Dr. Howard zuker. Cuomo onediate right, special volunteer assignment for the state. Working for her father. Very pleasant boss. A little said today. Because the boyfriend has left the premises. Returned to his home state. That is ok. The old expression, you love something let it go. And it will return to you. If it does not return, then it was never meant to be. Words to that effect. Numbers are headed in the right direction today. Hospitalizations are down. That change in hospitalizations is down. Are down again. Number of new cases down. Road down. A long decline, fast pike fast spike, slow decline. What has happened across the country. The number of deaths still painfully high. Not down. Up little bit. The overall direction is right but this is a painful, painful, tragic number of lives lost. And they are all in our thoughts and prayers. You look at the entire experience. Stabilizedare basically with where we were before we had this dramatic increase. Things we have learned through this is smart wins. It is not about politics. It is not about emotion. You are dealing with a virus. The virus does not respond to politics. The virus does not have an ideology. The virus is not red or blue. It is a virus that is attacking people. It is about science, about numbers, about data, and smart wins the battle. If you follow that guidance and that theory, we are always looking at researching the numbers. Where case where our cases coming from . How do we reduce the numbers . You look all across the number, the country, it is priority predominantly minority we wear where we are still seeing an increase in the numbers. We look at that in new york city. We did a very Extensive Research projects. And it is true. You can look at where the cases look at the testing data by geographic area. By zip code. And find out where the cases are coming from. We asked northwell health, the Largest Health system in the state, to do an extensive test for us. We are in the midst of that test. About 8000 has, which is a very large sample. And the data is very powerful. And informs what we are doing Going Forward. The test was done in new york city. Color weities of partnered with the Faithbased Community, with churches to conduct tests. We found about 27 of the individuals testing positive. To the generald population of 19 . Ok . The bronx had the highest percentage, 34 , compared to a citywide average of 19 . Then brooklyn, then manhattan, then cleans. Stat when was it Staten Island was at the new york city overall number. But you take a place like the bronx, it is 34 compared to 19 . The data shows, not just a high positive, not just a high number of people with a positive, but the spread is continuing in those communities. Thats where the new cases are coming from. Ok . You can literally do that on the zip code basis. For example, in the bronx, 43 of the people tested positive. 43 . Compared to new york city general average of 19 . Hospitalization rate, 3. 2 3. 2 people for every 100,000. Compared to 1. 8. It is double the hospitalization rate. Be smart. Lets use the numbers. Lets research. Where are the new cases coming from . Where is the spread continuing . Lowincome communities, communities of color. They tend to be high latino, high africanamerican populations. We are seeing that pattern continue in zip codes, lower income predominate. Brownsville, brooklyn, 41 . Double the city average. That happens to be 80 africanamerican. Again, just about double the rate of hospitalization. Thats where the cases are still coming from. It is all across the city. Island, higher in communities of color and lower income communities. I want to thank the congressional delegation who helped organize this partnership between us and the faithbased communities, getting 8000 tests in a short time is not easily done. Akeem jefferies came up with this idea about 10 days ago, organized it quickly. I want to thank congresswoman velasquez and clark. Thank you for helping us get it organized. The Faithbased Community has been great. Reverend broglie and rivera, organizing those churches for us. We have the data. We have the research. Now we have to take the next step. We did the research. We have the data. We know whats happening. Now what do we do about that . We will develop targeted strategies to these highly impacted communities. What we are seeing in new york city is going to be true across the state. Northwell health is going to double the number of churches that they are working in, 44 total churches. We are going to partner with community care. Thank you for stepping up. They will open 28 additional testing sites in these zip codes that fit this profile. We are going to focus on Public Housing. When you think about everything we are talking about, social distance, etc. , think about Public Housing and how hard it is in Public Housing to do the things we are talking about. I worked in Public Housing all across this country when i was the housing entered in and urban secretary. How do you socially distance in an elevator in a Public Housing complex . How do you socially distance in the hallways of Public Housing, texas . In the lobby . In a small playground that is attached to Public Housing . We understand the challenge. Ready responders are going to increase the testing in 40 Public Housing developments in new york city. This will be a very extensive effort. 