do i mean by that . Our Public Health strategy was a blunt instrument. What we said at a moment of crisis is isolate everyone. Close the schools, close the colleges, send everyone home, isolate everybody in their homes. In truth, that was not the most refined public strategy. Why . Because it wasnt even smart, frankly, to isolate younger people with older people. But at that moment we didnt have the knowledge we needed to act, thats what we did. You can ask us to refine that Public Health strategy. You can start to say look, the lower risk individuals do not need to be quarantined. And they shouldnt be quarantined with an older person who they may be transferring it to. People who are recovered, you test them, you test the antibodies, you find out that they resolved themselves of the virus, and i believe once we get that test, you are going to find hundreds of thousands of people who have had the coronavirus and resolved. Once they are resolved, they can go back to work. Develop that test. Its in testing now. Once they are resolved, let them go back to work. Let the younger people go back to work. Let the recovered people go back to work. Its even better for the older, Vulnerable People who you are trying to protect. And then ramp up the economy with those individuals. So you are refining your Public Health strategy, and at the same time you are restarting your economy. Those two can be consistent if done intelligently. Restart the economy with our younger recovered tested workers. Dont make us choose between a smart Health Strategy and a smart economic strategy. We can do both and we must do both. Its not the economy or Public Health. Its restarting the economy and protecting Public Health. It is both. But, i understand restarting the economy, the crisis today, focus on the crisis at hand. Focus on the looming wave of cases that is about to break in 14 days. That has to be the priority. And that is Hospital Capacity. And that is about providing hospital beds, providing staff, and providing equipment, and providing p. P. E. , and providing ventilators coming back to that number of 30,000 and needing federal action to address it now. If the federal government said today, i would deploy all 20,000 ventilators, it would take us two weeks to get those ventilators into hospitals and to create i. C. U. Beds and to locate the staff. So there is no time to waste. The time to do this is now. Fema is sending us 400 ventilators. It was on the news this morning. They are sending 400 ventilators to new york. 400 ventilators. I need 30,000 ventilators. You want a pat on the back for sending 400 ventilators . What are we going to do with 400 when we need 30,000 ventilators . You are missing the magnitude of the problem and the problem is defined by the magnitude. These are the numbers from today. You can see our testing rate is now over 90,000 people who have been tested. Thats the highest rate of testing in the country and per capita on the globe. We did 12,000 new tests since yesterday. Number of positive cases, state of new york, 25,665. 4,700 new cases of those tested. You see the entire state, county by county, more and more counties are being covered. We have 3,000 people currently who are hospitalized. We have 756 people in i. C. U. Units. The i. C. U. Units are the ventilated units. Thats 23 of the hospitalizations. Thats the problem. As the number of cases go up, the number of people in hospital beds goes up, the number of people who need an i. C. U. Bed and ventilator goes up, and we cannot address that increasing curve. Again, we look at the number of cases in the country. Youll see that new york is an outlier in the number of cases. Its not even close. What is happening in new york is not a new york phenomenon. People in new york dont have a different immune system than other americans. Its not higher in new york because we are new yorkers. Its higher in new york because it started here first, because we have Global Travelers coming here first, because we have more density than most places, but you will see this in cities all across the country. And you will see this in suburban communities all across the country. We are just a test case. We are just a test case. And thats how the nation should look at it. Look at us today. Where we are today, you will be in three weeks or four weeks or five weeks or six weeks. We are your future. And what we do here will chart the course for what we do in your city and in your community. Im not asking you to help new york just to help new york. Im asking you to help new york to help your selves. Lets learn how to do it right and lets learn how to do it right here. And lets learn how to act as one nation and lets learn how to act as one nation here. And we learn the lesson here, we will save lives in your community. I promise you that. We are delivering supplies that we have been able to purchase today. New york city has had a critical problem. I spoke to mayor de blasio. Hes right. Had he a critical problem on p. P. E. , gowns, masks, etc. The equipment we are bringing today will resolve that immediate need. There would be no hospital in the city of new york who will say today their nurses, their doctors cant get equipment. And we are addressing that need not just for new york city but also for long island and westchester. We have acquired everything on the market there is to acquire. We have had a full team purchasing from