Everybody knows whos here. To my right. Secretary to the governor, melissa de la rosa. Director. Lets give you facts. Plain, true facts. Good news. The curve continues to flatten. Talked all along, quoteunquote, the experts said that there were two possibilities. You could have a high point, a roppoff, or you could have a plateau. It appears that we have a plateau. Flattening. Its the flattening of the curve. You the increase has slowed down. Flattens out for a period of time. Nobody knows how long because before. Been here but if you look at the number of admissions, 18,000, 18,000, 18,000. Flattening. Itely a thats good news. Still going up a little bit, by the way. Go back a second. Up a little bit, but opposed tottening as gaps. Sing he total number of hospitalizations, net down, a little bit up, a little bit down. Ut overall just follow the line. Dont get caught up in the daytoday. Threeday rolling average, which is more accurate than any one day, is down again. In i. C. U. Nge admissions is down. This i. C. U. Ount admissions because the old in rcation of an i. C. U. Bed a hospital and regular bed in the hospital is gone. Anost every bed is basically i. C. U. Bed. Net change in i. C. U. Admissions down. O intubations is real. Intubations is the worst number. Ventilator, 80 , when its down its good and down. S the threeday rolling average is down. So thats good news. Worried about the spread rom new york city to suburbs upstate. And we have been very aggressive a n we get a little cluster, spot thats acting up, we jump on it. A fire like watching going through dry grass with a and its blowing the fire and a couple of wind embers wind up on one side of the field and you s a clus you are and have cluster and you have to run over to those embers and you to stamp them out so they wont grow. Stabilization and thats good, too. This is a new take on it. Net lk about hospitalizations. His is the number of new covid19 hospitalizations to date. Is how many new covid19 diagnoses or people walking into the hospital that have covid. Still 2,000 People Per Day are walking in or being covid. Ed with the u are still increasing hospital population. Initially, by 2,000 people who positive for covid but on the other side of the health care system, people are discharged on the other end. So the net is what we talk about been e weve always worried about lack of capacity where Hospital System you where you pour the water and the glass overfills. Where the Hospital Systems cant of people number coming in. And thats why weve been net. Ing the but this says, you know, take a deep breath. 2,000 people per ay who are coming into the Hospital System. Worst news i had to deliver to date as governor of new york news on a personal level, number of deaths is 671. Bad as its been in the past but basically flat and at a horrific evel of pain and grief and sorrow. His is 671 people who passed sunday. Easter for me, im catholic. The high holy s days, in one of many ways, the high holy day and to have this weekend is this really, really especially tragic and they are all in our thoughts prayers. The that raises the death 10,056. O 10,000, r perspective, 2,700 lives were lost on 9 11 new 11 changed every yorker who was in the position appreciate on that day what happened. Lives lost of lives lost was horrific after horrific. He grief was deaths. Re at 10,000 new york, 10,000 deaths, new ersey, 2,000 deaths, massachusetts, 756, and then you michigan. Tate of why new york . Hy are we seeing this level of infection . Ell, why cities across the country . Its very simple. Its about density. Its about the number of people a small geographic location allowing that viers to spread that virus ead and is very good what it does. Its a killer. Good at spreading. Dense ery contagious and a environments are its feeding grounds. We learned that lesson very on. Y remember, we had one of the first hot spots in the nation. Intense clusters was new rochelle, new york. Westchester is in county. Its not in new york city. Rochelle . Nd thats what i was so concerned about early on. We didnt know what we were looking at. New rochelle . Because in new rochelle, one or two people who were infected were in dense hundreds of th eople and it spread like wildfire. So its not just a dense city or a dense community. A dense person in environment. You can be in a very rural county. New york. People think new york city. No, no. Have more nties that cows than people by population. Anywhere. If you have one person who is infected in a room with 100 200 people, 300 people, now you have a problem. This goes back to the spanish cities canceled parades. Other cities didnt cancel parades. Numbers hrough these when we had the decision on st. Patricks day parade which will not still forgive me for but you can have small e in a relatively city but you bring people together and this virus has a frenzy. Where do we go from here . Reopening. Which Everyone Wants to do and yesterday. Ants to do i am