Gov. Cuomo good afternoon. Good to see you all here today. Properly socially distanced. For those of you who do not know, to my right is melissa derosa. To my left is robert mojica. Always happy. Smiling. Today is sunday. Beautiful day in new york city. Sunday for me is a day of reflection. Do a little reflecting. Today is day 64 since we closed down new york. Only 64 days. Feels like a lifetime. Only 64 days. Todays numbers, the total hospitalization rate is down. That is good news. 9786. Below 10,000, which is a big deal for us. You have to go back to may 18, 19th to get near that number. March, im sorry. The total number of hospitalizations is down. The number of intubations is down. Intubation is generally bad news. The number of new cases is 789. That is good news. We were hovering at around 900, 1000. That may be a reporting anomaly because this is over the weekend and the weekend reporting tends to be a little different. This reporting system we put in place, this never happened before were hospitals were reporting on a daily basis. Hospitals have a lot going on. I would not bet the farm on any of these specific oneday numbers, but the overall trend is good. The number that is the most important number that we look at, which is still tremendously distressing is the number of deaths. 280. You can see that number has not moved dramatically in a relatively long period of time. The overall direction is good even though it is very painful. I think it is important we take a moment and learn the lessons of what we have been going through. This has been unprecedented, what we have been doing the past 64 days. This was all an urgent situation. This was all, hurry up. We had to quickly figure out a plan. Enact a plan. We are a couple months into it. I think simultaneously, we should be learning the lessons of what we just went through. People talk about this like it is going to come and go. I do not know that it is onceinalifetime. I do not know that it is going to come and go. There are people talking about a second wave. They are talking about a possible mutation of the virus. Caution would suggest that as we go through this, we learn at the same time to make sure if we have to go through this again or if this is a prolonged situation, that we are learning from what we are implementing. Edmund burke, great irish philosopher, those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. Wise words. The macro questions, bigger than just new york questions, bigger than the governors questions, what happened in china . Where did this virus start . What should china have told us . Above my pay grade, but important questions. How did the virus get from china to the United States . We assume it got on a plane from china and flew to the United States. That was the first thinking. Now it appears that is not so. As we are going through this, what we have done differently . More importantly, what should we do differently if this is a prolonged situation or if there is a next time. Again, caution. I would assume there is a next time. Anyone who sits back and says, this is the only Public Health threat we are going to face that is not the case. We are seeing increasing threats across the board. Environmental threats, mother nature, natural threats, threats from emergency whether we have never seen before. If you look back as far as 1918 when they had the flu pandemic that people talk about, it took 10 months. It came in three different waves. The second wave was worse than the first wave. Even if you put aside all of the modernday challenges, this happened in 1918. It came in three different waves. Lets be prepared and intelligent. Some of the lessons to learn, the cdc did a fascinating report that it put out on may 1. It starts to take a deep look at what happened. There is a lot of Important Information in that. He pointed to something we have been looking at here in new york. The report says when they look at the different strains of the virus in the United States, that there are different strains. We were all looking at the west coast. The west coast had cases well before the east coast. Maybe six weeks before the east coast. Those strains came from china. What we sow in the state of washington, what we saw in california. They came from china. Flights from china land predominantly on the west coast. What we have seen in new york did not come from china. But actually is a different strain of the virus that came from europe. That is an important fact to know and to study. They then said in the cdc report from february, you had 100 39,000 travelers coming from italy. 1. 