To take itot be able soon. New york times on the president s comments. The woman on my right needs no introduction. Right, the department of Health Communicable disease medical service director. Honor to be here. The superintendent of the state police. Office ofor of the Homeland Security is with us. Counsel will join us shortly. Before i get to the daily numbers, a couple of announcements and updates. Good videoconference with the white house yesterday that had a particular focus on Mental Health and the implications to Mental Health from this pandemic crisis. Good discussion and exchange. I should also say that while it was not the purpose for the call, tony fauci was in the room on the other end. Expressingly caution, and i felt his comments on the early returns on the vaccine reported yesterday were actually pretty upbeat relative to his normal demeanor. That was a big take away. I organized a call for about 16 democratic governors and Speaker Pelosi to go through her heroes directich includes federal cash assistance for states and counties and municipalities in addition to other elements we have endorsed. Wade may have been a month the first to endorse a moratorium on salt cap onof the property taxes. We spoke as well about senator bill ins significant the senate. He has picked up some cosponsors. On the republican side of the aisle, it is a positive development. It was a really good conversation. I want to thank the speaker especially. Those are a couple of good conversations we had after we were together last. As we have been discussing over the past couple of weeks, our ability to get on and stay on relies heavily on having an expanded and Accessible Program of testing. I know judy is not to speak to the demand side of testing. This means we will grow our internal programs and will need partners in the private sector as well to help meet this demand. We have authorized more than 18,000 licensed pharmacists in new jersey to administer fda authorized covid19 tests to their customers. Orders for these tests to be prescription and enter into explicit collaborative practice agreement with a physician. Across our state, there are more pharmacies. These pharmacies are run by professionals with trust and connection to their broader communities. Feel most comfortable to receive a covid19 test in a place they trust from a pharmacist they know. Note, we can follow up on our prior announcement of the plans by cvs to provide covid19 testing at their stores. As our administration continues to rapidly expand testing sites, proud to announce that cvs has notified us that they are set to offer itself swab tests at a minimum of 50 locations in new jersey. This is just about 11 days from now. This is another important step forward as we build Testing Capacity in our state. We hope to formally announce the launch of the first stores to come online with this program, and we thank them for their support of our effort to get us on the road back. We have been working with a number of partners to bring more sites of throughout the state. The department of health along with the division of consumer affairs, and judy previewed this yesterday, has issued binding guidance that will allow for the resumption of elective and nonurgent medical and dental procedures beginning one week from today. This guidance covers a number of areas for safeguarding both patients and providers. This includes prioritization of procedures, heightened sanitation and disinfectant standards and ensuring patients are scheduled in a way that minimizes interpersonal contact and ensuring social distancing in the lead up to the procedure and the wearing of Face Coverings were masks during certain procedures among other , including direct contact with the eyes or mouth. I am pleased with this guidance. I know judy is more than pleased. We are confident our medical and dental professionals will be able to get back to attending to their patients in a safe way. We are issuing an administrative order today to allow for in person sales at car and motorcycle dealerships in addition to bicycle shops that will be effective at 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow. We know this is an important step for dealerships and people who need access to transportation. It is unquestionably another step forward on our road back. Announcements out of the way, lets turn to the overnight numbers. Yesterday, we received an positive test5 results for a current statewide total of 139,014. Continues to move in the right direction overall. We must remain mindful that because of the way test results come in, we will continue to have up and down days. These trendlines are our most accurate depiction of these numbers. Rate for positivity the test now that were taken as of friday, may 15, remains at 12 . Rate isitivity reflected across each region of the state. South jersey remains higher than the rest of the state as is expected. Map that we have been regularly turning to puts this in a slightly different perspective. Cumberland county and the only county below the 30 day rate of doubling is at exactly 30 days. Everyone watching from cumberland county, please redouble your efforts. A slight regression, but it looks better than it did a few weeks ago. Looking at longterm care facilities, you can see the total number of positive cases. The rate of new cases has decreased from its peak. We continue to throw everything but the kitchen sink at longterm care facilities to push this curve even lower. The next one is the one i want to spend a minute on. Here are the numbers of Lab Confirmed deaths associated with longterm care facilities, which shows a decrease from the peak. Starting today, we are showing only the numbers of Lab Confirmed deaths, as this would give us our best representation of what is happening within our longterm care facilities in comparison to the statewide number that we report. Im going to practice without a license, but perhaps in answer to a question, you may want to