The Legislature Passed a modification the seal. You can see in the middle two words. Excelsior, the state motto, ever upwards, aspirational. We can be better and lift ourselves, excelsior. We added e pluribus unum, which is actually more important today than when we started this process. Out of many, one. It was our Founding Fathers fundamental belief for this nation. Adams spoke to it met, madison spoke to it, jefferson spoke to it. Although they had a lot of different opinions will do in the constitution, one think they agreed on was e pluribus unum. Out of many, one. It was good advice then. It is better advice today. The curve continues to go up. The number of tests has reached a new high. We did over 21,000 tests. Thank you to our great health department. We have over 10,000 cases. 102,000 total tested positive. 14,000 were hospitalized. 3700 icu patients, 8800 patients discharged. That is good news. Unum. Luribus over 25,000 tests, thanks to our great health department. We have over 10,000 new cases. Tested positive, 14,000 hospitalized, 3700 icu patients. 8800 patients discharged and that is good news. , theumber of deaths highest single increase in the number of deaths since we started. Deaths. 2300 to 2900 deaths. New york had this airports that were designated entry zones . This is an international destination, an international hub. We had people coming from across the world. Sooner and at a higher rate than anyone else. , 1400,al hospitalization that is also a new high. Daily icu admissions is down a little bit. But you had more deaths, you have more people coming in to hospitals than any other night. Also more people going out, which is the ebb and flow coming in and out of the hospital system. The hotspots we now track on a nightly basis how many people go into what facility. Inwe can track the increase what is happening. You see an increase in new york certain immunities in new york city than other communities. You also seen increase on long island just something we are concerned about. Long island does not have as elaborate a Health Care System as new york city. We do not have the same amount of resources on long island and we see an increase in the number of cases on long island and that has us very concerned. Supplies, ppe, are in short supply, as they are across the country. We need companies to make the materials it is unbelievable to me that in new york state, in the United States of america, we cannot make these materials. And that we are all shopping china to try to get these materials and we are all competing against each other. These are not complex that heroes. We will work with new york manufacturers. We will finance the transition necessary to make these materials. We talk about them as if they are complicated. N95 mask. It was . 70 before this started. It is now as high as seven dollars. This is all that it is. It is fabric. It is material. The fda has the specifications. And then it is two pieces of elastic cord. It cannot be that we cannot make these. This is a gallon. We call them downs. This is a gallon. A gown. S we call them gowns. There is sophisticated about the manufactured of this garment. Theres nothings vista get about the material. It cannot be the companies in the statery and in cannot transition to make those supplies quickly. Again, i understand if there is a financial burden and we will address that and work with you. Please contact us. Convertedgoing to be into a covert facility. The original plan was to use javits, javits is a state convention center. It was retrofitted by the army corps of engineers to hold 2500 people. The original plan was that it would not take Covid Patients, covid 19 positive patients. It would take nonCovid Patients and it would be an overflow for hospitals. As it turned out, we do not have noncovid people to any great extent in the hospitals. Intotals have now turned effectively icu hospitals for Covid Patients. So we wanted to convert javits from noncovid to covid. It is federally run, the federal agencies were not eager to do that. Fema was not eager to do that. I called the president , i spoke to him about it yesterday morning. That afternoon, yesterday afternoon, the president called me back, said he spoke to the task force and they would grant the request to transition the Javits Center covid only. That is, that adds a 2500 beds so that is a very big deal. And i think the president for doing it. He did it despite the fact that the federal agencies were not eager to do it. And he did it quickly. So i thank him for that. It is a big deal for us. Still havel we the bap challenge of ventilators and we do not have enough. The situation is very simple now. People come in and they are almost all covid people. Ironically, the number of noncovid cases has dropped because so many things are shut down that you do not have the same number of automobile accidents or people getting hit by cars. He did not have the same crime rates so you do not have the same number of trauma cases coming into a hospital. They are covid cases. Many of them go right to the icu, in the icu, you need a ventilator. If you do not have a ventilator, the process stops and we do not have enough ventilators. We are doing everything