7 4 million from other European Countries where the outbreak was spreading wildly and rapidly. Everyone is looking at china. Meanwhile, the virus had traveled from china to europe within europe, spreading from europe. We had european travelers coming. They come to the east coast. They land in new york. They go to new jersey. They go to connecticut. We are all still looking at china. We were looking at china and the travel ban on china may have been helpful, but the horse was already out of the barn in china. The virus had left. The virus was in europe. Meanwhile, we have european travelers coming here and they are bringing the virus, which is bringing the virus, which is now a different strain of the virus, to the east coast. This is from that cdc report, the Deputy Director delaying travel bands allowed for the virus to spread throughout the u. S. And contributed to the initiation and acceleration of domestic covid cases in march. Extensive travel from europe, once europe was having outbreaks, really accelerated our importations and the rapid spread. The timing of our travel alerts should have been earlier. ,hat is a very important fact and something we have to learn from. A person from the Grossman School of medicine, knowing the number of flights from new york to italy was like watching a horrible train wreck in slow motion. Nobody was watching italy and europe at the time. No one was even thinking about it. Today, we must consider an outbreak anywhere is an outbreak everywhere. I think those are words to remember going forward. Outbreak in china in a number of days, it is going to be in europe. From europe, it is going to come to the United States assuming it did not come from the United States immediately from china. Another lesson to learn is our hospital system. We do not really have a Public Health system. We have a hospital system. We learned the hard way about the capacity, the equipment and the management of our hospital system. New york city, we have only 12 public hospitals. They are the health and hospitals corporations run by new york city. There are only 12 hospitals in that system. 44 hospitals are private institutions. They are regulated by the state, but they are private institutions. They have their own clientele. They are doing business as individual entities. We have a system of colleges, but each college is individual. Each hospital is an individual entity. Long island, we have four public hospitals. Westchester, one public hospital. 12 private shared rocklin, one public, two private. Rest of the state, two public hospitals. 87 private hospitals. Your Health Care Capacity in the state is in the hands of public hospitals. You have 176 private hospitals in the state. That is the capacity. But that means you have to now rely on those private hospitals, get them all to be part of one system, which day today, that is not happening. They are operating themselves. We have state regulations that say this is how much you must operate, but they operate as individual entities. In the middle of this outbreak, we had to go back and do what we call the surge and flex management system. We said to all private hospitals, we have to Work Together and manage this system as one. Maybe in the public system, they can share patients and doctors and staff. H h has 12 hospitals. You can share among your 12, but we have to get these 176 hospitals now all to Work Together even with the public hospital. Gettings were overwhelmed, so now you need a system to share patient capacity. Share equipment, share ventilators, share staff. That had never been done. We did this all basically onthefly. We put together a de facto Public Health system. It was a lot to do onthefly. We need to institutionalize these lessons. Part of what we have to learn is what happened with the equipment. This was a situation that nobody anticipated. It happened across the country. You could not get enough gallons. You cannot get enough gowns. We are going to put in a state requirement now that a hospital has to have a stockpile of all the ppe equipment they could need for a 90 day supply at the rate of usage we saw with this covid virus. Every hospital has to have a 90 day supply. We cannot go through this day to day moving masks all over the state. This mad scramble we were in. And still are in in many ways. As a nation, we cannot go through this again. There was Competition Among states, there was Competition Among private entities to get this equipment. The federal government was trying to buy it. I am bidding on behalf of new york. We are bidding against other states. Texas, california, other states across the country are trying to buy the same masks from the same vendor. I have people in china. I am trying to Contact People in china who can figure out how to buy masks from china. It was totally inefficient and ineffective. The state of Massachusetts Governor baker was able to work with robert kraft who had a personal airplane that he sent to get masks. Massachusetts was good enough to give us some of the masks that a private airplane picked up. This is not the way to deal with this situation. Plus, we drove up prices by our own competition. It was a limited supply. It was primarily in china. You have 50 states and all the private entities and the federal government trying to buy from china. It made no sense. So lets fix that. New york state alone buys about 2 billion of medical supplies this year. 2 billion this year. That is one state. That is us purchasing from china and around the world. We are going to form a consortium with our seven northeast partner states, which buy about 5 billion in supplies. That would increase our market power when we are buying. We will buy as a consortium for ppe equipment, ventilators, medical equipment, whatever we need to buy when you put all those hospitals together or all that Public Health capacity together, which will make us more competitive. I believe it will save taxpayer money. I also believe it will help us get the equipment because we have trouble still getting the equipment and just buying the equipment because these vendors