weigh in on this. 1400umber was about fatalities higher as of yesterday. That is information that will continue these folks are gone. There is no question that longterm care no question i lom care facilities have been an extraordinarily, challenging reality, not just in new jersey but around the country. We were not reporting these apples to apples the other 1400 no longer in the chart were not confirmed Lab Confirmed covid19 fatalities. Thenumber we report is statewide number, Lab Confirmed fatalities. To give you an apples to oranges number. If there is information you want about those other 14 blessed ls, we are more than happy more than happy does not express it because we are not happy about this, but we are able to give you a window into that. Another point i want to make is that from now, many weeks, if anything, revisions will go up. Practicing i am practicing without a license, but maybe ed can comment on this. Do you want to comment on the rationale as to why where we why we are where we are . Once again, it always seems counting deaths should be a simple thing. If the person died, they died. If you are in a nursing home, you should be able to accurately report those numbers. What happens with the outbreak, there are a number of facilities that go thats got overwhelmed facility. Unfortunately, a lot of deaths, and quickly not only overwhelmed the facilities in their ability to respond but report accurately on what was happening in them and the departments ability to follow up on that information to get the most Accurate Information as possible. As it is now, we are following over 500 of these outbreaks on an ongoing basis and it is extremely difficult to get as Accurate Information as we can. What we have done in the last week to two weeks in presenting now is we change the way we are getting the information. We try to make it easy and clear on what we are asking as far as putting in a survey from them. While these are still reported by the facilities themselves, ning certainly, as you become comfortable and confident in the numbers, we could share those numbers and be happy to answer those questions about that. Thank you. So far, the past two days this week, we have changed our nomenclature on two different numbers. One of which is good news. It is unvarnished good news. And you take the serology tests , do you have covid19 as of last thursday or friday, and those are the numbers informing our reopening strategies, versus you may have had it over the past three months. That knocks the relevant positivity right down to 12 . Helpful,eal and really and a positive step in the right direction. There ares no longer gone. There are 1400 folks who have passed in addition to this laber, which is not yet confirmed and we dont in any way shape or form marginalize the loss of life. We want to make sure we are apples to apples. Ed, thank you for that. That insight. In the hospitals, number of the number of patients that currently are being treated decreased. Feel medical stations reported 44 patients. This is a breakdown of hospitalizations across regions and continues to go in the right direction. Here are total hospitalizations. For everys 100,000 resident residents, the number of people in intensive care fell. It is the first number it fell below 1000 in a long time. Cant emphasize enough how important hospitalization, icu, and ventilator numbers are to our thinking of the road back there, perhaps the most vital data points we received. There were 170 three new covid19 hospitalizations yesterday, and at the same time, 161 live patients left our hospitals. And are the admittance discharge numbers from yesterday, broken down by region. As judy warned us, this was from northcentral to south, but even though even the north is not out of the woods. Higher numbers both incoming and outgoing. I know we say this tactically everyday but it is true. These numbers are not happening by accident. They are happening because you made them happen. The only surefire care for covid19 is to not get it, meaning maintaining social distancing, wearing a Face Covering of some sort, practicing safe hygiene. The reason these numbers keep falling and why we are able, practically every day, to make another announcement about the road back is because you are making the fall. Keep it up. This is no time for anyone to be spiking any footballs or patting things on the back, both that would not comply with social distancing anyway, but it is a time to double down. The more these numbers drop, the more confidence we will have that we are ready to move from stage one stage two of our restart and can plan for business reopenings. We purposely have not married ourselves to dates, because we dont want to give false hope. We have purposely married ourselves to the data, so when we make an announcement, we know it can stick. Lets look quickly at the graphs we have been showing you recently. The metrics in our hospitals are down since the peak. Every major thing we are watching is going in the right direction. Acrosstheboard, key numbers are down by half if not far more. Has been a steady progression over the past few weeks. This is the last 14 days, and seeing these trends are critical. A green light means the days decrease relative to the day before. We have a lot of green lately. You can see this by region. Judy and i smoke spoke to this yesterday. There are spikes up and down, which is why we look at rolling averages of three or seven days. The new hospitalizations numbers are things we are still looking at. Those are the red balls. There are a fair amount of them in the upper left. While this really Good Progress in that chart, there are still o the coming int hospital. Here, we can see ourselves relative to the neighboring states. This is new jersey, per capita, new cases, patients in the hospital, new deaths per 100,000 residents in each case, and we are still at or near the top. Top of density of every american state. Everybody, keep it up, because you are