and i am at the top of that list. To understand on the reopening, as much as we have this emotion, we want it to of want it to happen now and we cant take this anymore and everyone feels the same, it delicate balance. Remember what we have to do on reopening. Nd remember, it has never been done before. None of this has been done before. You, oh, i says to know what we should do. I know. Eah, you dont know because nobody knows. And thats the one thing that we ave learned over and over again. And this place has never done before. Also, you look around the world. Signs from ing countries who have opened. I my point is to our team, want to learn from those other countries. Frankly. Want to make sure we know from our studying and assessment whats going on in other countries that what worked what didnt work and lets learn from those lessons. And you can now go back and look look at province and italy and look at south korea and see what we did and see what so ed and what didnt work lets learn. Experts. Listen to the well follow the data. Ut remember this is a delicate balance. What are we doing on reopening . We are easing isolation. E want to increase economic activity. Essentially pen through a recalibration of what are essential workers. We never turned off the economy. The economy is still functioning. Car, you cann your get gasoline, you can go to the grocery store, you can shop. Bus. An get on a the economy is functioning. We never turned it off. Turned it way, way down. Nd its just the essential services that have been operating. But the essential services have operating. What you will be doing in ssence on the reopening is recalibrating what is essential. Right. Youll start to open that valve the economic activity. Valve very urn that economy, opening the more essential workers, do it do it slowly, and do it intelligently. Testing. And more precautions. Youre ame time that opening that valve. More testing so you have more nformation about who should be coming in, etc. More precautions because you works. At as yourecal brighting and as youre calibrating and opening the valve. Meter . The the meter is the infection rate. He meter is those Daily Hospitalization rates. And there is a cause and effect. Density. You have more people infecting other people. Ou will see it within a matter of days in that hospitalization rate. Open the valve. Slowly. Advised by experts. Meter. Ur eye on the the meter is the infection rate. Rate. Tch that infection and if you see that infection rate start ticking up, which be undermining everything we have accomplished thus far, hen you know youve opened the valve too fast. Balance he delicate that we have to work through. Been at is what has never done before. And nobody can tell you today, i that, because it just hasnt happened. So what do we do . Reopening up with a plan. Im not interested in political opinions. The nterested in what experts say about this. Tell you, they can but you have Public Health experts. Korea. N study south they can study china. They can study all the data we have. You have Economic Experts that help you decide what is the workers h of essential that can actually start the a nomy back up and have consequential change, but thats real plan and that has to be developed and that has to be smart. Geographic area for that plan the better . Virus doesnt nderstand governmental boundaries. Along with westchester county, to stop irus, has entering here and you follow my rules. No. Virus follows its own boundaries and its own uidelines and it doesnt have any. The Geographic Area that is an economic area, a workforce area, a transportation area, thats the relevant area that we have to be looking at. To coordinate all these systems. You cant start one system ithout starting the other systems. You cant start the Economic System without starting the system. Tation and if you cant run the transportation system, then you reopen the economy. Just doesnt happen. You have to coordinate the with the transportation with the Economic System. Hese systems work in coordination. Heyre big gears and each gear intermeshes with the other gear and you cant start one gear stopped, ther gear right . Coordination. Youre going to need federal support, and youre going to byd smart legislation passed the federal government that actually attends to the need. To normal political considerations. Testing is going to be key. Thats a new frontier for us also. Most tate is probably the aggressive state in the nation in actually getting the testing up. More than any other state. We test more than other countries. Test more than the other states leading combined in testing. But thats still not enough. And we have to do more. We know that the precautions work. The masks work. The gloves work. Taking works. E abnormal, its different, but it works and we have to do it. This, we were doing have to remember to stay the what and not jeopardize we have achieved. Achieved much. This afternoon, ill be joined by other