on the other side, they are dealing with countries, they are dealing with the federal government. Why should they do business with one state when they can do business with an entire country . This consortium i think will help us get the equipment and get it at a better price. We will come up with a regional identification of all the equipment we need. It is all standard equipment. A mask is a mask. A gown is a gown. Lets come up with the total amount that we need. Lets stop doing business with vendors who we found to be irresponsible. We found out the hard way. I cannot tell you how many orders we placed with vendors who were acting basically as brokers who just started businesses in the middle of this pandemic because they sell an opportunity. Lets compare notes among the states to see who was good to do business with. Lets see if we cant do the purchasing in this country, and lets see if we cant do the purchasing in this region. Why are we buying all of this material from china . Literally billions of dollars of ppe. We will do it in coordination with the federal government. I want to thank our neighboring states. The word neighbor has a different connotation. You do not normally think of the surrounding states as neighbors. You think of the person nextdoor as a neighbor. But they are neighbors. They have acted as neighbors. I cannot tell you how supportive governor murphy in new jersey and governor lamont in connecticut and all the other governors in our coalition have been. You can pick up a phone and i can say, i need help with masks. You have any extra masks . Can i borrow this . Can i borrow that . Really, the way you would deal with a neighbor in an extraordinary circumstance. You would knock on the door and say, can i borrow this . That is how these states responded. It was a beautiful, generous way of operating that was an inspiration to me. It was not, i will have my lawyer call your lawyer. It was whatever i can do, i will do. In that spirit, we want to keep that coalition together. We are doing Regional Planning on the reopening. Every state is linked to every other state. We do something in new york, it affects new jersey, connecticut, delaware. People are very mobile. It is an important relationship for us both productively and from an efficiency point of view. And they have been great. They are joining us today. We have Governor Phil Murphy with us. Governor ned lamont. Governor tom wolf and governor john carney. We will start with our neighbor from the great state of new jersey. How are you, governor murphy . Governor murphy good to be on with you. I will be brief and say i echo everything you say. In terms of what this is like, the deficiencies as well as the inspiration, which we derive from our neighbors and beginning with you and all of the other governors today. It has been truly an inspiration. On behalf of the 9 million of us in new jersey, i say thank you. We are in the same boat. We are begging, borrowing, and bartering for equipment and ventilators etc. Someone said to me that gowns have become the new ventilators. We are still out there. The notion of coordinating together as a region sign new jersey up. This makes so much sense. As you suggested we coordinated , actively as we closed our governments. We have a Regional Council where we put not just the governors on today but massachusetts. This is a perfect extension of that relationship. Not only should we not have to be scouring the world for this, but it ought to be made in the usa or better yet made in our states. That is something we all want to strive for. Lastly, and you said this. Weve all got to do within our own four walls what we need to do. Regional cooperation matters so much. It is a brilliant example of our ongoing cooperation. [indiscernible] we have to do all of the above. What is good for our own citizens, what is good for the region and work closely with the federal government every step of the way. Thank you for having me on today. Thank you to you, Governor Cuomo. We look forward to working with you in the better days ahead. Gov. Cuomo thank you governor murphy. I think the governors on this phone, we have learned so much about ppe over the past few weeks. I think we can go make gowns ourselves at this point. Give us some sewing machines. I think we can actually contribute. Thank you very much, phil. God bless you. Stay well. Anything you need, we are here. We will go to governor lamont, great state of connecticut. Thank you very much for being with us. Thank you for all you have done, not just for the people of connecticut but for the entire northeast. Good to be with you. Governor lamont back at you. We got into this together and realized what we had to do when it came to closing down parts of our service economy. We did that together. We are opening it up together. That is the way it works best. As you point out when it comes , to the purchasing, we learned something. We can wait for the national stockpile. We can wait for the plane to land from china. Lets see what we can do ourselves. We are much stronger together. I wouldnt mind having some of that new york purchasing power, thank you for sharing that with connecticut. And just as importantly what we , can produce together. Phil murphy, you have the amazing Pharmaceuticals Industry and in new jersey. Help us out with the reagents and what we