All for taking time. Lets go through where we are today. On this beautiful day. Lets start with the good news. We deserve some good news, lord knows. Change in total number of hospitalizations is down again. This is the number we have been watching, because the fear for us was always overwhelming the hospital system. Added capacity, we have moved equipment around. The fear was always overwhelming the raw capacity of the hospital system. The number of beds. The number of additional net beds was always important to track. That is what we see here. The net down 53, which is the lowest number since we started doing these charts. That is a good number. Three day average, it is a little more accurate than the youtoday is also down as see. 18,000ospitalizations, 18,700. He see the 18, 18, 18. That socalled flattening of the curve. The apex is not just an apex, it is a plateau. That is what the experts were talking about, that it might have been a straight up, then wrap it down, or might be up
Briefing, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed two executive orders. The first directing employers to provide essential workers with a mask if they are interacting with the public and another expands who can be tested for antibodies. The governor also said it is his decision whether to close schools for the rest of the year. On saturday, mayor bill de blasio said new York City Schools would not reopen. Other new york state officials joint Governor Cuomo for this rethink. For this briefing. Gov. Cuomo good morning. Great to see you again. Some of you for the second time today. Easter for all those celebrating. Happy passover. Happy holy week. Right, we have dr. Jim. Thank you all for taking time. Lets go through where we are today. On this beautiful day. Start with the good news because we deserve some good news. Lord knows. Change in total number of hospitalizations is down again. This is the number we have been watching because the great fear for us was always overwhelming the hospit
Everyone i think knows who is here. S. My farright, doctor todays numbers and where we are today. Hospitalized newly is up from yesterday. But when you look at the three , day averaging of these numbers, the threeday average is down which is good news. , this is the threeday hospitalization rate. We tend not to look at any one day. Day today it is up somewhat, but if you look at the threeday average, it is moving down which is good news. We talk about the apex and is the apex a plateau . Right know we right now we are projecting we are reaching a plateau from the total number of hospitalizations. You see it is starting to flatten. This is a projection. It still depends on what we do and what we do will affect those numbers. This is not an act of god that we are looking at. It is an act of what society actually does. Change in icu admissions is way down and that is good news. The discharge rate is right about where it was. The bad news is 5,489 new yorkers have lost their lives to this
From albany, new york, this is about 40 minutes. Good morning. Everyone knows who is here. The secretary to the governor, officer of the budget. Talk about todays numbers and where we are. Total number of newly hospitalized is up from yesterday. But when you look at the threeday average of these average the threeday is down, which is good news. This is a three day hospitalization rate. We tend not to look at any one day. If you look at the threeday down,e, it is moving which is good news. Apex and ifut the it is a plateau. Right now, we are projecting that we are reaching a plateau in the total number of hospitalizations. You can see it is starting to flatten. It is a projection. It depends on what we do. What we do will affect those numbers. This is not an act of god we are looking at. What societyof actually does. Admissions is icu way down. That is good news. The daily divisions numbers are down. Is rightarge rate about where it was. Is 5489 new yorkers have lost their lives to this
Hospitalized newly is up from yesterday. But when you look at the three , day averaging of these numbers, the threeday average is down which is good news. , this is the threeday hospitalization rate. We tend not to look at any one day. Day today it is up somewhat, but if you look at the threeday average, it is moving down which is good news. We talk about the apex and is the apex a plateau . Right know we right now we are projecting we are reaching a plateau from the total number of hospitalizations. You see it is starting to flatten. This is a projection. It still depends on what we do and what we do will affect those numbers. This is not an act of god that we are looking at. It is an act of what society actually does. Change in icu admissions is way down and that is good news. The discharge rate is right about where it was. The bad news is 5,489 new yorkers have lost their lives to this virus. That is up from 4,758. That is the largest single day increase. But 731about numbers, that