He is not a doctor either. Who else . Worked with me in the state for many years and has been a great talent here. It is a pleasure to be here today. We are at syracuse state university, the upstate medical school and hospital. Had a chance to say hello to the nurses and doctors who work ere. I wanted to say thank you for for all they have done here. He also sent a team down to new york city. So it has just been an extraordinary experience but we have seen the good, the bad and the ugly in all of this. The good is beautiful. Let me talk about some of the facts we are dealing with today. Facts are our friends, right. People want to know the facts without spin or opinion. That is what we have been giving them. Total hospitalization rate is down a tick, which is good news. The change in hospitalization is own. The number of independent bations is also down. The number of covid hospitalizations per day these are new people who are newly diagnosed with covid. It is under 1000, which is good news. It is still a significant number of people. 900 people. After all of this, we still had 900 new infections yesterday on a threeday rolling average, butover all you see the numbers coming down. That is good news. His is the worst news. Every day, i think maybe today is the day that the nightmare will be over but it is not. 335 people passed away yesterday from this virus in this state. 35 families. The number is basically reducing but not at a tremendous ate. The only thing tremendous is the number of new yorkers who still passed away. Everyone is talking about reopening. I get it. You cant sustain being closed. The economy can sustain it. Individuals families cannot sustain it. We cant sustain it on a personal level. Our children cant sustain it. But when we talk about reopening, this should not be a political discussion. It shouldnt be a philosophical discussion, it shouldnt be because people are protesting or some people want it and some people dont want it. It is a factual discussion on eopening, right . Lets demystify it a little bit because in this environment it is becoming rhetorical rather than factual. We want to reopen, but we want to do it without infecting more people or overwhelming the Hospital System. We were at upstate medical today. Our great fear was the number of people infected would overwhelm the Hospital Capacity. That is the balance. Reopen, but dont increase the number of infected people and dont overwhelm the Hospital System. Then design that system in reopening. Right . You can factually, with data design a system that does just that and that is what government is supposed to do. Government is not about spouting political or philosophical opinions. Government is about running services, designing programs that actually work for the people to address the problem. And in this situation, we can actually measure. We have data. We have facts. So, measure what is happening in society and calibrate your reopening to those measurements, right . So, were adopting a set of rules, a set of guidelines. We have studied reopening plans, all around the country. We have spoken to every expert on the globe who has been through this before, and we have come up with factual data points o guide us on reopening. First point, dont overwhelm the Hospital System. If the Hospital System in an area exceeds 70 capacity, which means you only have 30 left, or if the rate of transmission of the virus hits 1. 1, those are danger signs. We know that. Danger signs. We know that. Remember, Hospital Capacity. If youre at 70 on your hospitals, there is a two week lag on this virus, so if you weeks as people who just got infected actually get ill and some of them come into the hospitals. So, 70 is a safe metric to use for your Hospital Capacity. If the transmission rate hits 1. 1, thats what they call outbreak. That means it is going to spread much, much faster. You wouldnt start reopening unless you had a transmission rate below 1. 1, really below 1. But if it hits 1. 1, that means that youre in trouble. So, those are two main data points. If you look at the state, and this state is different than most states, this state has new york city, one of the most dense urban areas on the globe, and then we have upstate new york. And if you look at our infection rate upstate new york, it is very different than the rate of downstate new york. And if you look at the rate of upstate new york, it is comparable to many states in the midwest and the west. We hear the discussion every day, well, some states are reopening because thats dont have that bad of a problem. Some of the places in upstate have a problem that is comparable to states in the midwest or the west. Much, much different than new york city. Ok, then lets come up with data points, factual points of what we have to do to reopen. So, everyone has the same opening template that were dealing with. And we have to be smart about this. Again, i know it is emotion, and i know that people are feeling emotional. But emotions cant drive a reopening process. Were talking about infection rate and Hospital Capacity. Separate the emotion from the logic. And we have to act as our logical selves here. And thats what smart means. Be smart about it dont be emotional and dont be political. Dont get pushed politically into a situation. Protesters are in front of the capitol, we better reopen. No. Im not going do that. Thats not how we make decisions. The first point is cdc set guidelines as to reopening for states. We think those cdc guidelines make sense. You have to have a 14day decline in the number of hospitalizations before you go forward. Second, identify industries that you can start reopening that will bring people back to work, get the economy going, but, you know that you can do the appropriate precautions and social distancing. So, in phase one, were