the reason we have made the progress. You are the biggest reason that chart will ultimately get into a much better condition. Remember Public Health creates economic health, and data determines dates. Only you all and you have been extraordinary by the way can make that happen. With a heavy heart today, we report another 162 blessed souls we have lost from covid19. This, our statewide total stands at 10,586. That is a total number, and those are Lab Confirmed fatalities. Which is why we have wanted to make sure we have the apples to apples comparison of these blessed souls we have lost, whether in longterm care facilities or elsewhere. As we do every day, lets remember some of these blessed lives. We begin today by remembering Donnie Nicholson barrett, on the left, who gave 33 years of her professional life to the people of essex county as part of the county essex Prosecutors Office. Ae majority of that time as clerical supervisor in the special victims unit. I had a conversation with ted stevens about the donnie, who was quite an individual. As was known to many simply move donnie, the undisputed matriarch of the office with a tremendous laugh and power of unconditional love, who helped raise generations of assisted prosecutors, investigative staff , and clerical workers. The essex county special victims the is located within winona house Child Advocacy center, and she was just as revered by that step as well. Staff as well. With her, no one was a stranger. Everyone got a birthday card, but only the true lucky got a nickname from miss donnie. Fittingly, she was born on, cant make this up, valentines day, 58 years ago. Importantly, she was a woman of faith who lived her face every at and was a deaconess Shiloh Baptist church. I spoke to shilohs pastor this , and we each commiserated about how special donnie was. She leaves behind her beloved husband right there with her, also a deacon, Michael Douglas barrett, with whom i had the great honor of speaking yesterday. Their children and her sister gloria. She is now reunited with another son greg, who she had lost but has now found. May god bless her and all of those who loved and worked alongside of her. She was a tremendous presence in the lives of many, and i know her memory will remain with them all. Go to kearny in Hudson County. For paul and dolores, otherwise known as liz mccurry. They were each 91 years old, and had been married for more than 60 of those years. They each passed from covid19 within days of each other. Liz, three days before paul. He could havee played james bond in his youth with that tux edo. Paul was born and raised in kearny and served in the United States navy from 1954 to 1958. Returning home, he returned to school and graduated from the rockers school of law. He was serve in a number of ,apacities in his hometown attorneys among them. From 1962 and 1964, he was elected did to represent Hudson County in the general assembly. He was part of the Hudson County Bar Association and west hudson Bar Association, as well as a trusteetee as of a scholarship committee. Liz, on the left there, what an incredibly handsome couple, was born to kearny to a in kearny to a single mom who worked through the Great Depression to provide through her daughter for her daughter. She is a student at Bloomfield High School and made a group of friends with whom she would remain close the remainder of her life. Liz would become deeply involved civil life in her own life. She was a member of the father washington club, friends of aaron, women club of arlington, and a social member of the arlington players club. Paul and dolores found their true calling with each other. They met through mutual friends while paul was a young attorney and liz was a secretary in. Rudential i newark their daughter of susan, a kearny councilwoman and leader in her own right, recounts how they love to dance together. Susan said, they were always a couple. Always together. It is difficult to picture one without the other. Sadly, they remain a couple in their passing. They leave behind not only susan but their sons, thomas and stephen mccurry. Stevens wife margaret and their grandson patrick, and they also lead countless friends. Thomas is in los angeles. Why did he go to los angeles . His mom was a huge fan of mute movie musicals, and he went to los angeles where he is a screenwriter. I couldnt help but ask what moms Favorite Movie musical was , singing in the rain. I also want to give a shout out to young patrick, who wondered when he heard of the passing of his beloved grandparents, whether i and we would speak about his grammy and pappy. I hope you are watching because were doing just that. Susan recounted one of her dads favorite expressions was one he picked up in the navy. He would say this when things didnt go according to plan, and it was, well, lets just press on. So we will press on with paul and liz in our thoughts, and prayers. May god bless them both and their family. Three more tremendous memb ers of our family. Our flags remain at halfstaff. While their families cannot fully gather in morning, we as a state can ensure these lives are not and never forgotten. Even as we mourn, we know there are other stories, truly new jersey stories just beginning. These are the stories of hope for our future, and the stories that tell us, in clear terms, that we will get through this and come out stronger than ever before. I would like, with your blessing, to close it. Please meet jacqueline and sebastian. Freeholdwas to be the theles wedding day, but celebration they planned could not go on, so they made other plans. They turned what was to be a celebration of their love into a celebration of support for their community. Ring, you willis be fed, asking friends and family to donate food for fulfill new jersey, run by our good friend, which helps ensure families in monmouth and ocean counties have food for their tables. On saturday, what would have been wedding day, local Police Escorted more than 50 cars