governors. We have been talking to other states, connecticut, new jersey, delaware, rhode island for the past couple of days about coming up with how reopening up with a plan and can we Work Together on reopening plan, and well be having an announcement this afternoon with other governors just that, the reopening plan. And as i said, the optimum is to coordinated a regional plan as you can. Intergovernmental coordination can be somewhat of oxymoron but, to the extent we can work with connecticut and ew jersey and rhode island and delaware and pennsylvania, i want to. For everyone, for people of their state and for the people of my state. Time for smart, government. Ffective nothing else matters. I want to make sure that we i this er the people of state, we did everything we ould to the best of our ability. Nd the optimum is a geographically coordinated plan. I dont believe we could ever with total coordination all those states because all those states have a little different set of circumstances, in fact. Dont believe we should have a recognizing without the statebystate distinctions. We can he extent coordinate, we should, and we will. Last point, and this is a point. L when is it over . Have this conversation 100 times a day. I had it last night with my daughters. When is it over . And its a Difficult People want because it to be over so badly, right . To stop. E fear i want the anxiety to stop. I dont want to have worry about anymore. R dont want to have to worry about my daughters. I dont want to have to worry about my mother. I want to be out of my house. I have been living under this weird, disorienting, frightening place. People. Aid to touch his is a it violates the Human Behavior and needs. When is it over . Ts not going to be over like that. Its not going to be, we flick a intich switch and everybody comes out of their house and gets in their and waves and hugs each other and the economy all starts up. Thats goingto say to happen. Ts not going to happen that way. It cant happen that way. Can it happen in some across the country where, frankly, they have very infection rates and they could come up with a testing find one ere if they or two cases they quickly jump on those one or two and they late and isolate and they track . Yes. Ut is that going to happen here . No. Is that going to happen in any community that has a significant issue . No. Theres no going to be there epiphany. O be no there is going to be no morning here the headlines says, hallelujah, its over. Happen. Ot going to what will happen is there will points of resolution over time. What does that mean . There will be points of resolution. There will be points where we weve accomplished something, we should feel more , we should feel calm, we should feel more relaxed. Incremental. E were controlling the spread. Spread. Ontrolling the you look at those numbers, you know what it says, were controlling the spread. Was afraid that it was going to infect my family no matter did. I were past that. If you isolate, if you take the your family wont get infected. Spread. Ontrol the feel good about that. Because by the way, we could the point where we said, we cant control this damn thing. We cant control it. Its in the air. Your house. It doesnt matter. You close the door, it comes under the door. There. Ld have gotten were not there. Those numbers say we can control spread. Feel good about that. Over. Rst is yeah, if we continue to be smart Going Forward because, remember, valve. The hand on that you turn that valve too fast, you youll see that number jump back. But, yes, i think you can say the worst is over because the are people dying. Thats the worst. The worst doesnt get any bad this worst. And this worst is people dying. Worst. The and winston churchill, i day, the end other of the beginning. Spread, an control the and we can reduce the number of who die and our health do phenomenal work and rise to the occasion beast. L with this its has not overwhelmed the health care system, we have the systepread, and taken confidence to be in that. And thats an accomplishment. Nd it was a heck of an accomplishment. Those Health Care Workers for of my life i will say nothing but thank you to them. Could keepot sure we our ide from overwhelming hospital capacity. And they did. That. Ood about and i believe the worst is over if we continue to be smart. Start elieve we can now on the path to normalcy, and we a plan where you start to see some businesses understanding the delicate balance. I think there will become a there is an announcement that we have a medical treatment sick but they t found an antiviral medication you treat the disease. So take another deep breath when get to that point because, ok, you get infected but there regimen that can help you. And then youll get to a point a re they announce we have proven vaccine. Thats when its over. Its over. Ly when they have a vaccine, its been they , its been proven, can produce it, youre going to get a vaccine, this is the thing f the past, dont worry about it, close the chapter, move on. Ok. When do we get there . To 18 months. 