Coronavirus. He announced statewide religious gatherings of up to 10 people with strict social distancing allowed this week. This is about an hour. [inaudible] good morning. Good when you know the difference between morning and afternoon. Its a good way to start the day. To my left, we have budget director robert rithika. That is our financial forecast. All smiles. This is the secretary to the governor to my farright. Right speciale volunteer assignment. Working for her father, very pleasant boston. A little sad today. The boyfriend has left the premises, returned to his home state. Thats ok. Expression, if you love something, let it go. It will return to you. If it doesnt return, it was never meant to be. Words to that effect. Hospitalizations are down. Integrations are down again. The number of new cases is down. Road down. A long bike, slowe, fast decline. Thats what has happened all across the country. Number of deaths, still painfully high. Not down. A little bit. The overall dire
Ubations, the int way we like to see it. New cases, up a tick and these numbers tend to bounce, but it has been a slow decline. Theres no doubt about that and you see there have been several plateaus and then decline. We are very interested to see where that number winds up, how low the cases go. Weve done a lot of research, as you know, those new cases mostly coming from people who are at home, so we are talking about home spread. Thanthan at work, more essential personnel, and that is the hardest place to control the spread is when a person is literally at home, right . There are very few precautions. It is all about personal behavior. That is where those cases are coming from. Number of deaths is down, but 132. Painful, we are right about where we were when we started this, number of when west, march 27 is really started this miserable journey. If you look at new york, our curve is down. Congratulations, new yorkers, and actually, the curve in the rest of the nation is up. So while
Dr. Howard zuker. Cuomo onediate right, special volunteer assignment for the state. Working for her father. Very pleasant boss. A little said today. Because the boyfriend has left the premises. Returned to his home state. That is ok. The old expression, you love something let it go. And it will return to you. If it does not return, then it was never meant to be. Words to that effect. Numbers are headed in the right direction today. Hospitalizations are down. That change in hospitalizations is down. Are down again. Number of new cases down. Road down. A long decline, fast pike fast spike, slow decline. What has happened across the country. The number of deaths still painfully high. Not down. Up little bit. The overall direction is right but this is a painful, painful, tragic number of lives lost. And they are all in our thoughts and prayers. You look at the entire experience. Stabilizedare basically with where we were before we had this dramatic increase. Things we have learned through
Committee heard from the president of urdu and lane college, they talked about Financial Assistance provided by the cares act and the important of addressing the hardships of minority students and those of lower socioeconomic status are facing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. Hearing of the Senate Health Prevention Committee will come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank the senators that are witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we will turn to our witnesses for their statement of about 5 minutes each, if they could summarize. There it is. Senators will each have five minute round of questions. We
Dr. Howard zuker. Cuomo onediate right, special volunteer assignment for the state. Working for her father. Very pleasant boss. A little said today. Because the boyfriend has left the premises. Returned to his home state. That is ok. The old expression, you love something let it go. And it will return to you. If it does not return, then it was never meant to be. Words to that effect. Numbers are headed in the right direction today. Hospitalizations are down. That change in hospitalizations is down. Are down again. Number of new cases down. Road down. A long decline, fast pike fast spike, slow decline. What has happened across the country. The number of deaths still painfully high. Not down. Up little bit. The overall direction is right but this is a painful, painful, tragic number of lives lost. And they are all in our thoughts and prayers. You look at the entire experience. Stabilizedare basically with where we were before we had this dramatic increase. Things we have learned through