sebastiansn and house, where they collected food and other donations where and im sure many well wishes. I had the honor of speaking separately to each of them this morning. They set a new wedding date on october 10, in shadow broke. She asked me to invite the entire state. Thats not true, but they did set a new date in october. They will continue to accept donations right up until they tie the knot. To each of them, we cannot thank you enough. To all of you out there, lets beat this thing there, lets continue doing what we are doing. Lets piece that beat this thing. Judy. Hat, thank you, governor and good afternoon. The first step in containing testing. s it will help us determine the spread of the disease, help us save lives, and help us determine needs of Contact Tracing and needs for beds for isolation or quarantine. Right now, there are more than 140 locations in the state. Gettate where you can tested. We prioritize testing for vulnerable populations and seasonal farmworkers. And, the frontline populations such as healthcare care workers and first responders. Also, individuals in densely populated cities. Testing is vital to slowing the spread of covid19. If we are able to identify positive cases quickly, we can trace contacts and take the necessary publichealth actions to protect everyone. I want to encourage our health care workers, first responders, and all vulnerable populations to get tested. Although you may not have symptoms, it is possible to have the virus and spread it to others, including people you love the most. Additionally, if an individual was exposed to someone with covid19, they should get tested, even if they do not have symptoms. Toare working with partners make testing easier to access. With our federally qualified health centers, we are exploring the use of mobile vans to reach homeless and underserved residents. Uperal cities have set drivethrough or walkup testing centers. We plan to work with elizabeth, trenton, camden, patterson, atlantic city, and york to increase the testing inner cities. If you think you were exposed, please ensure you get tested. Call covid19. Nj. Gov, or 211 to find a testing location near you. Ourhe governor shared, hospitals reported 3481 hospitalizations with 977 individuals in Critical Care. This is the first time our Critical Care has number Critical Care number has dropped below 1000 since the beginning of a a a a a 81 of those Critical Care patients are on ventilators. Cases we are reporting 12 of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. There are no deaths reported. The ages of the children affected range from three to 18. Nine out of 12 have tested and threeor covid19, are currently still hospitalized. The governor reviewed the new cases and deaths today. Today, we are reporting the confirmation of a death of a 22yearold. We are still gathering more information and more details. I do not have an indication of underlying conditions at this point in time. In terms of deaths, the breakdown of deaths by race and ethnicity is as follows. White, 53. 5 black, 18. 5 his panic, 19. 2 asian, 5. 5 other, 3. 4 at the state Veterans Home among have testedidents positive and a total of 142 deaths have occurred. Havesychiatric hospitals the same statistics as yesterday for a total of 13 patient deaths. Positivity asent of the date of may 15 for new jersey overall was 12 . In the northern part of the state it was 10 . The central part of the state, 11 . The south, 20 . That concludes my statistical report. As always, stay connected, stay safe, and stay healthy. Thank you. Gov. Murphy judy, a couple of quick comments. The Positivity Rate in the south may being higher surprises me because of the migration in the relative time on the ground. Secondly, just to repeat, we have not said this in a while, are79. 4 of the fatalities folks 65 years and older. We still have one blessed fatality under the age of 18. That is the fouryearold that judy reported a short while ago. 45 out of the 10,586 who are in the range of 18 to 29. , i think judy and i felt strongly in our call earlier that is becoming an unusual reality. When someone in that range rage passes, we want you to hear about that. I cannot thank you enough for your extraordinary leadership in the most challenging of circumstances. As good as it gets, not just in this state, but in any state in america. To you and your extraordinary team, judy, thank you. Not just publicly and privately, not just this day, but every day. Now i want to turn it over to , other pat callahan infrastructure ppe, etc. Col. Calahan good afternoon. With regard to last night, compliance in hillsboro was cited for a violation. In aberdeen, Police Responded to a Domestic Violence call. And while existing resisting arrest, the subject spit on the officers. A Clothing Store order was cited as a nonessential store being opened. Forgym owners were cited violations for having the gym open. In jackson, Police Responded to a store where a subject was refusing to put a mask on. Ultimately, they tried to arrest him, wrestled him. Resisting,ged with and while being arrested he spit on the officers and said he was positive. In patterson, four persons were told to disperse in a large gathering. Owner in belmar was cited again today. The Belmar Police department and Prosecutors Office are looking into whether additional charges against the patrons are going to be filed. But beyond that, governor, as paul would say, pressing on. Gov. Murphy i love that. I love that. Lets quote paul. Just give us a second. Dan, where are you . Tomorrow, unless we hear otherwise, 1 00 . I think we are going to do friday, out of respect for the memorial day weekend, we will probably do it earlier. Thursday is always subject to a potential white house. Matt has joined us, good to have you here. You saw what we did with car sales. That is effective tomorrow morning. You should just assume that we are constantly working with a whole range of decisions. Just know that is the