talking about the construction and manufacturing industry. Those are two industries that employ a lot of people, but we believe you can put the right precautions in place and learn the lesson from where we have been. And, say to those businesses, this is not just about government, but say to the business, tell us how you are going to incorporate the lessons that we just learned. How do you incorporate social distancing . How do you incorporate fewer people in this space you so reduce density . How do you have the right ppe . How are you going to monitor . Are you going to take temperatures of everyone who walks in . Thats for businesses to decide also. Separate point, make sure that you dont have what we call, attractive nuisances, not really the right use of the term. Attractive nuisance is a legal term. But, an attractive nuisance in this context you open up a facility, or an attraction that could bring people from outside the region to you. You have all of this pentup demand in the whole tristate region. Make sure that dont open up something thats going to bring hundreds of people from the outside in. What business precautions will those individual businesses take . Watch the healthcare capacity. Your Healthcare System cannot go over 70 capacity. Again, there is a twoweek lag. If youre at 70 , bells should go off. Dont go over 70 in your icu beds. Many of the people who come in with covid, need an icu bed because it is respiratory illness. As a matter of fact, almost at the heat of this, almost every bed in a hospital turned into an icu bed. Thats why we needed the ventilators. Because, these people who get seriously ill with covid need that level of care. Remember, you have a flu season coming up in the fall. And the number of hospitalizations normally goes up in the flu season. So, anticipate that. Stockpile the equipment. We learned a lot of painful lessons here. One is, you have to have the ppe, you have to have the masks and you have to have the gown. There is an International Demand on it. So, make sure we have a stockpile of reserve of the ppe. We have to have testing. How many tests . Dr. Birx recommends 30 per 1,000 people. Different people have different numerical personals. But, i think that we start with that. Do we have enough testing sites . How long does it take to turn around a test . And then are we advertising to people, this is where you go in and this is what you do to get a test, if you think you may be infected. The whole thing with keeping that infection rate down, is find a person early who is infected, let them know it, and then, trace and then isolate. Do we have a tracing system in place . Mayor bloomberg is helping us to organize this. It has never been done before. Nobody ever heard of tracing to this extent. But, tracing is once a person says that they are positive, you trace their contacts back, you notify people, you test people. That is a whole different operation. The current recommendation is you need at least 30 tracers per 100,000 people. So, we have to have that in place. You have to have isolation facilities in place. Isolation facilities are when someone gets sick, you know that they are positive, and they dont want to go home to quarantine, because, if they go home, they could infect their family, which is what is happening now, a lot of these new cases. So, we have to have a facility where somebody who is positive, could quarantine for the two weeks, without going home. And we have to identify them now. We have to coordinate regionally, schools, tracing this all has to be coordinated on a multicounty effort. We have to reimagine telemedicine. Reimagine teleeducation. We have to have a regional control room that is monitoring all of these indicators and gives us the danger sign if we get over 70 capacity, if the infection rate pops up. We have to have one Central Source that is monitoring all these dials, that hits the danger button so you could actually slow down the reopening. And then we have to protect the respect the essential workers which is ill talk about in a moment. On businesses, they have to have social distancing, continued testing, ongoing monitoring protocols. Thats all part of the new normal and businesses are going to have to do that if they want to reopen. They are going to have to adopt the federal and the state guidelines on this issue. Today were announcing an Advisory Board that is made up of statewide business leaders, academic leaders, Civic Leaders who are advising us on just this and they have been for weeks and i want to thank them very much. Manufacturing, construction, as the first phase, businesses, thats 46,000 jobs in a place like Central New York so its major employer, and these are businesses that can adopt to the new normal in terms of their employees and in terms of the places of business and in terms of the processes that they put in place. On the healthcare capacity, again, we just lived this. We cannot be in a situation where 70 capacity is exceeded. You need at least that 30 buffer on hospital beds and you need 30 of your icu beds available if that number starts to tick up. In terms of testing, we have to have the testing regimen in place and we have to prioritize the people who get tested. Symptomatic people, individuals who came in contact with a symptomatic person, and front line and essential workers. They do have a higher right infection because they are putting themselves in harms way and we want to make sure that they have the testing so we have an early alert system. You have to have the right number of sites. Testing wont work if it is impossible to get. Testing wont work if it is too hard to get. So you have to have the right number of sites for the area that youre dealing with. The advertising is very important. It has to be available but people have to know it is available and they