possible, splitting ventilators, machines, talking to the federal government to do as helpless they can from the federal stockpile. I do not calling on the federal government to help as much as they can from the federal stockpile. That i do not believe the federal stockpile has enough at this point. We are still trying to buy from china and are working with alibaba which has been very helpful to us. To jack ma and mike evans, who is the president. They have been personally gracious and helpful in trying to get us to source material from china. But we are going to have to , redeploy ventilators from across the system. In other words, there are hospitals that have ventilators. There are hospitals that have ppe equipment. There are privatesector companies that have ppe equipment, that they are not using, that we are going to need to redeploy to the places in the hospitals where we need them. I had a conversation with the hospital administrator, yesterday. I understand they dont want to give up their ventilators. Ventilators are expensive pieces of equipment. I understand that, even if they are not using them, they are reluctant to see them go out the door. The theory is if the government gets them, they will never get them back. I understand that. But, i dont have an option. I am not going to get into a situation where we are running out of ventilators. And we could have people dying because there are no ventilators, but there are hospitals in other parts of the state that have ventilators that they are not using. I not going to allow us to go am there. I think it would be holy irresponsible. So im going to sign an executive order that says the state can take ventilators and ppe from institutions that dont need them now and redeploy them to other parts of the state and other hospitals that do need them. Those institutions will either get their ventilator back or they will be reimbursed or paid for their ventilator so they can buy a new ventilator. I cannot do anything more than that. But i am not going to be in a position where people are dying and we have several hundred ventilators in our own state, somewhere else. I apologize for the hardship to those institutions. Ultimately, there is no hardship. If you dont get the ventilator back, i give you my personal word, i will pay you for the ventilator. But i am not going to let people die because we did not redistribute ventilators. The National Guard will be deployed to pick up these ventilators across the state and deploy them to places where we need them. State budget passed last night. 3 00 a. M. , as you know, the state budget was extraordinary. First, it passed a lot of major policy initiatives, that we should all be very proud of. The nations first domestic terrorism law. It improved bail reform. It addressed child vaping, the scourge that is going across this nation. We banned fentanyl. A ban against repeat subway sex offenders. Campaignfinance reform. Paid sick leave. Middleclass tax cuts. Very aggressive airport construction programs and accessible Renewable Energy siting. I understand that we are consumed with the coronavirus situation. We have to be able to walk and chew gum and move forward at the same time. That is why passing the budget and these pieces of legislation are important. These issues are still important. And, child vaping, etc. , surrogacy, these are major issues for people. They passed last night and, congratulations. The budget was difficult because the state has no money. And, how do you do a budget when you cannot forecast revenues and we came up with a similar, novel novel budget that is calibrated to future revenues or losses. So we start with an assumption. What we are saying is, when we see how much revenue the state makes, how fast the economy comes back, what the expenses are, we will calibrate accordingly. We are heavily reliant on the federal aid. Legislation that gets passed. The federal government has passed a couple of pieces of legislation. They are planning to pass another piece of legislation. It is very important that whatever legislation they pass helps state and local governments. When you deprive a State Government, all you are actually achieving is that that State Government has to turn around and not fund the programs that were dependent on that State Government. We fund education. We fund health care. I spoke to Speaker Pelosi today. She is working on the program for the next piece of legislation. She understands fully the need of State Government. She understands fully the need of local government. She understands my position on how new york was shortchanged in the past bill. And she said she is going to do everything she can do to help new york. I have worked with the speaker many times. I have known her for 30 years. I believe her. And her credibility and her competence is unparalleled, in my opinion. So i will be working with the speaker and the rest of the congressional delegation going forward. We need federal assistance. Depending on how much federal assistance we get, we will have get that calibration of the budget going forward. Coronavirus response in general. There is a lot of conversations about how we should respond to this governmentally or from an intergovernmental