72 faithbased sites. Ready responders in Public Housing. We want to take the next step, outreach programs, getting the ppe into the community, getting Hand Sanitizer into the community. Explaining social distancing and why that is so important. Explain how this high risk this virus spreads. Its a Public Health education effort. Ive been all across the state. You drive through some of these communities and you can see that social distancing isnt happening. Ppe is not being used. Hence, the virus spreads. Again, we did the research in again, we did the research in new york city. Thats where we have the predominance of cases. It will be true in every Community Across this state and across this nation. You tell me the zip codes that have the predominantly minority communities, lower income communities, i will value the communities where you will have a higher positive and you will have increased spread and increased hospitalization. Im asking all local governments to do the same thing that we did in new york city. Focus on low income communities. Do the testing. Do the outreach. Do the testing. Do the outreach. Thats where the cases are coming from. Thats where the new hospitalizations are coming from. Thats whats going into the hospital system. Thats right you are going to see the highest number of deaths. That is our challenge. On reopening, which we are doing across the state, we do it on the numbers and metrics. Every new yorker can go to the website to find out where the community is. Capital district will be open today. We are working with religious institutions right now. They can have up to 10 people, with strict social distancing guidelines. Weve asked them to consider drivein and Parking Lot Services for religious ceremonies. We are going to be working with our interfaith Advisory Council. They have representatives of the religious Community Across the state, all different religions. I understand their desire to get back to religious or moneys as soon as possible. Religious ceremonies as soon as possible. As a former altar boy, i get it. Even at this time of stress and when people are so anxious and confused, i think those religious ceremonies can be very comforting. But we need to find out how to do it and do it safely and smartly. The last thing we want to do is have a religious ceremony that winds up having more people infected. Religious ceremony by definition is a gathering, right . A large number of people coming together. We know from new rochelle, the first hotspot, that religious ceremonies can be very dangerous. So we dont want to do the same thing. How do we do this smartly and efficiently . I will talk with members of the religious community in doing just that. Im sure we can come up with a way that does it but does it intelligently. People ask all the time, what will happen . What will happen is what we make happen. There is no predestined course. There is nothing that is preordained. What will happen is a consequence of our choices and a consequence of our actions. Its that simple. If people are smart and if people are responsible and if the employers who are opening those businesses do it responsibly, if employees are responsible, if individuals are responsible, then you will see the infection rate stay low. If people get arrogant, if people get cocky, if people get casual, if people become undisciplined, you will see that infection rate go up. It is that simple. This has always been about what we do. Its never been about what government mandates. Government cannot mandate behavior of people. It certainly cant mandate behavior of 19 million people. It can give you the facts. It can give you the facts that lead to an inevitable conclusion. New yorkers have been great about following the facts. But we are at another tipping point. Yes, we are reopening. Yes, the numbers are down. Yes, we can increase economic activity. What is the consequence of that . It depends on what we do. Do your part, wear a mask. Wearing a mask, i have been trying to communicate in a set of different ways. Maria is heading up a project that she will report on in a moment. But it seems like a simple thing, wearing a mask. And its apparently so simple that people think it is of no consequence. It happens to be of tremendous consequence. It is amazing how effective that mask actually is. And dont take my word for it. Im not a doctor or a Public Health expert. Again, look at the facts. What shocks me to this day, how do frontline workers have a lower infection rate than the general population . If i said to you, who is going to have a higher infection rate, nurses in an emergency room, doctors in an emergency room, or the general population . Most people would say the nurses in the emergency room. Doctors in the emergency room. The hospital staff will have a higher infection rate because they are dealing with covid positive people all day long. Not true. How do nurses and doctors have a lower infection rate than the general population . How do transit workers who are on the buses and subways all day long have a lower infection rate than the general population . How does the nypd, Police Officers who show up, dealing with people all day long, how do they have a lower infection rate . Almost half the infection rate of new york city. How can it be . They are the Police Officers. They are wearing the masks. The masks work. Those surgical masks work. Its in the data. Its not that im saying it. Its in the data. Otherwise, it is inexplicable. Look at that list. Transit workers are lower. Healthcare workers are lower. The Police Department is lower. The Fire Department is lower. It also has the emts who show up first and help a person get into an ambulance. They have a lower infection rate. The dockworkers are the correction officials. Correction officers. They are at 7 . State police, 3 . They wear the masks. Wear a mask. Remember all those pictures of china, always Wearing Masks . I wonder why they wear all those masks. They were right. The masks work. They are protective and they work. So on may 5, we launched a contest to come up with a video message, prepared by new yorkers to try to communicate the message of wearing a mask better than i was communicating the message of wearing a mask. Because my daughters