Responsible to indicate whether they can move on to phase 2. This briefing is 45 minutes. Eva pleasure to be here and once again, to my far right, a Deputy Financial Services in the state of new york. Gov. Andrew cuomo since it began, to our right, a phd doctor, and it still counts to be a doctor and to my left, secretary alyssa who is the top state official. And its a pleasure to be with her. You would be in rochester today. But for most people, relate to rochester. It is a pleasure being here, Rochester Regional Health facility and how i think the president and ceo eric for having us here today. I also will join by the number of elected officials i want to thank him for being here. We have that great congressman, that a really challenging position before he went to congress, he was working in new york state government. But he is now in washington and we need is voice. More than ever. This will be a big weekend washington. We need to get the federal government to recognize the situati
Scattered applause. Scattered people, scattered. Good morning, everyone. It is a pleasure to be here. Let me introduce the people on the dais. The deputy of Financial Services in the state of new york has been working with us on this since it began. Dr. Whicht, a phd still counts to be a doctor. To my left, the secretary, who. S the top state official pleasure to be with her. Pleasure to be in rochester today. It is a pleasure to be in the Rochester Regional Health facility and i want to thank the president and ceo for having us here today. Joined by a number of elected officials. I want to thank them for being here. We have the great congressman who had a really challenging position before he went to congress because he was working in new york state government, but he is now in washington and we need his voice there more than ever. This is going to be a big week in washington. We need to get the federal government to recognize the situation that state governments face and not just Fun
Journal we speak with the hills reid wilson author on the coronavirus pandemic. Afterwards we discussed key campaign 2020 with cook political reports Jessica Taylor. Journal is next. Host good morning on this monday, may 18. States across the country are reopening economies and lifting restrictions on activities like going to parks, golfing, dining out, shopping, and going to the gym. This is happening while the u. S. Has seen over 1. 4 million cases and nearly 90,000 deaths. We want to talk to all of you about reopening where you live. Do you support or oppose the idea . If you support it . , 2027488000, if you are 2027488001. Ning, at can also text us 2027488003. New york times put together an interactive map that shows states that are reopening in blue on your screen. Those with regional openings are in yellow. Light blue means they are reopening soon. , solid yellow, i should say, are still shutdown. Regional openings have these lines through them a little difficult to see on your
Its political. Everything is political nowadays, right . It is so easy to say, thats just political. That was the fear. If new yorkers did that, governmentally, they had no ability to enforce 19 billion homes. Staying in their that is why the communication was so important. Give them the facts, give them the facts, give them the facts so they understand why. That worked. The second nightmare was what if the central workers dont show ssentiale e workers dont show up . Someone has to pick up the garbage, the hospitals halfs to run have to run. What if the e central workers said im not going to show up . You communicated so effectively, the fear of the virus, that would be and then the essential workers say if everyone is staying home, im staying home too. It could have happened. I went through the hiv virus, when hiv started. People were petrified. Nobody knew what it was. Nobody knew how it lived, how it was transferred, how long it lived. People were petrified. Nobody wanted to go near
Saturday. A little convoluted reasoning, but not the first time. The total number of hospitalizations are down, again. Interesting to look at the curve, how fast we went up and how relatively slow the decline has been. That shows you the problem of having a spike, a spike happens quickly but resolves slowly. Change in hospitalizations, intubation is down. Number of new cases per day is also down, 400, which sounds like a large number but this is on a statewide population of 19 million. 15,000 hospital beds. The number of lives lost, 157. That number has been stubborn. May 10, 161, these were all basically in the margin of error, if you will. This system is not that precise. I believe when they actually go back weeks from now and calculate total number of deaths, at deaths, etc. , you will see a variation in this number. We are right about where we were when we started. We want to make sure we do not go back to the hell we have gone through. When we talk about reopening, that is a discu