perspective. People want to say this is a states rights question versus federal interference. Who should decide what is done on a state level . There is no governor who is arguing that their states rights are being trampled. Right . It is not a states rights issue. No one is standing up saying the federal government is trampling my rights. I have said that on other occasions. But no governor, democrat or republican, is saying that here. Every state is saying the same thing. I need help, i need assistance. So i dont consider this a situation where the federal government is interfering with the states rights. This is a situation that is, by definition, a National Disaster emergency situation, where the states need and welcome the federal assistance. The only operational model that i see that could potentially work here at this stage, where we are today with the realities we are facing, where no state can get the supplies they need, no state can get the ppe they need. No state can get the ventilators they need, the market has literally collapsed. The only operational model that i see is you have curves, you we have been talking about our curve you have curves in different parts of the country. Those curves occur at different times. It depends on when the outbreak started in that region. How quickly it spread. So you have different curves in different parts of the country, occurring at different times. I think the only practical solution at this point is focus on the emergency that is in front of you. Focus on the emergency that is at the place and time that is in front of you. And then, redeploy to the next situation. So new york is the tip of the spear, so to speak. We have the high numbers. We have the first major encounter. Deploy resources to new york. We will hit that curve. We will be at the top of the curve, 17 days, 21 days, we are on the others of the curve. And we are coming down. And then i dont need the ventilators that we have amassed an split and the bypass machines. We can redeploy what we have, personnel equipment, to whatever locality is next. Now, it is not a perfect sequential timing. But if you look at the projected curves, when it is going to hit michigan, when it is going to hit illinois, when it is going to hit florida, you will see that there is a timing sequence to it. Why not, or what is the alternative to now saying lets help each other . Lets focus on each situation as it develops, and lets move our resources and personnel as it develops. What is the alternative to the crisis that we see looming nationwide . You cant, you do not have enough. The federal government does not have enough material to sit there and say whatever you need, i can get you. Dont worry, california. Dont worry, michigan, dont worry, new york. Dont worry, florida. They cant. They cant. They have essentially said i dont have enough in my stockpile to handle all of this. And then you get into a blame game. Should it have been in the federal stockpile, should states have been stockpiled . Forget that. The reality is how do you handle this operationally, unless you go from place to place with the proviso that you say each state has to help every other stay as we go along . There is a simple analogy to this that we live all of the time. When we have minor emergencies or disasters, when we have a minor hurricane that is regional in nature or a minor flood, power goes out, what do we do . All of the power and utility companies, from all across the country, descend on the region that needs help. Right . After a hurricane, power lines are down. You look at the highways, you see all of those trucks coming in from different states, right . Arizona trucks, colorado trucks. When florida has a hurricane, what do we do . We get in the trucks. Everybody drives down to florida, personnel, etc. When puerto rico got into trouble, what did we do . Con edison new york, rochester , gas, they all went down to puerto rico. Why . Because help the place that has the crisis. This is that on a macro scale. New york is in crisis. Help new york and then pick up , decamp, and then go to the next place as this rolls across the country. There is not a perfect timing. There will be two parts of the country that hit an apex at the same time. There will be three parts of the country that hit an apex at the same time. But i do not see any operational or practical alternative to dealing with this going forward. And by the way, this is all operational. There is no concept, there is no abstraction or philosophy to this. This is a person walks in the door do you have a bed . Do you have a staff person . Are they wearing ppe and do you have a ventilator . And are they all present at that moment, when that person walks in that door . That is all this is. That is all this is. Forget testing, vaccines, that is a separate project. That is not where people are going to die in the near term. People are going to die in the near term because they walk into a hospital and there is no bed with a ventilator because there is either no bed or no staff or no ppe or no ventilator. That is what is going to happen. I think this is the only way to avoid it. And look, i believe the American People are there. You know . Have any times have we seen a disaster across this country and how many new americans just show up to help . It is in the american dna to say we are here to help one another. It is e pluribus unum. I did not have to put that on the seal. That is just a reminder, out of many, one. We are a community. We are americans. We are a family. We are brothers and sisters. There is a commonality. I am a new yorker, you are from california. I know, those are lines on a piece of paper. We are the same. We are the same. We know that here, in new york, i asked for people to come help new york, health officials, Health Professionals. 