can do with the gowns, being produced in rhode island. Lets see what we can do together to make sure this next round, we control more of our own destiny. To those who say you are ordering up all of the Christmas Trees and they are going to arrive on december 26, im saying im afraid this is still just the beginning, as you pointed out, Governor Cuomo. We are planning for the next round of this, making sure we can control our own destiny going forward. We will do it much better together. Thank you for getting us together, andrew. Gov. Cuomo thank you very much. You are right. We are spending billions of dollars, why not buy from our own vendors in our own region . Why are we buying from china . Right . Im sure there are a lot of own businesses within our own state that if they knew they had that kind of purchasing, that they were looking at, that they would either adopt their business or grow their business so we could buy from them. Plus, you are right we would control our own destiny rather than everyone trying to figure out how to buy from china. Thank you, governor lamont. God bless you. We are here. Thank you. Lets go to Governor Wolf from pennsylvania. Good to be with you, tom. Thank you very much for everything you have been doing. Thank you for being a great neighbor to the state of new york and all your surrounding states. Gov. Wolf thank you very much for organizing this. A few weeks ago, we all got together and announced we were going to Work Together to fight this pandemic. We said then that by working together, we can do a lot more than we can do if each of us works on our own. I think today is a specific example of that. We can Work Together to buy the things we need to allow our Health Care System to have the capacity it needs to fight this fight. We need to help our hospitals, we need to help our health care workers, our longterm care facilities, our first responders, all of those things. And what you are doing here and what we are doing is pulling together to make sure we are doing all of those things. Part of this is testing. Its not just the equipment. We really need to Work Together to build the capacity to test or we are not going to be able to give our citizens the confidence they need to go back to work. They are not going to have the confidence we need them to have to go back to school or back to the store or back to worship. All those things are really important and by working together, we can pull our pool our financial resources. Thats important and significant. We can actually pool the brainpower that exists, the great institutions in our areas and the manufacturers who can make this stuff, all of that, we can pull together and if we can do that, even with something as difficult as testing, i think we are going to make sure we get through this in the best possible way. Thank you for pulling this together. This is really important and im proud to be with you. Gov. Cuomo you are so right. Thank you, Governor Wolf. In some ways we are creating new industries. Who ever heard of the Testing Industry or tracing industry or these reagents that all of these tests now use . Even the demand on ppe, this is a whole new world for all of us. But there is also an Economic Opportunity in it and we should take advantage of it because we need it and its not going away. Its going to be a major industry going forward, so lets make sure it happens here. Thank you, tom, for all the help and thank you for everything you are doing. You are an inspiration to all of us. Thank you, tom. We have governor john cornyn john carney with us from delaware. Thank you for being with us and thank you for all the support and help and thank you for the friendship through all of this, which is also very important. Just the personal support is important as we are going through this as colleagues. Thank you for being with us today. Gov. Carney thank you, Governor Cuomo, for including delaware in this coalition and thank you for your leadership in the state of new york, particularly metro new york city with your colleague governors on either side of you. You are an inspiration to all of us. Our hearts go out to you as we see the numbers. I was happy to see your numbers on the chart at the beginning of your Conference Today as they trend downward. That is really a very good and positive thing. Thanks for including us we like to refer to us as a state of neighbors. There are just shy of one million delawareans here on the southern end of this side of i95 and the amtrak northeast corridor which connects all of us. The governors at the bottom of my screen are great partners, Governor Wolf and governor murphy, on either side of the state of delaware are important, our coordination and collaboration. This initiative, with respect to purchasing together, ppe and most importantly, as Governor Wolf mentioned, the testing equipment and capacity is so incredibly important for a small state like ours, to have the purchasing power, Governor Cuomo of new york, and new jersey and connecticut, pennsylvania and massachusetts and rhode island its so incredibly important for us in terms of getting the right pricing. If we are going headtohead with new york, we are not going to get it. If we are shoulder to shoulder with you and governor murphy and Governor Wolf, weve got a good chance of getting a better price and getting the product