were quick maybe it was my communication skills which were preventing the Effective Communication of the wearing the mask message. The caveat is my daughters often say it is my communication skills which are the problem in the home, in society at large. So mariah volunteered to run a competition where we ask new yorkers to do a 30secnd ad and the winner of the competition would be the ad that the state runs. With that, i will turn it over to mariah for her update and report. Today, we are excited to be sharing the five finalists that our team has selected for the new york state wear a mask ad contest. These finalists are in the running for winning this contest and being shown as a Public Service announcement. Starting today, people can go to wearamask. Ny. Gov to vote for their favorite ad. Voting will be open through memorial day. On may 26, we will be announcing the final winning ad. We are so grateful to all the new yorkers who have submitted one of the over 600 submissions. We will be sharing honorable mentions as well. You can see even more of the great videos. Gov. Cuomo 600 submissions. These are the five finalists that people can view and vote on. Ok, lets see the five finalists. I wear a mask for my fellow new yorkers. My mom is a healthcare worker. For my father. For the marginalized communities who dont have access to adequate healthcare. Essential workers. I wear a mask so we can get back to work. Go to school. See a movie. Dance together. Take care of each other. Stay strong. We love new york. Our everyday heroes have been working overtime. For new york to stay open. We can all do our part. I wear a mask to protect you. Lets all wear a mask to stop the spread of coronavirus and save lives. When we show up in the masks, we show up for each other. Show your love for you new york. Because new york loves you. The textbook says politicians lead. No. Sometimes, the people lead. And the politicians follow. Follow the american people. They will do the right thing. There is still a right thing. Maybe right thing is a new york expression. Gov. Cumo great. I know that guy, by the way. I see him all the time. Those are the five finalists. People can vote. They go to the coronavirus. Health. Ny. Gov. Vote between now and may 25. How many times can a person vote . Once. Gov. Cuomo no voter fraud on the selection. No absentee ballots. No polling place. Is there early voting . I dont think so. All right, so thats great. Thank you for doing that. We will announce that winner on may 26. Over 600 submissions. They are really great. Ive seen a number of them. We are going to post the honorable mentions also. But all 600 will be available to look at. Theyre really creative. They have different voices from all across the state. So i want to thank very much everyone who participated. They really are special. And with that, we will take any questions that you might have. Reporter will new york be resident and every worker in the state . Governor cuomo every state wants to test every person in a nursing home. Every state wants to test every person in a facility, in a prison. It becomes a question of how fast you can get the testing up. We have the most ambitious testing program. We are testing staff twice a week. We have about 180,000 people in Nursing Homes, right . Do you want to speak to do you know the testing protocol in Nursing Homes . We mandated twice a week testing for staff last wednesday. Nursing homes had to turn in their proposals to meet that mandate. The feedback, we found out that many were struggling. We arranged monday and tuesday of this week to have kits at every nursing home to do the testing. We paired Nursing Homes with commercial labs to be able to run the actual tests. That is off the ground. There are about 100,000 residents in our Nursing Homes and about 180,000 staff between adult facilities and Nursing Homes. We are leading the nation on this and we believe we are going to meet the goal. They got the kits on monday and tuesday. Im sorry . Oh, the residents. We sent the resident kits out last week. Reporter is it enough to test every resident . Yes. There is a phased reopening plan for casinos to reopen. What do you think about that . Cuomo we dont have a date for reopening casinos. I spoke with the governors of our surrounding states. We agreed that casinos are by definition a large gathering spot. A lot of people are touching equipment. Then someone else touches the equipment. It poses real challenges. We dont have a deadline or date to open casinos. It would be in phase four, our last phase. We do not have a date for that yet. Tribal nations are not bound by state laws. Some of the tribes are. Some are federally recognized and are not bound by state laws. Reporter regarding antibody testing, you said that the rates have been lower for first responders. Have we tested people like delivery drivers and people who do not necessarily have access to medicalgrade masks . To your point, we just started looking at people who work in pharmacies and grocery stores. That has just gotten underway. And we are very eager to get those results. Once we have that data back, we will report it. We wanted to get a random sample from grocery workers across the state. Reporter your administration denied a pipeline permit would supply gas through long island. Given mayor bill de blasios opposition to the alternative for national grid, how can that be . Gov. Cuomo the long island gas provider, the Utility Company said they did not need that gas supply because the demand has dropped. It was a warmer weather. So the Utility Companies are the ones who say they dont need additional gas. On the alternatives, i have gone through the mall. Whatever we need to do, we will do. The Utility Companies themselves said they did not need the pipeline. We cannot have a