20,000 people volunteered in a matter of days to come help new york in the middle of a pandemic. 20,000 people, think about that. 20,000 Health Professionals said i will leave my home and come to your state. Systematize that voluntarism. Generosity,that that charity and that expertise. That is how we beat this damn virus as it marches across the country. We just deploy in front of the virus as it works its way across the country. In any event, when our curve is over, that is what we are going to do. New yorkers are going to take what we have amassed, we are going to take our equipment, our personnel, we are going to take our knowledge and we will go to any community that needs help. We are learning things that, fortunately, no other community had to learn because we are first. And because of the intensity of the situation here. When our urgent need is over, we will help any community in this nation that needs it, because that outpouring has been there for us. You know, i remember post9 11, and i remember post9 11, without asking anyone for anything, the people who showed up in new york just to help. Tradesmen bringing tools. People bringing food, people bringing trays of cookies. Whatever. They just showed up. Nobody asked. They just showed up. And that, i am here to help, and stood on the corner, helping people. That is america at its best. And at this time, when we are dealing with our worst, lets deploy america at its best. And we know what that is. And that can help us. Questions, comments . There is no data to support the effectiveness of facemasks. And i understand that usually we like to have things based on evidence. Unfortunately in difficult times like this, we have to go with expert opinion. Right now the data doesnt there isnt data to suggest whether masks, except for those who are ill and those are healthcare workers. That is why we are reserving those for health care workers. [indiscernible] show there is evidence of that. Like i was saying, there is no clear evidence suggests that facemasks made out of cloth or the general public uses facemask. We are continuing to look at data all the time that is coming in and we are examining that , right now. Gov. Cuomo let me ask the doctor for a qualified opinion. I think it is fair to say the masks could not hurt unless they gave you a false sense of security. You know when the doctor talks , about a mask, they are talking about a formfitting mask that nose, that does not allow any other air to come in. That is really what a mask is. To ask the doctor does a bandana help, i said to the doctor inside, i will get the bandanas that i wear when i ride my motorcycles. He was like that is not going to help. This is what the doctor thinks of as a mask. Right . But could it hurt . Might it help . I think it is fair to say yes. But dont get a false sense of security that now you dont have to social distance or take the normal precautions because youre wearing a bandana. Is that fair to say . [indiscernible] expectancy from upstate at the same time new york city still needs ventilators gov. Cuomo first of all, dont use the word sieze. I didnt use that word. That is a harsh kind of word. It is sharing of resources. We are going to share resources. We are not going to have any part of the state that doesnt have the resources they need, because we didnt share resources. We are tracking every night, every hospital who comes in, what they have, what they need. We are just sharing and shifting resources, which is the only intelligent thing to do among one group of people. Right now, the numbers in upstate new york are lighter than the numbers in downstate new york. But that is going to change. It is in new york city. Now you are seeing long island start to light up. We had westchester light up. Numbers are growing in erie. You are going to see that wave move through the state. You have been watching it every day on that map as every state and every county is covered. We are going to shift resources all across the state to whatever place has the need at that time, and we are going to make sure every hospital has the resources they need to do the normal business. What is fascinating is the normal business has dropped off dramatically for a hospital. Why . We canceled all elective surgery. So, elective noncritical surgery is not happening. And when we closed down most of society and people are staying home less people are getting , hurt. Less bicycle accidents, less crime. Some hospitals who are not dealing with covid are seeing very low activity. And it is not that we are going to leave any Health Care Facility without adequate equipment. But they dont need