case. Noon, andk morning, night about nonessential retail, about dining, about graduations. I repeat what i said yesterday. If there is hope out there that in some form, folks at some point in the future, not crazy distant future, can gather for graduations, if you have got that hope, i have that hope as well. We get asked about faith all the time, rightfully, by the way, across all faiths. As i said, our nonessential retail. The car, motorcycle, bike reality, that is a model we look at that might have some likes for other types of venues. To be determined. I just want to make sure that Everybody Knows that we are constantly working on this. But inside, lacking in ventilation, sedentary, and close proximity, those are really hard nuts to crack. I want to get a haircut as much as the next guy. In very close proximity and you are sitting there. I want to open up dining is the next guy on the inside, but you are sitting there and close proximity. It is a challenge indoors with faith. Is part of the reason why we have and nonessential retail has a little bit of a leg up, only because if you can manage capacity and can keep people moving, you are not sitting in the same place for two hours in proximity, so thats an attribute more on the positive side. It is also why we continue this is all judys and eds and their colleagues, they are the most check most important checkpoint in all of this. It is why we have leaned heavily towards outdoor activities. So you should assume that other steps to come, the sooner we list of the steps will be sooner rather than later will more than likely have some outdoor element to them, something where we know we have ventilation, we can social distance, we can manage capacity. So that is sort of the mindset, just to give you a sense of that. I am not sitting here to say that every day we are going to have news to break. We may or may not. But if the curves keep going in the right direction, and judy gives us her stamp of approval, her holy water, we will try to take those steps as responsibly and as quickly as we think we can. With that, lets start. Good afternoon. Have you missed today . A couple . Maybe a couple. We are in the 60s at this point, so you have missed very few. Reporter two questions. One is in the past couple of days, you have been referring to serology tests. I am not clear on how that is different from any other test. And if it is a better indicator or not. Also, with regard to the though bellmore gym, the gym is perhaps getting more lenience than other businesses. I recall some bars in northwestern new jersey were open, they were given a warning, and when they continue to operate they were shut down. Some of them are facing a loss of their liquor license. Why is there a different approach with this gym . Way, youhy by the have not missed many of these. Very few. Youare in can i think are neck and neck. Heres the difference, as i look at it. Serology tests test whether or not you do or have had this. Assuming they get to be reliable, and they become a utility, that is very powerful for a whole set of things for realities in the future but they do not do a lot for me to answer the question, how many people right now have this come as of friday, as of friday the 15th. We just reported we know exactly with the Positivity Rate is as of friday for people who have it on friday. What we do is we separated out what i called the movie of your life versus a snapshot of your life. I do not know that we are treating them any differently in the sense that i know obviously the county prosecutors and the local Law Enforcement are the first line of attack. On that one i will go to ed first to do with this. There ont thereon gyms. And a lot of, physical activity, close proximity. Not necessarily sedentary but you are by definition in the same place for a period of time. We are concerned about it. I do not want to be equivocating on that point. Serology has the same route as blood. They are looking for antibodies. Antibodies is the response to an infection. If you have an inspection such as covid, you should be producing antibodies which shows up in your serum which is what serology is. Saying, thesewas are the best tests to have a sense whether people in general have had this in the past, which is why we do not recommend people go out individually to see if they might be immune, which is really why people want to go in general. As far as the broader population goes, whether they had it in the past. If i had covid last week or last month or three months ago my serology will likely be positive for any of those cases. It does not tell me what is happening now. Again, i am practicing without a license, but the serology test will be helpful for us in the bigger scheme of things to assess how many people ultimately were infected. The extent to which we got what they call herd immunity. What it does not do is tell us what next steps we can take on monday. Knowing exactly with the positive rate is in the here and now is very powerful for that. D want to talk about compliance across different realities or are you good . I think i am good. I think the governor addressed it. Colonel, if you have anything you want to add. It is a matter for local Law Enforcement, so they will make their own determination and deescalate as appropriate. Ebusiness itself is being held to the same standard as is being held to every business that is not subject or subject to the executive orders the governor has issued across the state. Col. Calahan i would just add that over the past few months i think of the Furniture Store owner cited multiple times, the barbershops, the massage parlors. That gym has been open for the second day in a row and he has been charged twice. I think it has been fairly evenhanded across the board. Gov. Murphy thank you. Does the state have guidance on how pharmacies can separate people getting kobe tests and others just picking up a prescription . And is that ability to determine whether they can offer tests . Outdoor Recreational Activities can resume this friday. Will you have guidance for kid sports teams or High School Sports . Will they be allowed, and if so, what rules will be in place . For the governor, do you plan on going to the beach, and if so, when . On your first know that thist is the case for all, but i do believe it is the case for all cvs locations that is a drive through. I do not know that that is true for all pharmacies. We will have to get back to you in terms of the cohoarding between someone going into by shampoo or pickup a prescription. Locations on cbs, at least the on cvs, the first ones we will know in the coming days. They have committed to getting 50 open by the end of may, which is a week from sunday. The first batch will be sooner than later. No update for you on sports. I am speaking to the commissioner of the nfl this afternoon. This is a challenge. I want to remind everybody that the nfl is still trying to figure it out. There is no Major League Baseball right now, no major league soccer, no hockey, no nba. In addition to high school and other sports. So this is at all levels. I am hoping to get to the beach. I just checked the Weather Report and it is not hospitable. My intention would to be somewhere on the shore this weekend. I also promised that either immediately at the kickoff of summer or soon after i would get to one of our great lakes, and i will be money good on that, but i cannot promise you on the shore or the timing on lakes. You have a sense of how many have summative plans . Comm. Persichilli as of noon today, we are tracking it looks have602 facilities, 492 submitted attestations, and they have until the end of today. And we have plans to call every organization that has not responded, between close of Business Today and tomorrow morning. Withe are quite pleased the response that we have gotten to date. Pardon me . [inaudible] gov. Murphy will the plans be made public . Comm. Persichilli this is the attestation that they have a plan. They can make the plan public. It is their plan. Gov. Murphy can you remind me to followup [inaudible] so they are just submitting a letter saying we are having a plan . They aresichilli saying they have updated the plans, their plans include testing protocol, and they will be completing those protocols on schedule. Of may. Gov. Murphy may 26, i believe. Hold on one second. 12 new jersey viewer sue reached out to us saying she could get through on the phone to an employment today, apparently she has had a hard time getting through, what she got through today and she asked about the extension, and the person she spoke to on the phone told her she had no information about when or if that extension may be happening as far as a 13 week extension from the cares act. Any thoughts on that . Gov. Murphy anything else or was that it . Reporter that is it. Gov. Murphy could someone follow up directly with sue, can we get her details and follow up with her . Is that all right . Thank you. Again, a lot of these are tailormade, very specific to the individuals, and i do not want to make a blanket statement. I know the commissioner on thursday said the department was on track to clear 140,000 claims office backlog this week. Based on everything i know, you will not get a new set of numbers released until thursday, which is the norm for unemployment, not just for new jersey, but nationally. Thank you. Good afternoon. The Morris County timber of commerce has established a task force for reopening new jersey businesses. Of Industry Health professionals from new jersey and wisconsin. They have improved risk factors and claim quote, we can control the risk of exposure to the virus sufficiently to allow us to restart the economy and get our citizens back to work. Governor, what is your response to this claim . And commissioner, bespoke of working with elizabeth, trenton, patterson, and newark to increase testing in those cities. What does that look like in practice . Gov. Murphy on the first one, i have not seen the plan. The Morris County chamber of commerce is a robust and vibrant chamber. I have had the honor of speaking with them, and its leadership is really good. I do not know the specifics as to their plan. And i would be very happy, and i know our team would be very happy to get a look at it. As we have announced here, we have got a commission which is sort of advising us at a strategic level. In fact, we have a full Commission Call tomorrow afternoon. Than i think we have nine sub councils with very specific remits on the economy. And i think that is basically, at least as you described it, that is basically the sort of, we are trying to manage risk here as well. So i applaud them for their efforts, but i would also remind them that there is one binding set of rules of the road, and it is ours. And that has been the case and that will be the case. We move as one state. As good as their plan might be, and maybe we will loop learn something from it. I am always looking to learn more and make whatever we doing as efficacious and responsible as possible. On thein, we move based state guidance, and that will continue to be the case. Judy, d want to get the question about the urban communities and exactly what that may look like . Comm. Persichilli between today and tomorrow, i will be speaking with the mayors and Health Officers of the city. I just finished before i came here with the mayor of trenton. Asking them how many people have you tested, how big is your population, what are your testing goals, what obstacles are you seeing, do you have test supplies, and what type of tests are you doing, and how can we support you. And we may be bringing in a thirdparty party vendor to help with that. Just from my conversation with the trenton mayor, we new to be able to be more mobile, move testing closer to people who those whoarticularly are living in highrise apartment buildings that perhaps cannot get to either a walkthrough or drivethrough. So, it is going to be