have to know what the symptoms are that would have them go get tested because, again, this is about people understanding it and people buying into it. This is not government orders. This is people get it. They know the facts, they know what they are supposed to do and these do it because they have been, weve communicated successfully the circumstances and the facts. But you need that testing and you need it to trace the contacts. Otherwise, you see that infection rate increase. On the tracing, the estimate is 30 tracers for every 100,000 people. So thats a data point. Thats what it means to have tracing in place. And then isolation facilities is a proportionate number of people who test positive, who say, i cant go home or i dont want to go home. I dont want to infect my family. I dont want to infect my significant other. I have enough issues without having to explain how i infected my significant other with covid, which is a valid point. So, isolation facilities are available for those people. And then the regional control room, where youre monitoring all of those metrics, youre monitoring Hospital Capacity, the rate of infection, the ppe burn rate, how businesses are complying, and it has an emergency switch that we can throw if any one of those indicators are problematic because remember we have gone through hell and back over the past 60 or so days. What we have done has been tremendous, really tremendous. What people have done, what the American People have done, what new yorkers have done, has been to save lives, literally. But we have to remain vigilant. This is not over. I know as much as we want it to be over, it is not over and we have to respect what we accomplished here. When they started this the projections for this state were 120,000 new yorkers would be infected and hospitalized. Only 20,000 were infected and hospitalized. How could they be so wrong . They were not wrong. We changed reality. The differential, the variance, is what we did. It is close down. It is wearing masks. It is all of that. We reduced the rate. We socalled flattened the curve. That meant 100,000 fewer new yorkers didnt get seriously ill, didnt go into a hospital, didnt overwhelm the Hospital System. And a age of those people who got seriously ill would have passed away. So we literally saved lives. We cant now negate everything that we accomplished. We have to do the opposite. We have to take this experience and we have to learn and grow from the experience. And we have to build back better than before. As a society and as a community we need better systems. This exposed a lot of issues, fundamental issues. We have to do a better job on teleeducation. Remote learning, sounds great but you have to have all of the equipment, people have to be trained and teachers have to be trained. We jumped into it. We have to do a better job. We have to do a better job on telemedicine. Not everybody has to show up at the doctors office. You can do a better job. We have to do a better job on our basic Public Health system. I mean when you look back the virus was in china last november and december. Last november and december. Why didnt someone suspect, well maybe the virus gets on plane last november, december and lands in the United States the next day, right. Everybody talks about global interconnection and how fast. Everybody knows, there is a virus in china. Last november, december, china says dont worry were taking care of it. Yeah, but all you need is one person to get on a plane. As it happened, one person got on plane and went from china to europe and then it went from europe to new york. The flights from china basically go to the west coast. The flights from europe basically go to the east coast. We got it through europe. But, where was the whole International Health community . Where was the whole National Host of experts, the who, the nih, the cdc . That whole alphabet soup of agencies. Where was everyone . Where was the Intelligence Community with the briefings . Saying this is in china and they have something called an airplane and you can get on an airplane and you can come to the United States. Governors dont do global pandemics, right. But, there is a whole international, national Health Community that would do that. Where are all of the experts . Where was the New York Times . Where was the wall street journal . Where was all of the bugle blowers who should say, be careful, there is a virus in china that may be in the United States. That was november and december. Were sitting here, january, february, still debating how serious this is. And again, its not a state responsibility. But, in this system, who was supposed to blow the bugle and didnt . Because, i would bank that this happens again, and is the same thing going to happen again . I hope not. So, we have to figure these things out. We also have to remember that as a society and as a community, were about government and were about systems. But even more, were about values. What makes us who we are, are our values. And thats my last point which is, point number 12, protect and respect the essential workers. I had two nightmares when this started. One, that i would put out directives on what we need to do and 19 million new yorkers would say, i havent been convinced, im not going to do this. Because look at what the directives were. Were going to close down every business. You have to stay in your home. I mean, the most disruptive Government Policies put in place. I cant even remember the last time, i cant even see in the in the history books the last time that government was more disruptive to individual life. No businesses, everybody stays home. No schools. What happens if new yorkers said, were not doing that . Were not doing that. Its too much. It is an overreaction, its political. Everything is political nowadays, right . So