excess equipment now. Most of these hospitals put together a stockpile. You will have 50,000 masks. Well, 50,000 masks. How long does that last you . Five months it lasts me. Ok, you dont really need a five month supply right now. Keep a one month supply, give me four months, and god forbid you need it because there is a problem, i will redeploy it the other way. Otherwise, i owe you four months worth of masks, and i will pay you for it. How many ventilators are we talking about going from upstate to downstate . Gov. Cuomo we have to see how many we havent done that calculation. You have to go hospital by hospital, how many do you have and how many do you need for the immediate future . Ideally how many would you draw down . Gov. Cuomo there could be several hundred excess ventilators, in hospitals that dont have a Covid Response right now. And are you still anticipating we are projecting you think we have six days worth of supplies in new york city, or would you fiddle with that number little bit . Cuomo this is a number several hundred could represent several hundred lives. So am i willing to deploy for several hundred lives . You are damn right i am. Doesal hundred ventilators not fix the problem obviously, but it is a significant number of ventilators when you cannot find ventilators anywhere else, and you have done everything you can do. We are still at six days. Gov. Cuomo yes. [indiscernible] gov. Cuomo lets do it this way. Lets do it this way. You are burning about the burn rate is about 300 ventilators per day. If you find 300 excess ventilators, you found another day. [indiscernible] gov. Cuomo look, you it is human nature, right . Let me borrow, let me borrow your equipment. No. I would rather keep my equipment here. The government is going to take it, how do i know i will get it back . How do i track it . It is an expensive piece of equipment, by the way. Ventilators now well, now it is 50,000. When we started, it was 20,000. It is not like asking to borrow a cup of sugar. Order will stand up in court . Hospitals could [indiscernible] me . Cuomo to [indiscernible] gov. Cuomo it would be a slow day if i did not get sued five times. If they want to sue me for borrowing their excess ventilators to save lives, let them sue me. Do you think it could stand up . Gov. Cuomo yes it will stand , up. I will borrow them. [indiscernible] gov. Cuomo excuse me i will one second. Borrow them. I will return them, or i will pay you for a new one. You want to hope i dont return it so i pay you for a new one. Lend me your drill. I will bring it back to you, or i will buy you a new drill. How do you lose . [indiscernible] gov. Cuomo i am not taking your last drill. You have five other drills in your toolbox. You are not going to use five drills between now and then. If something happens where you go on a drilling frenzy, call me and i will bring you more drills. Go ahead, i am sorry. [indiscernible] is that going to house people who are in need of less intensive care . Or will it have icu beds . Gov. Cuomo it will have icu beds. A mix between well icu beds. ,for our own intents and purposes in this conversation it , is a ventilated bed. Right . So how many ventilators will be in javits . Its federally staffed will have and they will have to find ventilators for it. It is going to be up to them. Do they want ventilators in the stockpile . Gov. Cuomo that would be from their stockpile. The number of [indiscernible] continues to rise. Is there going to be a percentage of how many that would make you take over the nypd with state police . Is there something you are considering there. Gov. Cuomo we have the situation across the board. We have workers, transit workers who have a very high rate of illness and who by the way are doing heroic work. I want to thank them very much. John samuelson, the transit workers union. To run those trains and buses every day, talk about social distancing, you are a bus driver. Right . It is hard to social distance. You are a train conductor, pulling into stations across the city. So these they are doing heroic , work. Very high rate of illness. That is a problem. It is a problem in the nypd, a problem in the fdny. It is a problem all across the board. It is a serious problem with health care workers, nurses and hospitals. Staff. It will be on a casebycase basis, bernadette. We will look to the localities. We have the same situation in nassau and suffolk, by the way. We will look to the locality. What do they think is a level where they need backup and then we will do everything we can to provide backup. Is there a point where you would require a state takeover of the nypd . Gov. Cuomo no. You could not do a state takeover of the nypd. I would be of assistance to helping the nypd. We have to perform a policing function. Right . That is state constitution. Provide public safety. The nypd, if they have a serious staff shortage, then i would work with them to figure out how we remedy that. But the nypd is some 30,000 employees. There is no replacing 30,000 employees. [indiscernible] number of Covid Patients in the new york city area who were transferred [indiscernible] Capital Region . Gov. Cuomo does anybody know that . We have transferred over the course of