a combination, but we really do plan on doing these first six, then moving on to other cities that may need our help. Gov. Murphy one thing that occurs to me, dan, tomorrow we may want to, to judys point, remind everybody. The Testing Capacity, this is night and day with where we were in early march. Right . We had enormous demand is a country, and certainly that included here, had very little supply. Now we are among the most tested states in america. And our capacity is now exceeding, as a general population matter, the demand by meaningful amount right now. That is what judy spoke to earlier, and it will only continue to exacerbate. Onlines drops 50 stores and we get another big retailer we are working with that we are closing close to announcing you and i talked to a hierarchy of the priorities of testing. The big urban communities are in the thick of that. Maybe tomorrow we can bring this chart, pulled up, it is vulnerable communities, longterm care, prison population, disability homes, etc. Its the Frontline Health care and other first responders, is the big urban communities, whether it is using an outside vendor, mobile resources, etc. , to get out those populations. Then obviously it is the general population both symptomatically and asymptomatic. Maybe tomorrow we can bring that chart back up with us. Dave, over to you. Reporter hi. Yesterday you were talking about the three stages. We are in stage one now and then we get to the new normal, then we will be waiting for a vaccine and effective medications. So, if there is a vaccine that is created for covid19 along with possibly effective medications being developed, why would we have a new normal . Why would it not just be a normal . Influenza may not be as deadly but it sickens hundreds of thousands of people a year. Tens of thousands die, but Society Still functions normally. Do you envision stage iii three lasting for possibly, i dont know, years . Second and final question, we have received many, many questions about this, emails, calls, from parents, and it is on graduation. Is, you arent now talking about opening the friday, six feet apart. Thousands of people on every beach in many, many towns. Why cant we have the football field for graduation, six feet apart, far fewer people, police would be watching it to make sure social distancing and so forth. A day at the beach is just that, a day at the beach. Is relaxation. Graduation, a life moment. You can hand a kid a diploma, or not even hand them a diploma. What is the difference between that and waiting online to get a slice of pizza at the beach . Many have argued that it is not fair and there is no logic. Gov. Murphy on the second one, will not to say there be thousands out of the beach if it is not out of the 60s and there is rain. But i would say to the parents and the seniors in particular, you also have a reality of middle school kids and potentially Elementary School as well, but the big one are high school seniors. I was asked yesterday, do they have a right to have hope that we can still find a way . They do have a right to have hope. I would add to that that we are trying to figure this out, and i hope sooner rather than later. Secondly, the stages, can you fire that up right now . That was quick. So, this is to your first question. I am going to defer to judy and ed. One part of this is this is covid19, this is coronavirus. It is this particular reality. One of the lessons i hope we all learn here is this is not the only pandemic concern that humankind should have. Right . Either this itself could come back or Something Else like it could come back. One, andrmly in stage you can see these sorts of things, and these are representative steps below, and we have taken all of those. Again, i have already pointed you to the fact that we will be able to, we are wargaming a whole lot of stuff in stage two. I think the point i made yesterday, and i will ask judy and ed if they have a disagreement with this, is that 9 11 changed some things permanently. And i think this is going to change some things permanently. Twill quote tony faucher, ony fauci, i do not know that we will ever be shaking hands again. You know, it is still hard. I am not saying never again, put back in 80,000 people, but pack in 80,000 people aside each other, it will be hard to get to that. Your question presupposes a vaccine, in which case that takes you to a different place, without question. But i think there will be certain habits, basic stuff that we are not going to shake anytime soon. That is a personal opinion. That does not mean it is an admitted mean it is mandated, that it is int as 9 11 changed life someways forever, i think has that reality as well. Would you add or disagree with any of that . Dr. Lifschitz as i said at the first one of these, i would not disagree with my bosss boss, but i still would not. Gov. Murphy everyone else does. Dr. Lifschitz well, we are not going to talk about singing in the rain. Sorry. It, whenomes down to on the other things i said is reasonable people can also disagree on exactly what is it worth to get what sort of return. We do that all the time in life. You mentioned the flu. Yes, we have accepted as a nation that 30,000 to 50,000 or so people die a year from the flu. That event accepted 500 people a year would die from terrorist attacks. Exactly what will be the level that society as a whole will move towards going in the future, what freedoms we will give up in order to minimize the risk of death, i cannot answer that. But clearly those are questions that should be raised and talked about. Gov. Murphy this is probably an obvious point, i will use longterm care as an example. That reality has changed in my opinion forever. Re is a reality alarmed around longterm care. I do not know whether it is testing, visitation, testing of thef, the heroic staff, reality around longterm care i believe will never be the same. That does not mean you cannot get to a place we will all work with, but the