easy to say, well, thats just political. That was a fear, because if new yorkers did that, governmentally had no ability to enforce 19 Million People staying in their homes. Thats why the communication was so important. Give them the facts, give them the facts, give them the facts so they understand why. That worked. Second nightmare was, what if essential workers dont show up . You have to have food. You have to have transportation. The lights have to be on. Someone has to pick up the garbage. The hospitals have to run. What if the essential workers said, im not showing up. You communicated so effectively, the fear of the virus, that the essential workers say, if everybody is staying home, im staying home too. It couldve happened. I went through the hiv virus when hiv started. People we petrified. Nobody knew what it was. Nobody knew how it lived. How it was transferred. How long it lived. People were petrified. Nobody wanted to go near it. What happens if the essential workers here said, im not going to show up to run the bus. You dont pay me enough to put my life in danger. Im not doing it. They showed up. They showed up. I just finished communicating how dangerous this was to convince 19 Million People stay home and close schools and close businesses. And the essential workers still showed up. That is a value. They did not show up for a paycheck. They didnt show up because government asked them to show up. They didnt show up because their employer said, i need you to show up. They showed up, out of their values and out of their honor and out of their dignity. Thats why they showed up. My grandfather, people know my father in this state, my grandfather little italian immigrant, andrea cuomo, named for him. No education, ditch digger, came here the classic immigrant story. Winds up having a Little Grocery store in south jamaica, queens, poor community. And during the depression he almost lost the store and he loved to tell this story. Why did he almost lose the store . Well, it was the depression, and the finances. No. Because, he gave away food during the depression. Because, he wouldnt let anyone be hungry. So, a family would come in, nobody had money it was the depression and he would give them food. He was giving away so much food that he had problems paying his bills. Gave him a lot of stress, wound up having a heart attack as a young person. But, no one told him to do that. That was just his values. And i would ask him about it afterward. I said, grandpa, why would you do . He said, what am i going to do, do let them go hungry . Im going to let somebody go hungry . That was unimaginable to him. He was an essential worker. Nobody calmed him an essential worker but he was an essential worker. And, thats what people are doing day in and day out here. The person who delivers the groceries, the person whos driving the bus, the person whos driving the subway, the nurses, the doctors, the orderlies. All of these people who are showing up every day. Not because of the check, they could stay home too and file for unemployment. No, theyre doing it out of their sense of honor and their sense of dignity and their sense of pride, this is their mission, this is their role, theyre new yorkers, theyre americans, and theyre going to show up. The police officers, the firefighters. I mean, everyones petrified. Youre going to be a police officer, youre going to pull people over in a car . Youre going to go into a house for a domestic disturbance, wrestle with somebody in the house, you dont know who it is . Thats what they do. Thats their job. Thats why i wanted to thank the healthcare workers and everybody thanks the healthcare workers, but its not just the healthcare workers. Its all the people whove been out there all this time making sure that everyone else could stay home. They have higher infection rates. Theyre getting paid a minimal amount of money. They have families at home too that are suffering, but theyre getting up every day and theyre doing their job. So as we talk about reopening, protect and respect the essential workers. They need testing. They need equipment. Theyre putting their lives on the line. Protect and respect the essential workers. Public transportation weve kept running because they need it to get to work. Thats why Public Transportation continued. We talked early on about closing Public Transportation. They said forget it. Thats how the nurses are getting to work, thats how the orderlies are getting to work. Nobody will be in a hospital, nobody will be there to deliver the food, nobody will be in the power plant to keep the lights on, nobody will be at the telecommunications department. Public transportation is vital for them. Well, then make sure Public Transportation is safe, and disinfected. The New York Daily News ran a story today on the Public Transportation in new york city. And the front page is a picture of a subway car filled with Homeless People and their belongings. Respect the essential workers. That is disgusting what is happening on those subway cars. Its disrespectful to the essential workers who need to ride the subway system. Upstate new york, need to ride the buses to get to work. They deserve better and they will have better. We have to have a Public Transportation system that is clean, where the trains are disinfected. You have Homeless People on trains, its not even safe for the Homeless People to be on trains. No face masks, you have this whole outbreak, were concerned about Homeless People, so we let them stay on the trains without protection in this epidemic of the covid virus . No. We have to do better than that, and we will. And we will learn from this and well be better from this because we are new york tough. And tough means not just tough, because tough is easy. Its smart, and its disciplined, and its unified, and its