Help with the high risk patients. The governor spoke to the reporters from Javits Convention center in new york city serving as a temporary hospital site. Good morning, good to see you all here in masks, related gear. Let me introduce to my right, we have general patrick muhr if i, my left, we have general raymond shields. These are two gentlemen who i have been through many situations with. Weve been through hell and back and if you have to have two professionals dealing with the situation like this, these are the two situations that you these are the two people you want to be with. So i thank both generals today. Im private cuomo, but ill be your governor today. I want to thank the army corps of engineer people who are here today who have done an outstanding job. They came in very quickly and theyre setting up this emergency hospital, which is going to be badly needed. I want to thank mcgowan steel and the javits center. This is an exhibition hall and not what they normally do, but t
Fact there has never been a time when humans were not affected during his time as a selfdescribed disease detective he has had his own brushes with viruses and wnfectious disease in contagion in 1995 he worked in zaire for the first a bola after 9 11 he was called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax and in 2003 called to hong kong to help quarantines ours. These are some of the stories he chronicles in the next pandemic as a disease hunter and has been trying to prepare the public for Health Emergencies and he has seen it all. Telling us microbes will always be a problem he also writes that in all all epidemics and pandemics are inevitable in fact most can be mitigated if not prevented. But how do we have enough resources . To help a separate the hype from the facts what poses the greatest risk of what we need to do please join me on a Public Health journey by welcoming doctor kohn to the Carnegie Council this morning. [applause] thank you very much. Good morning everybody.
Ritical need in terms of timing, right . We talk about our apex. We talk about that curve. Localities, different regions around the country are curves. Have different we are in some ways first. Up first. Umbers went our trajectory is first. Shot. Ong different regions will have different times. What i said to the president and his team was, look, rather than saying we have to provide entire countryhe about time, lets talk addressing the critical need in hot spot. Once that hot spot turns because you have an apex and a curve and the urve is relatively short once you address that hot spot ith the intensity, intense equipment, intense personnel, spot. Hift to the next hot and have more of a rolling deployment across the country static deployment, right . I was in the federal government at h. U. D. Worked on dozens of disasters. You deal with the disaster in you at that time and then you move on to the next disaster. Nd i think that rolling deployment could work here and webehalf of new yo
Governor cuomo good morning. Thank you for being here today. I think you know everyone who is here. Right. Start on my far erek rhodes, deputy superintendent of the department of financial services. Me. Ed with part of the attorney generals office. Part of the swat team. Empire the president of college. Dr. Zuker. Governor. To the and also the budget director. We have a lot of interesting are moving. Things have t status, we still the trajectory going up. The ve not turned trajectory, nor have we hit the apex. What the line will do, it will go the high point, tip, go down. Still on the way up the mountain. Number of infections that have 80 , still, n selfresolved. Of the people who test positive require hospitalization. Then there are degrees of hospitalization, right, but the universe that requires 15 . Talization is models. E use projection e have Cornell Wilde that use projection models, mckenzie, department of health uses models. On the projection models are important because they
See youre practicing social distancing. That looks very nice. Thats very good. I want to thank everybody for being here today. This morning i spoke with the eaders of the g7 nations, and they really had a good meeting. I think it was a very productive meeting. I spoke with our nations governors, also. This afternoon were announcing new guidelines for every american to follow over the next 15 days as we combat the virus. Each and every one of us has a Critical Role to play in stopping the spread and transmission of the virus. This was done with a lot of very talented people, some of whom are standing with me and thats available. And dr. Burks will speak about that in a few minutes. Its important for the young and Healthy People to understand while they may experience milder symptoms, spread this ly virus and will indeed by putting others in harms way and we worry about our Senior Citizens and the task force meets every day and updates guidelines based on the fast evolving situation this