we need and i think through all of this, the other thing that was interesting to me in winning the in joining the coalition was all the assets the other states can bring to the table in terms of intellectual capacity, research institutions, your hospitals. We know there are going to be breakthroughs in testing and other kinds of technology that help us as we respond to this. So i couldnt be happier to be part of this coalition, to be part of your leadership team, Governor Cuomo, with again, my two neighbors here in the southern end of our coalition and to each of you, thanks for the great work you are providing to the citizens. I tell people all the time that its going to be way harder, the decisions we have to make in reopening our economies in phases, than it was shutting things down, in my view, just because of the balance we need to strike. We will do that working together with the expertise of this coalition and the purchasing power in particular this initiative will bring to the state of delaware. So thanks very much. Gov. Cuomo thank you, governor carney. Governor carney is right, its easier to shut down than it will to be reopening. Shutting down was, you walk to the basement, you take the power switch and you go from on to off. There was an urgent need, it was an emergency. Reopening is more of an art form and i thank my gubernatorial colleagues for doing this together. We also have the governor of rhode island and governor baker from massachusetts who are part of the coalition. You go through situations in life which are unexpected ok, you do your best and then you learn from them and you grow. That is what we are trying to do here today. Because people expect more from government than ever before. I believe this has been transformative for a generation. Think about, when was the last time government was this vital . I dont know. Maybe in a war . World war ii, when government had to mobilize overnight . But literally for decades, you havent seen government this essential to human life, literally. Government has to work and it has to work well and its not for the faint of heart. People want government to perform and government is making decisions every day that affect their lives and they deserve the best government. They are paying for it, they deserve it and they deserve competence and expertise and smarts and for government to be doing Creative Things and learning like we are doing today. At the same time, government is working, we are trying our best, we are working seven days a week, 24 hours a day, we are doing a lot of good work, a lot of creative work. But this is not just about government. Its too easy to point fingers. This one has to do that, this one has to do that. Every person has a part in this. Every person has a part. Driving around new york city today, and i was here yesterday, we are all very thankful to our health care heroes, our frontline workers, our essential workers. You watch television and there are all of these nice commercials, thank everyone for what they did and we should. Nurses, doctors, transit workers, police officers, god bless them. But if you really want to say thank you, make their life easier by not getting sick. And not making someone else sick. An individuals role is act responsibly and intelligently for yourself, for your family, and for your community. Wear a mask. Wear a mask. That is the basic step, right . Social distance, you cant if you cant socially distance, you are in new york city, youre going to walk up next to a person, wear a mask. Its not the most attractive garment ever created. So what . Well i dont like it feels uncomfortable, unnatural. So what . You want to honor the healthcare workers and the people who literally gave their lives in some cases for what they did here . Act responsibly. Wear a mask. I know the weather is getting warmer and i know people want to get out of their house. Fine. Wear a mask and socially distance. That is your social responsibility in the middle of this overall pandemic. When we talk about new yorkers together and this spirit of unity and how people are helping one another and how tough we are and how smart we are and how disciplined we are and how we love one another show it. You know how you show love . By wearing a mask. Please. Questions . When you talked about a different strain being here coming from europe, is it a more deadly strain . Is there reason to believe that because the death toll was so much higher here than other places . Gov. Cuomo i dont know. Some have said that. Its not my field. But they said it, 2 totally different strains. Ive heard from some medical professionals that our strain was actually more virulent than a strain that came from china, whatever the mutation was that happened in europe made our strain more virulent. Once it comes to new york, and again, nobody was anticipating the european connection. People from italy, nobody was saying watch out for those people from italy. They were just walking through our airports. We had the federal officials at all of our airports and they were doing screening they were screening people from china. Nobody was screening people from europe and the european travel ban did not go until march, midmarch we didnt do a full european travel ban. So they were coming, nobody was screening, nobody was testing, nobody was looking, nobody knew