loving. And thats who we are, and thats what we are, and thats why we got through this as well as we have thus far together. Because of our values, because of our respect, our dignity, our mutuality, our love for one another, our willingness to sacrifice, and because, were fortunate where we have many, many heroes in our midst, not because they have medals on their uniforms, but because they have honor in their souls and they have strength in their character, and they have dignity and pride in themselves, and because they show up every day, every day, to make sure that everyone is protected. And, they have to be at the top of the list. Theyre going to be at the top of the list in the next iteration of whatever this is. Theyre going be at the top of the list at the golden gate. But, they deserve our respect and protection here, and theyre going to get it. Questions . Week you this introduced folks to the concept of an attractive nuisance. Have thel new york, we Syracuse National car show, the state fair drew 1. 3 Million People. Our lakeside towns, when you think about summer, Central New York in the summer. In my estimation, it is an attractive nuisance. How can these things go on . Gov. Cuomo it breaks my heart but they cant, unless it is done statewide and unless it is withnot just statewide but our neighboring states. We had a situation in connecticut where they had certain things open that we did not have open. They had waterside parks, just what you mentioned. Connecticut called and said i have all new york license plates my parking lot. People will get in the car and drive several hours to go somewhere. If you open the state fair this year, you would have the highest attendance we ever had. That i can guarantee you. But it would not be good. Everything is about reducing density. It would have to be statewide. Parks, beaches, water side attractions, that would have to be statewide. Or whatever region did without the others, you would have a massive infusion of people from everywhere. That is density and density is the problem. Doneis a no, unless it was statewide in collaboration with the other neighboring states. We do almost every thing together with connecticut and new jersey, or at least we know what they are doing and the consequences of what they are doing. Fairan you open the state unless the entire state is at a point where it is opened . I dont believe so. Reporter [indiscernible] peoples of thousands of apply for money have not seen anything. I know you keep saying they will get their money. It will come when it comes. A lot of people to paychecktopaycheck. What more can you do . Gov. Cuomo it is something we work out every day. It is not a new york problem. It is a nationwide problem. The number of unemployed hit an alltime high. They all called the local Unemployment Office in the state. Every state is dealing with this. I talked to the governors on joint conference calls. Every state is overwhelmed and trying to design new technology and new apps and new this. Our state actually is doing much, much better than the other states in how many people have not been able to sign up. People working00 on phones and technology. Its even more now, right . Man people hired just to phones and the website, etc. We have the number down dramatically. Sheer function of quantity and volume. Now, good news, bad news. Yes, it is frustrating as heck. It does not cost you any money. You will get the check for the same period of time, but you are right. You are without that check until you get signed up. But the numbers are way down. Melissa, do you remember we have 3. 1 billion to over 1. 5 Million People. We are head and shoulders above all the other states who are dealing with this crisis. The problem is as we get the backlog down, in the previous weeks that continues to build. We are getting claims in real time. We are down to around 400,000 outstanding claims. The majority are the pandemic unemployment insurance, the self contractors, the gig employees or out of her because schools are closed, which is something the state has never dealt with before. That was from the cares act in march. The department of labor, now 3000 people working on this issue. They will keep working at it until everybody gets her money. The governor did an executive order that said you cant be evicted for the 90 days. That is something we will extend Going Forward if necessary. While folks are waiting to get this process and while we get through this, at least they know they cant be evicted from their homes and they look at the back pay back to the first day that they were do it due it. We understand and sympathize and we are doing everything we can to resolve the problem. Reporter [indiscernible] believed to be 3000 or so. [indiscernible] their Social Security numbers, phone numbers, where they work. That is what we were aware of as of yesterday morning. We did a further investigation. Oneppears there was mailing that was a problem. Two pieces of paper were stuck together and that caused the whole mailing to be off. We have not identified the specific number. They are looking at that now. Out of an abundance of caution everyone whose forms were printed and mailed world receive free credit monitoring for a year. They are having their claims prioritized. As of yesterday morning that was the number. We fear the number is higher but we have isolated the one mailing it was impacted from. I can get that information. It was from the end of last week. Reporter [indiscernible] are we as a region having permission to reopen . Did omo today what we i give concepts more yesterday. Today i actually gave the numbers and the data. The actual steps to a reopening plan. We said we will look at regions. Pause, the state goes on unpause. Thats about two weeks. The cdc guidelines say declining cases for the preceding two