companies all across this globe, buying everything that can be purchased. And we are bringing that here to distribute to new york city. Long island, westchester because that is the greatest need. This number of supplies will take care of our immediate need. It does not take care of the need Going Forward three, four, five, six weeks. The burn rate on this equipment is very, very high. I cant find any more equipment. Its not a question of money. I dont care what you are willing to pay. You just cant find the equipment now. But this will take care of the immediate need. Dont want our Health Care Workers who are doing gods work, they are doing gods work. Can you imagine the nurses who leave their homes in the morning, who kiss their children goodbye, go to a hospital, put on gowns, deal with people who have the coronavirus, they are thinking all day long oh, my god, i hope i dont get this. Oh, my god, i hope i dont get this and bring this home to my children. You want to talk about extraordinary individuals, extraordinary. Its the nurses and doctors and Health Care Workers. Its the Police Officers who show up every day and go out there and walk into a situation that they dont even know what they are working into. And its the firefighters and its the transportation workers and its the people who are running the Grocery Stores and the pharmacies and providing all those essential services. Most of us are in our home. Hunkered down, worried, they are worried, and they are going out there every day despite their fear. Despite their fear. Overcoming their fear. And not for their family. They are doing it for your family. When you see them on the street. When you see them in a hospital, please, just say thank you. And smile. And say i know what youre doing. What happens all these facts, all these numbers, am i strong in my language visavis the federal government . Yes, i am. But what happens at the end of the day . What does it all mean . Thats what people want to know, what does it all mean . What it all means is what we said it all means the first day this started. The first day i went before the people of new york state and i said im going to tell you the truth. Im going to till the facts. The way i know it. Those facts have not changed. Those facts are not going to change. This is not a new situation. We have watched this through china. There are hundreds of thousands of cases. 80 will selfresolve. Thats why experts say to me tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people have had the virus, didnt know they had it, and resolved. Thats why we have to get that test that shows you had the virus, because you have the antibodies. And you did resolve. Once we do that, thats how you get the economy back to work. Thats how you get the backup Health Care Workers. But 80 will selfresolve. 20 are going to need hospitals. Its not about that. Its about a very small group of people in this population who are the most vulnerable. They are older, they have compromised immune systems, they are h. I. V. Positive or they have emphysema or they have an underlying heart condition or they have bad asthma or they are recovering from cancer those are the people who are going to be vulnerable to the mortality of this disease. And it is only 1 or 2 of the population. But then why all of this . Because its 1 or 2 of the population. But then why all of this . Because its 1 or 2 of the population. Its lives. Its grandmothers and grandfathers and sisters and brothers. You start to see the cases on tv, its a 40yearold woman who recovered from Breast Cancer but had a compromised immune system, and four children at home. Thats what this is about. Its about our vulnerable population. I called the executive order that i passed matildas law, my mother. Its about my mother. Its about my mother. Its about your mother. Its about your loved one. And we will do anything we can to make sure that they are protected. Again, keeping it in perspective, johns hopkins, 387,000 cases studied 16,000 deaths on 387,000. 100,000 recoveries worldwide, 268,000 pending. Last point, it is about the vulnerable. Its not about 95 of us. Its about a few percent who are vulnerable. Thats all this is about. Bring down that anxiety, bring down that fear, bring down that paranoia. Its not about 95 of us. And we are going to get through it. Because we are new york, and because we have dealt with a lot of things, and because we are smart. You have to be smart to make it in new york. And we are resourceful and we are showing how resourceful we are. And because we are united and we when you are united there is nothing you cant do. And because we are new york tough, we are tough, you have to be tough, this place makes you tough, but it makes you tough in a good way. We are going to make it because i love new york and i love new york because new york loves you. New york loves all of you. Black and white and brown and asian and short and tall and gay and straight. New york loves everyone. Thats why i love new york. It always has, it always will. And at the end of the day, my friends, even if it is a long day, and this is a long day, love wins. Always. And it will win again through this virus. Thank you. The preliminary plan, zach, is it will backfill hospitals. Take the situation we are looking at. We need ventilators and i. C. U. Beds, those can only really be created in a hospital. But then we have to move people out of a