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
Contracting recovering from the disease. Join the conversation on washington journal primetime, monday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gives an update on the Pandemic Response in his state from earlier today. This is just over 45 minutes. Gov. Cuomo lets go through every right now. The good news is the curve of the increase is continuing to flatten. The number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex and the apex appears to be a plateau. Which is what many of the models predicted. It was going to be straight up to the top number and then you plateau and that looks like what we are doing. The hospitalization rate is down. Thats important more people getting infected still. More people going to the hospitals, but we have a lower number. People are going to the hospitals still net positive. The 300 average, which is what we look at because daytoday deceiving, especially towards the weekend because we can reporting gets a little different. All th
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
Required the ability to perform widespread testing and contact tracing. Gov. Cuomo good afternoon. A bigger group than usual. Thank you very much for being here. We will give you some updated information and go from there. On this format of the presentation, i brought one of my own personal bias to the way we do this. People have not noticed i have an unknowing personal habit that annoying personal habit that my children remind me of often. Staff reminded me this morning. People love to give you their opinion on what they think. I often will stop them and say before you tell me what you think, just give me the facts. Just give me the facts before your interpretation of the facts. I like to start with just the facts. Just give me the facts and that is what we are doing in this presentation. Here are the facts. No opinion, no filter. I will tell you what my opinion is, but first the facts. It is an annoying personal habit. People want to tell you their opinion. I think this. I know, but
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