to look. Wherever they came in new york, nobody was on notice. Nobody said watch for people from italy, watch for people from ireland and the u. K. It was just we were totally unaware and then apparently its a different strain. Once it gets to new york, now you have that density in new york. Density is the enemy here. Dense housing, dense transportation, dense sidewalks. In that density, it takes off like a fire through dry grass and then it spreads to new jersey, connecticut, that whole area. But especially since nobody knew. Nobody knew. We were doing this every day. Nobody ever talked about transmission through europe. I have a mask. Gov. Cuomo i can see your eyes. [laughter] you talk about the road to recovery and reopening as being an art form. Your fellow governor feel the same way. How much of this is based on some personal observation for the last couple of days and got and gut instinct as opposed to the numbers and benchmarks you say are so important . Gov. Cuomo good question. First, follow the data. I believe you can do this as a science. Is it science or is it art . Lets say its a combination. But drive it as a science. Do it by the numbers. We are calculating the spread of the virus. Thats a mathematical equation. And the more you open, the higher the rate of infection will spread. That is inarguable. The question is how much does it spread . How fast does it spread . How fast is it spreading compared to your Health Care Capacity . Thats the formula. You can plug numbers into that formula and that is what we are doing. Thats the rate of transmission. We want to keep the rate of transmission below 1. 1. We are now at about 0. 7, so we have a margin of error, 0. 71. 1. Over 1. 1, you are in epidemic status. Part of it is this mathematical formula. That is what we are trying to educate our local government about. You want to open your region or your city or your county . When will the state reopen my region . Heres the formula. Plug the numbers in and look at what the formula says. That is the science of it. And with all this political talk and all these political opinions i like to stress the science because it belies the politics and the emotion. Look at the numbers. Look at the numbers. The artform is look, ive been in the federal government, i have been in state government, i was the attorney general, i did emergencies in the federal government all across the nation, all across the world. Bring in an educated gut, because i have gone through this before. But educated guts plus, sick stick to the science, stick to the numbers. What does your gut tell you at the moment . Gov. Cuomo my gut says the weather is going to warm, people are bored, people want this over, they see the numbers go down and they take false comfort. Its going down, that means its over. No. We never said its over, we said the numbers are going down. We said roughly a thousand new people every day walk into the hospitals. Oh no, its basically over. No. I hear other states are reopening . No. We are not out of the woods. We are in this very dense environment and you can see this virus pick up dramatically. And it is not going down. There is no it. We are bringing it down. That number was going like this. The only reason the number is now going like this is because new yorkers grabbed that projection curve with two hands and pulled it down. That is why it went like this. You go back to your old behavior, that number goes right back up. And its warm and you want to get out of the house and everybody is antsy and im worried about my job. But a big caution sign to me. Lets watch the numbers. The numbers are going down. But we are a very dense environment. We have had more cases. We almost overwhelmed the whole health system. So caution moving forward. And look. How people cannot wear masks, that to me is disrespectful. It is disrespectful. Its disrespectful to the nurses, the doctors, the people who have been frontline workers, you wear the mask not for yourself, you wear the mask for me. Its a sign of respect to other people. And you make me sick, that is disrespectful. I have to go to the hospital, have to call an ambulance, thats an ambulance driver. I have to go and thats a nurse, that is a doctor who has to put on ppe that somebody has to pay for, they have to risk being exposed to the virus because you wouldnt wear a mask . Because you wouldnt wear a mask . You put so many people at risk because you didnt want to wear a mask . I think thats disrespectful by you. It is disrespectful of your relationship and obligation to one another. Yes, we are all individuals. We are individuals who live in a community in the middle of a Global Pandemic. Just be responsible and show respect. I dont think thats too much for each of us to ask of one another. Thats a basic common decency in this situation. Governor, there are media reports from yesterday and weve seen a lot of people going to central park, the beaches of coney island, spaces all over the city. Is there enough enforcement of social distancing and is it safe so long as people wear masks and keep a little space for people to linger sometimes all afternoon at parks across the city . Gov. Cuomo ideally, if you are protecting yourselves and your loved ones if you are a member of a vulnerable population, the idea is to stay indoors. No doubt. However, you cant stay indoors