moratorium. That doesnt work. The big question was, where we were last year, we need the pipeline, if we dont get a pipeline then the world is going to end as we know it and we have to have a new pipeline. Now we dont have a new pipeline and the utility provider say they dont even think in the future we will need a new pipeline because of reduced demand. That is actually good news. What will we need . I dont know. We will work with them on it and make sure there is enough supply because there cannot be a moratorium. Reporter what has been the effective reopening . Are infections taking up . Gov. Cuomo on the data coming in so far, we have not seen any increases. You have a deviation every day, right . I hate to repeat myself, but the daytoday numbers we have to take with a grain of salt because the whole reporting system this does not come from the old testament. This is not gospel. This is a system we have just put up. You will see a daytoday bounce, but we have not seen anything significant anywhere that is worth mentioning. Reporter you think new york city, long island could reopen . Even things like saratoga, they are Going Forward without fans. Will there be fans at saratoga . Is there an update . Gov. Cuomo watch the numbers. Watch the data. Watch the infection rate. Then you will know as well as i know. Reporter you just said you have not seen anything significant in terms of an increase in the metrics to be able to reopen. The finger lakes and Central New York are at their highest rate of hospitalizations at any point in this outbreak. Do you have any intention of rolling back the reopening process, slowing it down, stopping it because of hospitalization . Gov. Cuomo any hospitalization you are seeing today i will ask jim if that is true. Not that i doubt your credibility. But by definition, to be hospitalized, that means you had to get the virus, it had to incubate, you had to get symptoms, get very ill, go to the hospital. There is about a twoweek lag on the hospitalization rate, so by definition it could not be linked to the reopening. But those are the data we will be looking at. Have you seen anything . We have seen upticks. Tracing contact and things like that now. It is limited to a specific issue like the Madison County agriculture business where, if you can address a problem right away the department of health addresses it . We have seen a little uptick, but the rate of transmission is still relatively low. The next couple of days we will know if it has changed. Gov. Cuomo is that daily . Three days, five days . We look at it daily. If something pops significantly and a lot of areas, we also look at hospitalization rates. Its not just hospitalization rate. We also look at gross hospitalization and net. Thats a little different. Gross hospitalization in both regions right now are down. Thats a good sign. That means new people are not walking in the door. We look at all of these things together. If we see a pop on a 24hour basis, we notify the department of health. By the way, the positive testing rates are down in those regions as well. Thats a good sign. Gov. Cuomo let me just give you a little context because things get lost in the details. You are looking at a number of indicators. The reason we have global experts who help us is because this is not really it is new to us, but this has been a Global Experience with other countries, etc. The hospitalization rate, they will tell you, is the lagging indicator. Because it takes a couple of weeks. You want to look at the number of new infections. Your diagnostic testing rate, is that going up . Your cases walking in the door, is that number going up . Your antibody testing, is that going up . They are very keen at looking at nursing home staffing numbers, which is an interesting idea, because what they are saying is the nursing home staffing numbers are indicative of Community Spread because they are not getting it from the nursing home facility. So watching nursing home staffing which is twice a week so you have two measures every week, right . You look at the earlier indicators before the hospitalization, because hospitalization is a twoweek lag. If you see a problem there, it is indicative, but its from two weeks ago, and now you are going to have a wave from the past two weeks. Your dashboard is based on hospitalizations. Testing is spotty based on where you have that. I know that every day there are more tests, but it has been spotty. Gov. Cuomo testing is not spotty at all. What is the number per week . Upwards of 40,000 a day. There are two Different Things jimmy. How do you start a reopening phase and how do you monitor realtime infection, which, to the governors point, as regions are reopening, we are going to take a broader look at new infection rates. That is realtime. We dont want to be on a lag anymore. The reopening was, what were the problems we had . How did those dissipate or not dissipate . Now that we have reopened regions, hospitalization is one component, but the gross hospitalization, people walking in is more important because we are trying to do it in real time. This is the new system but it works with the dial back. Gov. Cuomo it is not a spotty system. It is 250,000 tests per week, the largest percentage of tests done in the United States of america, the largest percentage done of any country on the globe. So that probably would not qualify as spotty. It would qualify as a comprehensive, exhaustive look at whats going on. 250,000 tests. So you watch those 250,000 tests and that number. The experts have pointed to the nursing home staffing tests, which will be twice weekly as opposed to once weekly. You look at that data, and you are looking for a shift in that data. If you see a shift, they will do a deeper dive, more tests, where is it coming from . You can increase