hospital, where do you put them . This facility, 1,000 beds can backfill from a hospital. This facility also has acute care capacity. But we are not anticipating that we do acute care here. We are anticipating that its backfill for hospital beds. My mothers not expendable. Your mothers not expendable. And our brothers and sisters, they are not expendable. And we are not going to accept a premise that human life is disposable. And we are not going to put a dollar figure on human life. First order of business is save lives. Period. Whatever it costs. Now, i also dont believe its an eitheror. I believe you can have an intelligent, refined Public Health strategy. Talk about risk stratification. You can have people go to work. You can test people and find out that they are resolved from the virus. Let them go back to work. You can have younger people go back to work. You can have an economic startup strategy that is consistent with the Public Health strategy. Its smart. Its complicated. Its sophisticated. But thats what government is supposed to do. That whole concept of develop government policy and program. You can do both but not in a clumsy hamhanded way. Well just sacrifice old people. They are old people anyway. And the old get left behind. What is this some modern darwinian theory of Natural Selection . You cant keep up so the band is going to leave you behind. We are going to move on. And if you cant keep up, then you just fall by the wayside of life. God forbid. You didnt mention President Trump by name. You mentioned others, secretary azar. [indiscernible] telling them not to do this. They said theyve got their own supplies, supply chain stabilization board [indiscernible] with the admiral. Governor cuomo people say, say, people say, people say, politicians say. I look at actions not words. They are doing the supplies, heres my question. Where are they . Where are the ventilators . Where are the gowns . Where are the p. P. E. s . Where are the masks . Where are they if they are doing it . By the way, peter navarro, well, we want to work with companies. Fine, work with companies. What the defense act was about was the country needed materials to go to war. They didnt when we went to war we didnt say, any company out there want to build a battleship . Who wants to build a battleship. Maybe a couple of you guys can get together and build one, maybe you could build us some missiles, maybe you think . Anybody want to build a plane . Well need planes. They are sending planes at us and dropping bombs. Anybody want to do that . Thats not how you did it. The president said its a war. It is a war. Then act like its a war. Its not antibusiness. Nobodys talking about change the governmental philosophy. By the way, the businesses would welcome it. I speak to the businesses. You know what they say . Ill do it. But i need startup capital. I cant turn my factory overnight into a ventilator manufacturing company. I have to buy equipment. I have to find personnel. I have a lot of startup capital. Will you give me the startup capital . Will you give me an order that said if i go through all this you will buy x number of units . Its actually a probusiness mentality. Not an antibusiness mentality. This is a false distinction. We dont want to tell business what to do. Thats our philosophy. We dont want to tell business what to do. You know what business wants . They want to make money. Thats what they want. They want to put people to work. They want to open their factory. Make money. Let them open their factory and make money. Help them do that by ordering the supplies you need. Its a war. Youre right. Say, zach, you are building battleships. Heres your contract, god bless you. Thats what the procurement act was all about. And at the rate they are going, it is not happening. Fema says were sending 400 ventilators. Really . What am i going to do with 400 ventilators when i need 30,000. You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators. [indiscernible] you have to ask the federal government. What do i know . I dont know. Their answer is we dont need to do it because companies are coming forward who want to do it. And by the way, i am sure that is true. Its just, the time line doesnt work. I dont need ventilators in six months. And i dont need ventilators in months. Ths and four california isnt going to need ventilators in six months. It is now. So youre asking a business to produce what is a sophisticated piece of electronic equipment in a ventilator and do it in 14 days. Thats an enormous undertaking. They cant do that on a voluntary basis. If youre using the defense procurement act, then you say, ill pay for it. Ill give you the startup capital. Ill fund you buying the quimet. Ill fund you hiring workers. Otherwise, it doesnt work on a normal business or timetable. And the business is 10. Look, if i go through this, somebody has to buy 40,000 ventilators. You know, a ventilator is on 25,000 a 000, ventilator. Nobodys going to build ventilators unless they know someone is buying 40,000 ventilators. I buy 40,000 ventilators. Caveat, they have to be here in 21 days. And then use them here. We hit the apex first. I will transport them anywhere you want in the country. Im not asking you to give us 40,000 ventilators for the front item. Address the curve here and that curve is going to be going all across the country. You hear what im saying here today . Youre going to