12 nt believe you said months to 18 months. As cara said to me. Its 12 months to 18 mounts. When dr. Fauci said how long until a vaccine, he said 12 to 18 months. When the f. D. A. Is asked, how long does it take to get a vaccine . Months to 18 months. Thats the point when you ask me do a deep breath for the first time in five weeks, a vaccine. Ay we have thats when it is over. There will be points between feelnd then when we should more confident and we should feel better. Well, i want it to be over tomorrow. I get it. It to be over tomorrow. Over tomorrow ore than you want it over tomorrow. N the meantime, stay the course. Because we have accomplished a efforts of heroic Health Care Workers, police workers, transportation who showed up to drive those trains and buses every day. People just doing brave, generous, courageous things every day. Literally putting their lives at the public. Curve have flattened that by peoples actions, which, emember, is why those projection models were all wrong. The projection models were high. They werent wrong. Thats a bad word. What they were saying, this is infection will go if unabated. On s the question mark hether or not you can a bait it abait it . You have 19 Million People in new york. Up here all day long and say you must social stay home. Ou must if new yorkers dont believe it, it, ericans dont believe if they question their government, if i dont have do i stand here and go through all the facts. I am not asking any new yorker take my word for anything. Im not asking any american, take my word for it. The facts. Ill give you the facts. The good facts, the bad facts, facts, you get all the facts. You tell me, you decide. They decided on the facts they comply. And theyve done things i would have never dreamed that they would do. Actually made significant progress. Thatt reverse the progress we have made. Get r zeal to reopen and back to normal. Thats going to be the challenge Going Forward. Because we are new york tough and tough not just tough. Know what tough is. But tough is also smart and tough is also united and tough is also discipline. Is tough, most importantly, loving. Hile that sounds counterintuitive. They sound repugnant. No, no, no. No. Is people are strong love. To say the toughest people. Yorkers. S new questions . Reopen chools to reporter [inaudible] is there anything the states can help with . Governor cuomo you are talking equipment for hospitals . Reporter yes. Governor cuomo yeah. Commissioner and comments specifically. Works, you know how this on a daley basis daily basis, every hospital does an inventory that they send to us that says what they have and what they need. Hospital that is short we rgent need of anything, provide them with that material on a daily basis. Have any hospital that has said to us, we have an need for x that we have fulfill. Able to two caveats. Ou can have employees in a hospital who say, i dont like like whatcol, i dont the hospital is telling me to do. Of s a different set issues. Second caveat, you can have a say, i only have a makesday supply, and that me very nervous. Normally have a twomonth supply. Yes, i know that. Nobody has a twomonth supply of anything. That constrainedtimetable, tha. Received we reached out and there was one network that would like some new swabs. We are sending them 200 test kits today so they will have that but they are not out, they just wanted some for the future. To the governors, i was on the phone with about a dozen of the Hospital Systems and just what he said, people get a little nervous about running out of masks and things but often they have like a 30 day supply were 25 day supply and we monitor that on a daytoday basis. If they need it, we will send it to them. Reporter [inaudible] russian de. Is that part of the caveat . I think melissa spoke to that yesterday on the various calls and we are working closely with the hospitals as well as the frontline workers to get them the needed supplies. Theyre talking about reopening the economy but specific to schools, what would have to happen first for schools to open specifically in new york city in regards to this plan . Governor cuomo they have to Work Together. You cant open one system that is thegears, which is a metaphor that doesnt work for and what about me. But thats ok. It works for me. You have three big ears. Transportation, economic, schools. Have to turn the other gears. You cant tell me to go back to work i live in Nassau County lets say i lived in west county. You can tell me to go back to work in new york city if you dont have the Transit System operating. I take the train from west chester. I cant go back to work until you have a trade, and that she would everyone to drive, which will be pandemonium in four minutes. You want me to go back to work, who is going to watch my children if these are closed . For many working