weeks. If we see the cases continuing to go down, we get the november 15, we will have met the cdc guidelines in some parts of the state. Not new york city but downstate, unless a miracle happens. Please, please. Then you would have regions which would meet the cdc guidelines, like some of the other states have met cdc guidelines. They could then plan a reopening. The question will be, what is a reopening plan . Everyone is talking about reopening. I will have a reopening plan. What is a reopening plan . There is no such thing. No one has done it before. We studied every reopening plan, spoke to every International Expert he went through this epidemic wave, second wave, flu season, and actually came up with 12 steps which are a reopening plan with metrics, with data. Here are the numbers. This is what has to be in place to reopen. Weeks havet in two reduced rates by the cdc guidelines, these would be the reopening plans we have to have in place. They are regional, which means those counties would have to coordinate on the county responsibilities. The state has to coordinate certain responsibilities. The federal government has responsibilities here. They are providing supplies for the testing. But testing has been a big problem. Probably most specific reopening plan with data that i have seen. I went through many of these. It is a very factbased, fordriven reopening plan regions that would keep them safe and allow the economy to reopen in phases. Reporter the president had a phone conversation with several governors. He said states should seriously consider reopening their schools before the Academic Year is over. What is your stance on that . Were you on that call . Gov. Cuomo i was on the call. Governors,lk to the you have 50 governors. You have 50 different situations. Au have some states that have problem and then you have me on the phone who has the worst problem in the country. Some states are reopening. If a states reopening, it would make sense for some states to reopen schools. I dont know how you really reopen businesses statewide without reopening schools. Because schools primarily educate our children as a practical matter. Work becauseo to the kids are in school. If the kids are not in school, that you have a childcare issue. For those states that makes sense. We have all schools that the state closed. We will have a decision at the end of this week but we are going to do for schools and then for summer schools. Reporter this hospital is across the street. Students want to know if it is safe to return on campus this privated how you expect universities like syracuse to reopen. What is the new reality for College Students . Gov. Cuomo i cant tell you what september looks like. I could guess but the guest does not help anything. We have to see where we are. I have a College Student at home who was supposed to graduate this year. She is taking her courses remotely. They dont plan any graduation. They dont plan any ceremony. We would have to figure out september before we get there but we have a long way between here in september. With a be able to open at the same time . Gov. Cuomo whatever school rules apply to cuny applies to other schools. Reporter hospitals are not received guidance from the department of health with regards to resuming. What do you have to say to that . Are they going to receive guidance . Gov. Cuomo nope. They are in the Capital District. Reporter [indiscernible] we have when we were in the midst of this we were worried about the Hospital Capacity. We did a couple of things. Every hospital at 50 capacity. We went from 50,000 beds in the system, 53 thousand to about 75,000 beds. We were looking at a projection of 120,000 hospital beds needed. We only had 50,000. We went to 75,000. Then we said no elective surgery. Withu dont fill the beds elective surgeries that can be postponed. That they are not lifethreatening. Some regions of the state where the numbers have come down, you can allow elective surgery and those hospitals because you dont have capacity issues. Stillarts of the state we worry about a capacity issue. We dont want to wind up in a weuation where hospitals say cant take any Covid Patients because we have beds filled with elective surgery. It depends on the region you are in in upstate new york. As the governor said, depends on the region. Today there will be guidance going out for regions that can resume elective surgery the governor announced last week, particularly prioritizing key surgeries put off for several weeks. That should be coming today. Reporter [indiscernible] gov. Cuomo the Capital District region still has the capacity issue. Western new york has a capacity issue. Central new york, i dont know. Haventral new york will guidance because they have fallen under the capacity threshold. All the regions will be notified if you are above or below the threshold and receive guidance based upon where they sit in relation to what the number of covid cases they have in the region. Gov. Cuomo Central New York can resume elective surgery because there capacity number is lower. The number of cases they have is lower. The western new york Capital District, that is not the case. Lets as somebody else. Reporter as other states start to reopen is the concern that new york could fall behind economically if were not quite ready to reopen yet . Gov. Cuomo we are talking about regions of new york, right . Different regions are at a different place. Downstate new york is one of the most hardhit places on the globe. Let alone in the state of new york or the nation. Notstate new york also had 11. It also had superstorm sandy. Be aill take they will disturbance to the economy, i have no doubt. In we will come back downstate new york. Upstate new york some regions are much like other states. That was the slide i showed you. We can be at about