forever and the weather is nice. Getting outside, getting some exercise, getting fresh air is good. Staying socially distant and wearing a mask are basic precautions that should keep you safe. Not as good as staying in the house, but should keep you safe. That assumes people around you are wearing masks, people around you are acting responsibly, so its not even a situation you can control yourself. What happens to you is dependent on what i do and how i act. I dont wear a mask, i sneeze on a park bench, you walk up two minutes later and sit on the park bench or walk up half an hour later, maybe and sit on the park bench. You put your hand down and then you wipe your face. Now you have a problem because of me. That is why the mask wearing. On the local enforcement, i know new york city, mayor de blasio has made a real effort. I said to all the local government heads, and force it. Enforce it. Because its not only wrong, a Public Health risk, its such a little thing to ask of people and at a time when people are doing so much, with the transit workers yesterday, going train to train disinfecting, getting on their hands and knees in hazmat, blowing disinfectant on the seat and wiping it all down people doing unprecedented work and you cant even wear a mask . No. Is a few dozen summonses enough . Thats what the nypd commissioner said, summonses issued yesterday. Is that commensurate with the level of need to social distance . Gov. Cuomo we have said this from day one. We are in new york state and we are also operating in the state of reality. Will you ever get 19 Million People to comply because you give them a summons . No. They will comply because they know the facts and because they choose and deem that it is intelligent and reasonable to comply. That is how i started this from day one. I could have done a closedown order and new yorkers could have said that with no words and just not complied with it and then what would i do . Run around giving summonses . It wouldnt work. Went through all the facts, explained why. Then we closed it down and people complied. It will be the same with masks and personal behavior. This is a new level of personal behavior now. That we are asking people to undertake. I think they will get it. Its not going to happen because of Law Enforcement, but Law Enforcement has a role. But i think they have to understand it, and they have to get it. And i think if new yorkers you know, the best enforcers of social behavior are other new yorkers. I think if new yorkers get it, you walk down the street without a mask, i think other new yorkers are going to let you know. As long as they let you do that as long as they do that within the bounds of decorum, i dont think thats a bad thing. You talked about lessons learned. Is there something to be learned here regarding equipment and ppe being manufactured overseas and would you say maybe its time to rethink mobilization policies in globalization policies in the direction this country has been going in for the last 30 years . Gov. Cuomo i dont know that you have to go to globalization policy. You are not going to change the macroeconomic forces, but i think there is a lesson to learn and what we are trying to actually deliver on. This is an emergency service. In a snowstorm, you have to be able to get salt and have snowplows. In a hurricane, you have to have pumps. In a Public Health emergency, you have to have ppe. I mean, nothing works unless step one is, you have to have ppe. That we have to go to china for the ppe, think about that. You couldnt even get it in this nation. We started making our own in the state, but that is a National Security issue to me. You have to be able to get masks and gowns and whatever medical equipment you need so this nation can run in the middle of an emergency. Forget the macroeconomics, just from a National Security point of view, i think yes, you have to be able to do that. You cant be dependent on china to have the basic equipment to save lives in the United States. That is what this came down to. Think about that robert kraft, god bless him, owns the new England Patriots, new England Patriots havent done new yorkers a lot of favors over the years, but great sports team. But robert kraft has to send a private plane to china to pick up masks for massachusetts . Thats how we handle a Global Pandemic . I have to call mr. Kraft and say can you do me a favor, governor baker, as long as the plane is going, can you pick up some masks for me . Thats how that happened. Right . Two major states in the middle of a pandemic robert kraft is sending a plane . You guys want to comment on anything . I would just add on your point when you asked about the higher cases in new york and the west coast and the very limit the virulent stream, there are mixed reviews out there. But its important to remember that the travel ban here did not happen until march 16 when they closed it down to most of europe. It included the u. K. Whereas, they did asia will travel ban at the end of january, so those flights go to the west coast and the flights from europe come to newark and new york. Gov. Cuomo look at the variance. The end of january, he does the china travel ban. You dont do the u. K. Travel ban to the middle of march. The end of january to the middle of march. The virus was not hanging out in china waiting for you during that