tests overnight. You could say we might have a problem in buffalo, lets increase the number of tests in buffalo. If you see a shift, then deeper dive, more attention, and let them understand whats going on. They look for clusters of activity. If you see a shift, you may have a cluster. You may have a hotspot. Or you may not. It may just be a dramatically increased Community Spread, and that would trigger a more systemic issue. Last week i asked you about a group home policy. There are 7,200 group homes that house disabled people. There are issues of crosscontamination because of how shortstaffed the homes are. They fear another situation like what we have seen in Nursing Homes. You said you would check the policy. Did you have a chance to check it . Will you make policy changes to protect people in these group homes . Gov. Cuomo who wants to speak to the group homes . It is something they do as an absolutely last resort, if there is a staff shortage, if there are people out sick and they need people with certain skill levels to cover. As to the issue you raised last week, we have been having internal discussions. We keep people more restricted to the homes they work in to address this issue. We are doing temperature checks. We are working out a whole list of other things we are going to implement. There is a call to reverse the executive order allowing covidpositive patients back into Nursing Homes. Why was that executive order made at the time . Gov. Cuomo look, this is a political season, i get it. I have refrained from politics. Im not going to get into the political backandforth, but anybody who wants to ask why did the state do that with Covid Patients in Nursing Homes, it is because the state followed President Trumps cdc guidance, so ask President Trump. I think that will stop. There are accusations that you are changing the numbers. Gov. Cuomo lets do one at a time. Your first point, why did the state do that . Because the state followed President Trumps cdcs guidance. Ok, thats that answer. No numbers were changed. Why on march 25 did you follow cdc guidance, and do you regret that . Gov. Cuomo not at all. You have to remember the facts. I know you are the new york times, but fact is still fact, even at the new york times. Here is the fact. The cdc guidance said a nursing home cannot discriminate against a covid patient because at that time the issue was Hospital Capacity. Remember Hospital Capacity . We were dramatically increasing Hospital Capacity. If a person does not need an urgent care bed in a hospital because they are not urgently ill and they have it can take two weeks to test negative when you are no longer urgently ill. Is the best use of the hospital bed to have somebody sit there for two weeks when they dont need the hospital bed because they are not urgently ill, they are just waiting to be negative on the antibody test, which can take two weeks. And you need that hospital bed for somebody who may die without it. Second fact, a nursing home cannot accept a patient who they are not qualified to handle. For a covid patient, a nursing home must say i can quarantine, i have the right staff, i have ppe, or else the nursing home should not take that patient. And third, any nursing home that says i cannot take that covid patient, for whatever reason i dont even care what the reason is. I dont have the time. I am overstressed, i dont have the ppe, we always have alternative beds. We have had alternative beds all throughout this. Were bumping up against the capacity. Any nursing home can say i cannot take a covid patient in my facility. In retrospect, do you think it was a bad decision, the march 25th memo, do you think it contributed to the death toll . Gov. Cuomo no, because you would be saying the Nursing Homes were wrong in accepting covid positive patients. Thats what you would have to be saying. Most have legal liability. Gov. Cuomo do you believe a nursing home operator would accept a patient they knew they could not care for . Why would a nursing home operator do that . Why . We always have alternative beds. If they did not think they could handle a covid patient, they would say i cannot handle the covid patient. Why are you so resistant to an outside probe here . Gov. Cuomo i am not resistant, i am just not playing politics. Democrats, republicans, short people, tall people. Gov. Cuomo if the federal government wants to start a probe, they can start a probe. It is irrelevant to me. I have no role in determining the federal probe. I dont welcome or not welcome it doesnt matter. President trump does what he wants to do. He doesnt listen to a governor. Why do you think the numbers here are so much higher than in california . Gov. Cuomo first of all, we are 34th in per capita deaths in nursing home. You take 50 states, where is new york . 34. Even though we had the highest number of cases, per capita, we are 34. You could say wow, how come you are only number 34 . But thats the new york times. Who hasnt asked a question . There are concerns that Distance Learning could destroy the studentteacher ratio, and the Teachers Union will say a low studentteacher ratio is the best Case Scenario for a student to learn. Is that true and are there parts parts of reimagined education that dont include Distance Learning . Gov. Cuomo yes, reimagine education means lets go through and look at what happened. What can we learn that is positive . There is no substitute for a classroom teacher. Saying a teacher on the other of a computer, remote, is the classroom experience, it is not. That is why we have worked so hard to reduce class sizes, so the teacher has more time with each student. That is 100 right. What happened here was you could not do the classroom experience because of the coronavirus, so you had to go to Remote Learning. I dont believe