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Governor andrew cuomo on the states response to coronavirus. You are watching live coverage here on cspan. Gov. Cuomo lets go through where we are right now. Is, the curve of the increase is continuing to flatten. A number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex. The apex of players appears to be a plateau, which is what many of the models predict. You plateau for a. Of time a period of time. The hospitalization rate is down and that is important. We have more people getting infected still. We have more people going to the hospitals, that we have a lower number. That is all this is saying. Fewer people are going into the hospitals, still net positive. The three day average, just what we look at, because daytoday can be somewhat deceiving, especially when you get towards the weekend, because the weekend reporting gets a little different, but all of the numbers are on the downward slope. Still, people getting infected, still people owing to the hospital, but a lower rate of incre
Everybody knows whos here. To my right. Secretary to the governor, melissa de la rosa. Director. Lets give you facts. Plain, true facts. Good news. The curve continues to flatten. Talked all along, quoteunquote, the experts said that there were two possibilities. You could have a high point, a roppoff, or you could have a plateau. It appears that we have a plateau. Flattening. Its the flattening of the curve. You the increase has slowed down. Flattens out for a period of time. Nobody knows how long because before. Been here but if you look at the number of admissions, 18,000, 18,000, 18,000. Flattening. Itely a thats good news. Still going up a little bit, by the way. Go back a second. Up a little bit, but opposed tottening as gaps. Sing he total number of hospitalizations, net down, a little bit up, a little bit down. Ut overall just follow the line. Dont get caught up in the daytoday. Threeday rolling average, which is more accurate than any one day, is down again. In i. C. U. Nge ad
Government is proactively telling people not to go to work , we cant give people the incentives and the aligned job skills to try to reenter the workforce. That would happen in a later phase. Right now, we are just trying to help families and households make ends meet so there is not as much financial suffering in the economy. We need to think about this into different phases. Right now we are in the relief phase and then we will start opening things up and what kinds of incentives will be needed to get the workforce back to its formal self. Phase, whats relief is your sense and how much bigger the number can go in terms of the jobless numbers . Guest the real answer will depend on how long the Public Health crisis is drawn out. If we dont go back to work on a broad basis for several more months, it is clear there will need to be an additional large package. I dont know if it will be the same as the prior one, but we have seen the Small Business loan Program Helping Small Businesses ke
It flattens out for a period of time. Nobody knows how long because nobodys been here before. But if you look at the number of total admissions, 18,000, 18,000, 18,000. Thats definitely a flattening. Thats good news. Still going up a little bit, by the way. Go back a second. Still going up a little bit, but a basic flattening as opposed to increasing gaps. The total number of hospitalizations, net down, a little bit up, a little bit down. But overall just follow the line. Dont get caught up in the daytoday. As we say, threeday rolling average, which is more accurate than any one day, is down again. The net change in i. C. U. Admissions is down. Again, i discount this i. C. U. Admissions because the old demarcation of an i. C. U. Bed in a hospital and regular bed in the hospital is gone. Almost every bed is basically an i. C. U. Bed. Net change in i. C. U. Admissions is also down. Intubations is real. Intubations is the worst number. If you go on a ventilator, 80 , when its down its goo