have the governor of california several weeks from today saying the same thing. Youre going toer that governor of illinois and the state of washington saying the same thing. Do it right here. Were just the first case. Were just the first template. Do it right here, and then well move the goods. Ill move the professionals. Ill move the doctors and the nurses who can say we can teach you how to do this because we went through it. We saw this in new york. We can actually help one another. Thats smart. Thats right. Thats the american way. [indiscernible] i spoke to the mayor this morning. I spoke to the mayor yesterday. Whatever need he has, we have a way to address it. You have a lot of situations that have developed that no one could have expected, right . These are Uncharted Waters for all of us. But thats why i say resourceful, smart. Were quick on our feet. Were agile. Well figure out how to solve it. Well do it together. [indiscernible] i havent even thought about it, zacch. Last one. [indiscernible] multipart question. There are two different types of facilities here. One is an emergency hospital. 00 separate component, 2 each that could be used for acute care. Theres a second facility if you will, which is 1,000 beds, its lower level of medical care for people who dont need as intense service. But let me ask the general pattis. Do you want to comment on that . What the governor provided was exactly what it is, is the first youre on your mic. The first phase is the 1,000 beds from health and human services. It comes in with a kit. We lay medical professionals over the top of that. We go to phase two, we continue to build out bed capacity so that we can provide a little higher level of care potentially as we move forward, but we have an meet level. Then theres a third phase and we continue to build our beds in the facility to go get the capacity that the governor is getting after which doesnt address the entire number and then the other strategy is to go along with it. We expect in the end to be above 2,000, but the basic number is 1,000 and 1 thoushes. And were working towards being above that number by the time were done dressing it out. [indiscernible] the hospitals will be staffed by federal medical personnel for four 250bed facility. And the medical personnel. [indiscernible] how soon could a test for that coronavirus antibody be used on that . Theyre working on it now. You dont have a hard answer. Theyre working on it now. Its a fairly simple test. Im not a medical its only testing your blood for those antibodies, right . So its a fairly simple test. I dont have an answer but i have an estimate. This all comes back to the same point. The reason ive always said to new yorkers relax is because this is not a major issue for 95, 96, 97 of the population. Its only those Vulnerable People. 1 or 2 of the population. This conversation about the andomy, your question blunt jarring in its bluntness well, if were only talking about 1 or 2 of the population and theyre old and theyre vulnerable and theyre sick anyway, well, then why stop the economy . How much are we paying for this 1 or two . Theyre old. Theyre vulnerable. Theyre going to die anyway. Or stop the train for the 1 2 . Its the same point that ive been saying on 98 of the people will be fine. Dont worry unless youre in that category and take a high level of precaution. But were not willing to sacrifice that 1 or 2 . Were not willing to do that. That is not who we are. Its not what we are. s not what we believe we are going to fight every way we can to save every life that we can. Because thats what, i think, it means to be an american. I know thats what it means to be a new yorker. So im not going to leave any stone unturned, until we can make sure every one is protected. Thats what i was trying to communicate by calling it matildas law, right . Thats why ive given it my mothers name. She didnt want me to give it her name. Shes a little annoyed of me. I wanted to personalize it for people. Yes, its only 1 or 2 . Dont worry. Go live your life. Its only 1 or 2 . But the 1 or 2 is matilda and sally and jane and sarah and your uncle and my uncle. And they are precious. And im not giving up. Am not giving up. [indiscernible] no. Look, if lightning strikes look, i agree first of all, i agree with the president , try everything you can. I agree. He said he had heard good things about that drug combination. So had it. I said send it to me. I will use it first. As soon as you sent it to me, i will use it. He sent it to me. Im using it. Today. Not plastic. If it works, great. Great. But, were talking about two weeks here. It doesnt work, and by the way, even if it does work, youre still going to need the beds for people to be on a ventilator while you give them the drug, even it turns out that it winds up saving their lives. You dont get around needing the hospital beds and needing the ventilators. I have to go to work, guys. Thank you very much. Thank you. [indiscernible] i would have to check exactly what projects theyre doing. I dont know. But if you tell me what projects, i will check. Thank you. Be safe. [indiscernible] the subway . Ridership on the subway is down about 75 . So the trains are operating. D there are many, many fewer people than ever before. Down about 75 in the subways. Its down about 85 on the commuter rail. Thank you. Thank you very much. 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