every School District was ready for this abrupt shift to Remote Learning, and how could they be . Nobody was ready. With this abrupt shift, what did we learn . What skills do teachers need . What equipment do students need . Remote learning suggests every child has the equipment at home, parents know how to do it, they can get a signal for every student in every locale. None of these things existed. What can we learn, how can we do better . Everybody wants the students to open up as soon as possible. There is no way, in my opinion, that Remote Learning can ever be a replacement or a substitute for the classroom experience. What does reimagine mean . Does it mean we need to be prepared for a spike in cases or a second wave . Gov. Cuomo if you assume this is the last time Something Like this is going to happen, i think thats a foolish assumption. I think its wishful thinking. It reminds me of the first time we had the superstorms and floods, and tornadoes. Everybody said that will never happen again. But it did. Again and again. I think we should say lets prepare for Something Like this again. First, lets look at what happened and make sure it doesnt happen again. Where was the response system . Where was the Early Warning system . China virus probably went to europe by the time we did the european travel ban, we had 3 million europeans come through this country. Now we have a Hospital Capacity question. We quickly redesign the public Health System to increase Hospital Capacity. Lets prepare for all of these things. It may not be another coronavirus. Maybe another virus. Maybe some other Public Health threat. Maybe a terrorist threat. Who knows . But the world is full of surprises now, and i think this was an eyeopener for all of us. But fool me once, you know. Lets be prepared for the next one. I see you right here. I will go to you right now. You will have the last question. Thank you for the kind words on sunday. I appreciate that. It meant a lot. When does the Council Report back to you . When does that begin . Is that statewide including long island and new york city . Jewish orthodox congregations, men and women i am sure want to attend services. There are 14 orthodox congregations. Your Advisory Council should be aware that the Orthodox Union [inaudible] gov. Cuomo there is no official report that the Interfaith Council is going to do. Im going to speak with them myself. I am going to talk it through with them. Everybody wants to get to the same place. And by the way, they want to get to the same place safely also. I am very close to the orthodox community, as you know, for many, many years. I am speaking to them already. I understand their issues. Its complicated to set one number for one religion and another for another. If i say 14 for the orthodox community, the roman catholics will say how come i dont get 14. We will figure it out. I will do my best to figure it out. 10 goes into effect now and it is statewide. Last question for you. The legislature is considering legislation that would require the legislature during an Emergency Declaration and make the limit 30 days. And counties are hoping for an update on fairs. Gov. Cuomo we have no update on fairs. It all depends on the numbers. When do they open, windows saratoga open . It depends on the numbers. Nobody can tell you what the numbers are. People who try to make projections on the numbers are frankly all wrong. We watch the actual numbers. You can start to see a pattern in the numbers. We see a pattern now where the numbers are going down. That is why we are taking the actions we are taking. Are we at a point where anyone can forecast when phase four will happen . No, not at this point. What was the first part of the question . Legislation that would require a governor to submit a weekly report gov. Cuomo whatever they want to propose they can propose and i will look at it. I have not heard anything and i have not seen anything. I think through this, in terms of my updates or informing people, i probably have been the most informative elected official all through this. As you know, i have done this for about 80 straight days, saturday, sunday, i have briefed every day, every person in this state knows exactly what we are doing, when we are doing it. I had people come up to me on the street who talk about rate of transmission and everything we have done. I feel very good about how exhaustive i have been in communication. The news has not always been positive and uplifting, but i said from day one i would bring you the facts every day and i have every day. I have not watched what every other governor has done. I dont know if any have done it for 80 straight days. I feel good about how much information we have communicated, and i dont think i could be any more public in the communication than i have been. We have televised these for anybody who wants to watch. But whatever legislation they come up with, they can propose. I 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] join in the conversation on our washington journal. It onoverage, watch demand at www. Cspan. 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While speaking to reporters, the president also gave an update on his use of hydroxychloroquine as a preventative measure against covid19. Asa hutchinson and kansas Governor Laura Kelly to discuss the pandemic. The president also gave an update on his use of hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure measure against covid19. Thank you very much is an honor to have asa hutchinson, the governor of arkansas, he has been doing a tremendous job and likewise, Governor Laura Kelly terrific state, terrific people. Hard workers, thats for sure. Hard workers. Discussing various things, i guess everything you can imagine. We have been doing some of these meetings wither