vulnerable populations, we are going to be in a different place. Do you have a real quick one . Reporter a clarification if i could. Are you suggesting that even if we have the vaccine and effective medications, the new normal will be no handshaking, no gathering . Gov. Murphy i am using that as an example. The psyche, not just the rules of the road, but the psyche i think of all of us has changed, and i think it has changed i am not sure i know all the ways permanently. Murphycallahan and appreciate the green mask. How do car sales help people if they cannot register their cars at the dmv . Your spokesman said last week there would be testing and group homes for people with develop mental disabilities. Where are you on those plans . Many readers who have been receiving the excess 600 benefits said they did not get the payment this week. So will people have to social distance and wear a mask until there is a vaccine . Is there still an 8 00 p. M. Curfew in place . And people visit family members in person . Last one, if there is no vaccine by labor day, does that mean school should prepare for some kind of hybrid and person online or split schedule approach . Shouldnt they get guidance now so people can prepare . Gov. Murphy you sure that is all . You dont have a powerpoint you want to go through . Please. S and the dmv, this has been going on with online sales, where you can pick up after you purchase it online. It is a process where you can register. There has never been an 8 00 p. M. Curfew. Gov. Murphy that was advice, do not go out after 8 00. There was never a curfew. [inaudible] frankly, we are still stay at home hours a day if you can. Home 24 hours a day if you can. The 600, i dont know about that. Can we come back to you on that . I am going to go out on a limb. There will not be a vaccine by the time we go back to school. We can take that off the table. If im wrong, ill be the happiest guy in new jersey, maybe america. As we speak, the department of ed, department of health, all related areas, are working on wargaming through what backtoschool looks like. And that is something i think you should assume this is within the next number of weeks that we are going to have guidance. Assuming we go back, this is what it is going to look like. Again, i hope sooner than that, graduations from the school year. Think wetion, do i will get social distancing including masks, social distancing, washing hands with soap and water, in the absence of a vaccine, is at your question . I think the answer is yes. This is a good example of this is the reality. We are not mandating you wear a mask, but we are strongly encouraging you to do that. And staying apart from people, again, one guys opinion. I think that is the new norm. Homes,mental disability judy . Are. Persichilli we plotting right now throughout the state the location of all of our group homes, Developmental Disability homes, Mental Health group homes, and we have a Testing Group that meets at 8 30 every morning, and our goal is to develop a plan to actually home,m home to home to and there is a lot of them, but we definitely have to hit everyone. Gov. Murphy i meant to Say Something earlier on race and ethnicity. You are convening a call tomorrow i believe that i will be on for at least a part of. That is something that continues to be a concern for all of us. And i think we are trying to find, we are trying to give the data that we think makes the point. You and i both think we can make that point it is not a good point, but we can make it stronger in a more impactful way. Comm. Persichilli just so you know, the magnitude of the 1925ss, we have developmentally disabled group Mental Health group homes, and we are also working indication oft an how many facilities we need to families. Children and the magnitude of it is great. We will have a plan for them. Gov. Murphy thank you. Im going to mask up as i say a few final words, if that is all right. Thank you all, judy and ed, thank you pat, jared, matt, dan, the rest of the team, thank you. Here, we will be back unless you hear otherwise at 1 00 tomorrow. Thursday is tbd. I think were going to shoot friday for 11 00 a. M. Assuming , which putshe data more pressure on judy and her team, but in respect of the memorial day weekend. Keep doing what youre doing. You have been extraordinary. We talk disproportionately. The press, you have the right to write what you write. Sometimes when i read the paper i think there is a disconnect between what the reality is, that is one guys opinion. But to put that aside, we make the same mistake because we talk about the outliers, give them probably a lot more weight a hef t than they deserve. The point is overwhelmingly, by the millions, you have been doing the right things. And we want to continue to take steps. Again, if it is an outdoorrelated activity, where we can have some management of capacity and social distancing, you should assume those are high on our list of considerations. And again, the most important holy water will come from my right, as to whether or not we can do whatever the steps we take responsibly. But because of what you have done, folks, we are able to consider right now pretty long list of potential steps over a period of time measured between days and weeks. Some are harder than others. The hard ones are inside, lack of ventilation, sedentary. That is hard. That will not be tomorrow, but we are chopping through this. And we will take the steps as fast as we can responsibly take them, but not so fast that we, in some way, risk a health reignition of a health concern. So thank you all. God bless you all. We will see you tomorrow. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] announcer earlier today fed chair jerome power Jerome Powell and Steven Mnuchin testified remotely before the Senate Banking committee about the 2 trillion cares act, which passed in march as part of the government coronavirus response. 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