time. January, you got on a plane, you went to europe and then spread in europe and from january to midmarch, it was coming from europe right here. On top of that, there was this false sense of security in that the cdc was doing this testing and they were saying theres no cases in new york, but the people they were testing, they were testing a select few coming off planes from their hotspot doesnt designated regions, then they were letting everybody else come through the front door without doing temperature checks, without checking to see if they were demonstrating symptoms you would have, and in retrospect, what did everyone think was going to happen . According to the New York Times reported last week, there were 10,700 cases here in february, they think. Subway closures come are there benchmarks you are looking at for when you might do overnight Subway Service again . What would the overnight Subway Service return look like . Gov. Cuomo Subway Service will return when the pandemic ends. You tell me when the pandemic ends and i will tell you when it resumes. For that, look. We dont really have a choice, in truth. Most of these issues, we dont have a choice. You do what you have to do. We didnt have a choice whether or not we bought ppe from china. We dont have a choice whether or not we disinfect the trains. I am so grateful to the front line who show up every day. Think about what we did here. We had to explain to new yorkers how vicious this virus was sos they would actually honor the closedown. The next sentence out of my mouth is yes, its vicious, we need to close down, the next is we need essential workers to come to work tomorrow morning. But you just said it was a vicious virus and i should stay home, but now essential workers have to come to work . Yes. We need people to run the buses and the trains and we need the nurses and doctors and we need food on the shelves. You want to see things go bad in a hurry . No food on the shelves. No electric power. You want to see panic and anarchy . You needed those essential workers. God bless them. We still need them. But at a minimum, we are talking about respect, where a mask, they use Public Transit. Im not going to ask them to come to work to get on Public Transit, unless we know Public Transit is safe. And safe in this case means clean. We talk about the density as a spreader, that is true. But also, Public Transit, if it is not clean, can spread. One of the surfaces the virus lives longest on his stainless steel. You look at all those subway pulls poles, you have to clean the cars. I am grateful to the frontline workers for coming out. They need Public Transit. We owe it to them that it is safe and clean. To do that, you have to close it down from 1 005 00 a. M. The first time it ever closedown, yes. But also, 92 reduction in ridership so your ridership is down to 8 . 1 005 00 a. M. Is the lowest timeframe for ridership so people will work in the middle of the night to clean the trains, but it is the least for the essential workers and for anyone. We have to be able to say, our Public Transit system is safe and it is clean. Especially getting ready, planning to reopen, you cannot do anything without a Public Transit system that people have confidence in. Knowing that it is clean and they know how to disinfect it and they have been disinfecting it, that is vital to confidence in new york, right . Which is a big factor we have to put in the equation. Confidence and comfort with the situation in new york, in the midst of this pandemic. Are you confident President Trump is still moving ahead with his offer of gloves and the other things you need, the promise of a certain set of the population testing . Or is the multistate consortium instilling the confidence you go gov. Cuomo whatever the federal government can do to help is great. But this is also an ongoing situation. I dont want to just say i will wait for the help from the federal government. Whatever help they give us is great, but it is also clear from the federal government that it is up to governors, up to governors, up to governors. Whatever we can do on our own, so we are not reliant on anyone, that is the best. Thanks, guys. Wear a mask. In case you didnt get the message. [laughter] thank you. Done security checks in your office or mirrors of congress dont know how to practice good cyber hygiene. Overseasn two trips a travel phone not associated with me. You never know when you plug that phone it if its going to charge or what might get loaded on it, who might come in contact with it, so thats one of the steps that i take. The virginia representative on the steps she takes to safeguard her Capitol Hill Office in congress. Watch monday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Cspan has aroundtheclock coverage to the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, and it is all available on demand at cspan. Org coronavirus. Watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials, track the spread throughout the u. S. And the world with interactive maps. Watch ondemand anytime, unfiltered, at cspan. Org coronavirus. From the sunday news programs, we will hear from to governors with different plans for reopening their states. Secretary of state mike pompeo chinas role in the spread of the virus. First we hear from dr. Deborah birx, a member of the Coronavirus Task force