Happy saturday. The saturday crew is here. A light crew. Facts,give you the Everybody Knows everyone here. Today is saturday. I know it is saturday because i dont wear a tie on saturday. 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. 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
All great policy work for the state for many years. To his right, gareth rhodes. He is not a doctor either. At the department of Financial Services but has worked with me and the state for many years and has been a great talent here. It is a pleasure to be here today. We are at syracuse state university, the upstate medical school and hospital. Had a chance to say hello to the nurses and doctors who work here. I wanted to say thank you for all the all they have done here. It has just been an extraordinary experience but we have seen the good, the bad and the ugly with this. The good is beautiful. Let me talk about some of the facts we are dealing with today. Facts are our friends, right. People want to know the facts without spin or opinion. That is what we have been giving them. Total hospitalization rate is down. Which is good news. Hospitalization is down. The number of into patients is also down. The number of covid hospitalizations per day these are new people who are newly diagno
Until they are, you are next to our guests, you are on. Scattered applause. Scattered people. Good morning everyone. Pleasure to be here. Once again. To my far right, garth rhodes who is deputy of Financial Services in the state of new york but hes been working with us on this area since it began. Doctor james molasses to my rats. Not a real doctor but a phd doctor whichstill counts as a doctor. My life. Melissa derosa who is the top state official, state official, pleasure to be with her its a pleasure to be in rochester today. Really around the point but for mostpeople , it really rochester. Its a pleasure to be in the Rochester Regional Health facility and i want to thank the president and ceo eric bieber much for having us here today area i also were joined by a number of elected officials,i want to thank them for being here. We have countyexecutive and bellows, we have a great congressman. Who at a really challenging position before he went to congress because he was working in ne
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 situation that state governments face. And fund, not just Corporate America but fun working americans. The police and firefighters
Boyfriend is part of the premises. Monday. This is the total hospitalization rate in which you see is basically flat. Flat is not great. A reaction toe the weekend, sunday discharges may be down. But we have the same question, how fast and how steady decline. We dont want to see flat. We want to see an increase in decline. We want to see how fast that the klan goes and how lthe decline goes and how low the decline goes. When does the hospitalization rate it down to a truly manageable number . When does the incomingcase number get down to a manageable number . You see again, overall hospitalization rate is on the decline. Yesterday, a little less than we would like to see. Hopefully it was a sunday anomaly, because of the weekend. Ubations is int down. Day,new covid cases every puts it in perspective. Down a tad from where it was, but these weekend numbers are sometimes a little strange. Number of lives lost, 337. Still tragically high. If you lookecline, at it over the past few days, n