the same place that they are, but im not forg to trade off economics life and death, right . Public health comes first. Life comes first. Thinking about my grandfather. If we have our health, anything else we can figure out. But you have to have your health. If you are ever in a situation where they give you a really devastating diagnosis, you see how fast Everything Else comes irrelevant. It is just . If you have your health, you can figure out anything else. If you dont have your health, nothing else matters. Lets take one more. Reporter [indiscernible] gov. Cuomo both. You have county Health Department that technically have tracers or people who do this function on a much lower level now. You have county Health Departments, state Health Department officials, and we are going to have to hire people also. This is something no one has ever done before. Mayor bloomberg, the former mayor of new york city will help us design a system, do the training, but it will be a collaborative. If you said Central New York, if you look at the numbers, georg would need about new york would need about 150 tracers. You look at the counties in that region, how many people can do employees ofre now the Health Department, the government in that region. You dont have to be a Health Department person to be a tracer. Have a state employees and how many we have to hire to put that system together. New 24ourow was a mandate going for Nursing Homes when it comes to releasing covid19 information . There any that have not been following that rule . Gov. Cuomo i dont believe we have had any. We have not had any complaints. There are 600 Nursing Homes. Im sure there are complaints out there that i have not heard but normally when you have a significant number i hear about it and i have not heard anything about it. Reporter [indiscernible] calls from viewers about Nursing Homes. I have been in touch with the ags office. They cant go into details about that. What would you tell viewers who are fearing for their loved ones who have no clue of what is going on inside the Nursing Homes . Gov. Cuomo they have a right to know. That is a responsibility of the nursing home. Informsing home has to family members of the status of a person in a nursing home. That we can help with. The attorney general is investigating, the department of health is investigating also. What is really happening is what we feared from the getgo. We were introduced to this virus in the state of washington in a nursing home. This this lattice is inefficient an efficient predator. Home is ground zero for this virus. Period. It is a congregant facility of vulnerable people, and to stop the virus from getting in, every in, theyber walking had to the temperature. One facility person, one nurse, one doctor, one anything to walk in their and then it is fire through the dry grass. Look at the people who have passed with this virus, predominantly senior citizens, people with a compromised immune system. It is frightening. If you have a loved one in a nursing home, it is frightening. One more. If that second wave does occur later this year worke way the plan would is you have built in monitoring mechanisms. In governort can be a limiting device. You had a built in Circuit Breaker, if you go above 70 capacity. You hit flu season and people start to come in for the flu, you get that 70 threshold, Circuit Breaker. You are in the red zone. 1. 1, one person has it and it transfers to more than one person, Circuit Breaker because you are off to the races. That is what they call outbreak status. We are down by. 8 right now. Error. Tight margin of those would be two built in Circuit Breakers. They are afraid of the flu season because flu season takes up Hospital Capacity. It takes up testing capacity. Testing,rking on covid but what do labs usually do . They do all the flu testing. If you have all the labs doing covid testing, what happens when flu season comes . Worried about the flu season. And youet to flu season start to feel achy and you are sneezing and coughing, you will say, either i have the flu or i have covid. And having the flu is one thing. Having covid is something else. Youre going to run to the emergency room. And now they worry about Hospital Capacity again. Thats just with the flu season. Thats without the socalled second wave. What theyre worried about with the second wave is, you look at the 1918 pandemic, flu pandemic. It came in waves. The first one, and then the virus mutated and came back stronger. So could the virus mutate and come back stronger . Maybe. Thats what the second wave is. Thats why i say its so important when were doing the retrospective here, what happens next time china says i have a flu, i have a virus or south korea says i have a virus . Is it going to take the International Community and the federal agencies two months to figure out that were in trouble . I think the attitude has to be a flu, a virus anywhere is a virus everywhere. Thats the only safe operating principle, right . It was in china on monday. It could be here today. Well, were not so sure. We dont but it could be. Right . So but thats the second wave theyre afraid of and then the flu. I have to go back to albany. Thank you so much, guys. Thank you. Gov. Cuomo that will be governing on parents will follow facts because parents are worried about the safety and health of their child. The state the state Emergency Powers govern over the 700 School Districts so whatever we do will be binding on the School Districts. Our universities an attractive nuisance . Gov. Cuomo no. Reporter you announced today [inaudible] your reaction to that . Gov. Cuomo well, the balance is, i dont know the facts and circumstances of that hospital. But obviously the last thing anybody wants is to furlough frontline workers. 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