people in new york, the Education System is who watches their children during the day. That was one of the problems with closing the schools in the first place. People were critical everybody is a credit, but people did not want to close the schools because they said than hospital workers wont be able to show up because the children will be at home. In the hospital workers, if they dont show up, then you have a real problem because our major fear was the collapse of the Hospital System. All of these things have to be coordinated and they have to be coordinated on a statewide basis. Look, when i closed all of the schools in the downstate area, there were Many School Districts that disagreed. We have like 700 School Districts in this state. Right now all the School Districts basically make their own decisions. I know. But in a situation like this, cannot allow 700 School Districts to make their own decisions. You can consult and try to cooperate, etc. , but we have to have one plane at the end of the day because then we have to take new york and try to coordinate it with new jersey and connecticut and delaware and pennsylvania and rhode island to the best we can. This virus doesnt understand School District boundaries. And these systems we are talking about dont work on any of these boundaries. Jobs transportation, they dont work on accounting basis. It doesnt work out way. Suffolk county, that is a nice delineation for a lot of issues, but none of the issues we are talking about. Isthe entire downstate area one area, metropolitan area. Then you have upstate. You could argue there should be a differentiation based on numbers were could be a differentiation and that is going to be the conversation when we bring connecticut, new jersey, pennsylvania. That are one parts part, metropolitan areas. That is all going to have to be talked through and reconciled. Reporter [inaudible] we are talking. O a number of states again, we want to coordinate as much as possible. But focusing primarily on our tristate area they talked about a tristate area. The more we can, but you also have to withce the complexity coming up with the plan relatively quickly that we can agree on. So that is what were going back and forth on. We are going to try to work with everyone. But you have different states and different situations and you have to prioritize where you really need coordination. We need coordination with new jersey and connecticut first and foremost because that is where our workforce comes from. You have a total interconnection among those states. People lived in connecticut and drive to new york city. They lived in new york city and drive to new jersey theres a total interconnection among them. That is the primary place for coordination. Reporter [inaudible] plan . Re a Governor Cuomo it could come later today. If i tell you the announcement today, where would you come here at 2 00 . Sense ofr my great humor and wit. Reporter to the city of buffalo be considered a hotspot in upstate new york considering that the highest number of infections i think outside of the metro area . Governor cuomo you could have a hotspot. It depends on how you want to define a hotspot. Hotspot within one mile or five miles or 10 miles or 100 miles . Reporter [inaudible] Governor Cuomo how big is a hotspot . Healthr i am no public expert. Governor cuomo it depends on how you define it. I called them clusters. You have clusters that pop up across the state. Smoken as you see some and you see a little fire, run there and tamp it out as fast as you can. In buffalo, weve had clusters that have popped up. Nassau, suffolk, westchester, rockland, right . They have had clusters. You say governor, when you believe the worst is over, are you in effect encouraging the type of behavior you are trying to prevent . This sort of optimism that might bring people out of their homes . Governor cuomo no. That is why i have said the exact opposite 57 times. Stay the course. Stay the course. It is working. Stay the course. Stay inside. Tapir cautions. That is why i say that 100 times to an annoying repetitive level. But facts are facts. Im not going to lie to the public. Facts are facts and numbers are numbers. To believe inlic the credibility of what we are doing. Credibility comes from two elements, in my opinion. Are you giving me all of the information or are you spinning me . Are you deciding you cannot tell me facts because, become too optimistic . Are you manipulating me with information . No. You get all of the facts. I am not worried that you cant handle information. You get all of the facts. Second, what i am proposing we do is drawn from those facts. Heres some of the information. I work for you. I give you all of the information was not no spin, no gloss, no sugar, no glazing. Here are the facts. Im not worried that you cant handle the facts, are going to get depressed come your going to get irrational. Heres what i propose based on those facts. I think it is the intelligent response to those facts. I hope you agree with me that it is the intelligent response and becauseow the proposal i need you to follow the proposal because it is all about you. If you the public, if the people dont decide to do social distancing, then nothing works. If the people decide not to stay home, nothing works. 