the last two days several dozen patients back to this area. We are working closely with the hospitals down there. You have spoken with several authorities on the situation of the comfort. We reported last night that there were only 20 patients there. That seems to be a bad utilization of that. Gov. Cuomo i did not speak to the president on the comfort. The original agreement was that it was for noncovid people. I think the navy i am going to speak to the secretary of defense. The navys position is they dont want to put covid people on the ship, because it would be too hard to disinfect the ship afterwards. That is my rough interpretation of what they are saying. [indiscernible] rejecting as well, right . Gov. Cuomo i have not heard that. But we only have covid and nonCovid Patients. Right . And the need is really for the Covid Patients. I know they are not taking covid positive patients. But they said that from day one, in fairness. Now i dont know the science of ship disinfecting, to know whether or not they are being overly dramatic. I will take their word for it. Can we return to the slide with a total confirmed cases of coronavirus . Gov. Cuomo that tests my technological abilities, which we know which one do you want . The county breakdown. Gov. Cuomo the county . Breakdown. Gov. Cuomo can you do that . There must be some better way of doing this. There has got to be a better way. Do you have the update on any measures taken by the administration to lessen corroding crowding in state prisons . Gov. Cuomo we have no measures to lessen crowding in state prisons. We have put in a number of regulations and rules to reduce the risk. But reducing the prison population, we dont have any way to do that, right now. Is this the slide you are talking about . Positive cases . Have any of those measures in state prisons different than any in Nursing Homes or other facilities . Gov. Cuomo yes. I can get you the total list of those. There has been an uptick in Domestic Violence cases. Is there anything the administration can provide for the people . The state has a 1800 number. That is our Domestic Violence hotline. Women should know that they do not have to stay in those situations. We will help them relocate and we will help them find safe shelter. If there is an issue where you are in immediate harm, call 911 immediately. I spoke to the state police this morning. There is a reported uptick. As you said, some reports up to 15 to 20 . It is unacceptable on any day. I want people to know that every single case, the state will investigate fully. And bring the full bear of the law behind it. Gov. Cuomo lets take one more. How come you always ask the last question . I am always curious. [indiscernible] gov. Cuomo is that a french thing . It is french, you think . You dont want to get in the scramble with these aggressive americans . Please. My question is you did not talk about [indiscernible] and i also have a question about your father. What is a thing your father taught you that helps you in dealing with crisis . Gov. Cuomo you also ask the hardest questions. Is that a french thing you ask the most difficult questions . The question, my brother is easy. He is doing ok. This is going to be a great Public Service that he winds up doing. It will have been a miserable personal experience. Because this virus is no joke at any age. And he is relatively young. He is in good shape. But and he has had malaria before. He is not a crybaby, by and large. The but this is tough. I mean, it is tough. I talk to him several times a day. He has been fine but it is tough to deal with. He is going to wind up doing a great Public Service because all of these questions, the mystery about coronavirus, what is this, what if this, what happens he is , a living example of living with coronavirus. Right . And he is up there and he is talking about it. So, god bless him. And it demystifies it. You know he can talk you through , it. So i think that is going to wind up being a great Public Service at the end of the day. And as a journalistic contribution, i think it is going to be great. What did my father teach me that is most helpful in this situation . Uh, you know, he taught me so many things on so many levels that it is hard to say. But he had tremendous stamina. He loved winston churchill, never give up, never give up, never give up. That is where we are. He taught me to trust in love and loves triumph over anger and hate and selfishness. And we need love now. We need love as a people. Am i seizing ventilators . No, i am taking excess equipment to save lives. You know . It is about doing the right thing, it is about love and people will respond to that in this state and in this country. The twoink those are greatest things. This is hard, personally. It is hard to go through this all day and then it is hard to stay up all night, watching those numbers come in on the number of deaths pick up, and know that you are in charge of the ship at this time. And, i dont shirk that responsibility at all. But i went through a lot of hard times with him. And eventually, you go through the darkness and you find the light. And we are going to find the light. Thank you, guys. 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