Thank you all again for coming back today and for tuning in, and i do know that these daily briefings can get tedious, and the information, much of it, sounds the same, so people may start to tune it out, but i can tell you the situation is changing, it is evolving, and the information we are putting out is important. Just because the social distancing and hygiene guidance and the stay at home order stays in place after day doesnt mean we shouldnt talk about those things because that will be the key to success in trying to get through this Public Health emergency with the fewest amount of cases and certainly the lowest death toll. I want to think the doctor for being with us today. He has been a practicing physician in new orleans for decades although he does not look that old. Officere chief medical officer. Working with the state office of Public Health and it is great to have you here today. He will take some questions. He will have some prepared comments and take questions after i
What the governor said a moment ago, he is tired of being behind this virus. We have been behind it, playing catchup from day one, trying to put a plan in place that puts him ahead of it, plans what he believes will be the apex in terms of the virus and the impact on the state of new york in the next two to three weeks. Before we go back to the numbers, another thing the governor mentioned in albany a moment ago, his brother chris, who host as nightly program on cnn, is positive for covid19. His symptoms, according to cnn, are mild. Chris cuomo will continue to host his nightly program, they say from his home on a daily basis, again with mild symptoms. The governor has been talking about his brother who he says is his best friend here for the last few minutes. Before that he did go through these numbers. Lets put them back up there. 75,759 cases in the state of new york and 1500 deaths. 1550 is the latest number, up from over 1200 yesterday. These numbers, to neils point continue to ri
Trying to get through this Public Health emergency with the fewest amount of cases and the lowest death total. Corey he thank dr. Bert. He has been a practicing physician for decades, although he does not look that old. He is the chief chief medical officer for dillard university. He is also working with the state of Public Health. And it is great to have him here today. He will take questions and have some prepared comments after i am finished. The doctory have from the apart department of health to take questions related to testing and Public Session other things. Dr. Hebert is here because we mentioned some disturbing statistics coming out of our analysis of the information we are getting, and that is while about 33 of the states population is africanamerican, over 70 of the deaths because of covid19 or among africanamericans. That is concerning to me and to others, and it is unacceptable. We want to better understand why that is and what we can contributed to do, and how we get rid
Everyone yesterday we launched an alert system that will provide timely updates for covid19 and other critical kindness other guidance from the governors office. Text lacovidease to 67283. Already one heard thousand people across00 the state have signed up for alert. Additional information is available at coronavirus. L. A. Gov. This point i will ask the doctor to come up and explain more about the chart that was up there with the modeling because i know some of you were wanting more information about our modeling. Thank you, governor. Said, since the earliest cases in the state we have been working at the the academic side and with health items and insurers to build a model that would help us understand what to expect and how to reject what covid19 would mean for the state when it comes to our most Important Health resources that need to be there for those most severely affected by covid19. That is hospital beds and ventilators. You have been hearing us talk a lot about those. The gov
That meeting in was also the president. We were able to visit with him. Earlier this morning, i had the opportunity to have a phone all with secretary of veterans administration, robert wilke, that we ed our request forwarded through fema for supplemental assistance from the potentially with respect to Surge Capacity of hospitals here primarily a looking towards new orleans. And last night, i was able to fema conversation with the ister pete gainer on most pressing needs we have in louisiana, all of which relates Surge Capacity. Principally, as i mentioned to you yesterday, those being ventilators. P. P. E. And other requests. Pleased to announce and in fact the president announced this during the call with all 50 as rnors today and just an aside, we have 55 governors because of territories. Governors on 50 the call today. But the president announced that our request d 250bed federal Field Hospitals. Now, these are basically beds poles. By beds i am talking about primarily cots. Themse