19d never mandate Million People, you must stay in your house. And if they say, as new yorkers can say, i think youre being overly dramatic or you were to political or you dont know what youre talking about, what do i do when 19 Million People defy the order . Go out and arrest 19 Million People . They have to believe it. The facts. L im not going to shape the information they get here all in numbers. Here is my policy based on the numbers. And heres what i suggest and i hope you think it is not only credible, but competent and smart and i hope you accept it will stop that is the best i can do. Reporter the amount of people pitalized our record high what makes you feel confident the worst is over . Governor cuomo im not confident the worst is over. I said if you look at the forers, 18,000, 18,000 18,000, 18,000, 18 thousand, the numbers suggest a plateauing, slight increase, but a plateauing, which is what the experts have talked about. That is what the numbers say. Whatever those numbers say is a direct result of what we do. I have said if we do something stupid, you will see those numbers go right back up tomorrow. Period. Is worst can be over, and it over, unless we do something reckless. And you can turn those numbers on two or three days of reckless behavior. It is like being on a diet. You get on the scale every morning. I lost five pounds. Ive lost five pounds. Oh, youre declaring you have lost five pounds forever. No. I lose selfdiscipline today and i go home and i eat like a horse and i will get on that scale annual give me a Different Number tomorrow. It is directly a result of what you do today. The number is down because we brought the number down. God did not do that. Fate did not do that. Destiny did not do that. A lot of pain and suffering did that. That is why we lost five pounds. Because we went out every day and we exercised and we burn more calories than we ate. That is how it works. It is math. If you dont continue to do that, you will see that number go back up. And that will be a tragedy if that never goes back up. Reporter [inaudible] declined to provide a list or number of cases in each nursing. Ome in new york city can you explain how in the recent days of confidentiality, just release the total number of cases that each facility . Governor cuomo john, i dont know that details of the Health Care Privacy law but i know the Health Care Privacy law is very expansive. Health officials are always very patients help. I can get you an answer today. Reporter [inaudible] generally prevents the release of personal information. How to person identify [inaudible] Governor Cuomo just so were clear, commissioner zucker is a doctor and i respect doctors. But he is not a lawyer. Me get your legal opinion, medical doctor. Hippa law. Tand the this is their home. Nursing homes are there home. We want to make sure we protect their privacy in that sense as well. It is not just an issue of sort of saying that there is a hippa law. We dont want to put information out about that. [inaudible] it is a long. but we will get you the legal we will get you the law on the matter. At the law is also tied to the spirit of the law and ethics, right . You dont want to invade peoples privacy. Haveve you everything i that doesnt invade someones personal privacy step otherwise, there is no secret to the number of deaths in nursing homes, right . To the extent you can release it without invading peoples privacy cant release it. Reporter [inaudible] upstate, would you consider starting the reopening upstate to see how it goes . Governor cuomo were going to talk to the other states. Whatever we do, were going to do in combination with other states and we will talk about that at 2 00. Could i see a distinction in places that have different caseloads . Yes. You have your hand on the valve. Youre watching the meter. Your opening the valve a little bit and then youre watching the meter. The meter is the infection rates. Will the meter respond differently in a rural county than a dense urban county . Yes. How do you calibrate that into a reopening plan . That is what we have to think through. Reporter we have countless people contact us about unemployment. How is the new platform working and how long is it taking for people to get their checks . Governor cuomo the new platform is working much, much better. The department of labor website basically crashed when it was overwhelmed by the number of callers for unemployment. Peoplevably we had 1000 working on the website handling the calls. 1000 people could not handle the input, which is just phenomenal. But we changed the system, changed the website. Melissa can speak to that. The new platform got up and running on friday. We have gotten a lot of positive feedback. I think it went from 150 questions down to 20. As of about an hour ago come the latest numbers i got from dol was 200,000 calls were made between friday morning and last night. They are on the phones again this morning. Information about the checks going out to you so we can get back to you after this. Reporter [inaudible] made. ,000 calls were not everyone answers the phone. By the way, for the public listing, if a call comes up and youre on the list and it is private, answer it because it is the department of labor calling to finish the process. 200 hymns were made and then there is the percentage of that where they have actually connected. The calls were they connected they do close out the applications. Is beentand that successful. I can get you the completed never after this. Reporter are you worried that President Trump is going to fire dr. Fauci . Governor cuomo i think dr. Great. S i think Americans Trust him. He has been helpful to me as governor. I have called him numerous times. He is very good at getting back. As youre walking through these Uncharted Waters and trying to feel your way and since what the bottom is like, i think he has been extraordinary. I think it would be i cant imagine as crazy as things and in crazyorld washington, i can imagine that would happen. Did i say anything we need to correct . Anything that i didnt say that . Wasnt right . Reporter weve been following up look closely. There are 200 positive cases, hospitalizations right now in buffalo. That is up from 225 a couple of days ago, so it is pretty stable right now. We are watching numbers locally out of our almost. Buffalo is pretty stable right now but if it pops, we will definitely have more people on it. Governor cuomo . Melissa rob . Im going to be back at 2 00. It for 2 00. Im going to be back at 2 00. 2 00. Jesse, i know you will be back if i tell you. I will see you at 2 00. Thank you guys. Thank you. This afternoon george georgia governor brian kemp. In the Task Force Briefing from the white house to agile at 5 00 eastern scheduled at 5 00 eastern. Eveninght, special addition of washington journal on the federal response to the coronavirus crisis. Join us at 8 00 with dr. Anthony fauci. Then the director of the Infectious Diseases division at the university of alabama at Birmingham School of medicine on the national fight against the coronavirus and his own experience contracting and recovering from the disease. Join the conversation about the coronavirus isis. Washington journal tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Cspan has aroundtheclock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic and it is all available on demand at cspan. Org coronavirus. Watch updates, track the spread with interactive maps. Watch ondemand anytime, filtered at cspan. Org coronavirus. The Supreme Court announced it is going had with oral argument in may but just as this will hear the cases via conference call. Among the cases that were announced, a lawsuit to force president to release his tax returns and other financial records and with Electoral College electors are locked into who they can vote for based on the state ocular about. Us in our next segment is shai akabas, the director of Economic Policy at the bipartisan policy center, focusing on the economic response of the federal government and the Economic Impact of the pandemic. Lets start with unemployment numbers, more than 16 million americans are unemployed. The headline at cnbc, jobless claims last week up by 6. 6 million, now 10 of the workforce in three weeks is unemployed. , of us an idea, shai akabas the shortterm and midterm of those numbers. Scary howis really precipitously the economy has fallen off. Because we had to proactively shut it down to combat the Public Health crisis. It is different from prior recessions, where there was some underlying economic problem that caused us to go downhill. The first thing we have to recognize and emphasize is first and foremost this is a Public Health crisis. Betternomy will not get until we resolve the Public Health situation, or at least mitigate the problem. That has to be our primary focus. It will be the most important determinant and how the economic fallout ends. Host what is your sense of how the legislation passed so far by congress and what might be ahead in terms of the money available will help mitigate some of these job losses and help extend Unemployment Benefits for these people and help balance, or at least stabilize, the economy . Guest that has been critical. They passed the 2. 2 trillion package with phase three, and that is basically unprecedented in scale. They set up several new programs at the treasury department, federal reserve, Unemployment InsuranceProgram Major expansion, and what we need to realize is this is the relief phase. We are not in the stimulus phase yet. We are in a situation where the