For new york city. Good morning everyone. Let me introduce who we have with us today. From my far right we have jim watches who is the president of empire college. We worked with him for many years and hes been helpful on this mission our commissioner of health, doctor howard zucker, to my left is general Patrick Murphy, obviously more about him in a moment and to his left is general raymond shield. Thank you for being here today. This is an amazing compliment. Its transformative in just one week. The job center looks entirely different. This is a place thats literally going tosave lives. Go through some facts , if i can. On a daily update of where we are and then i want to make some comments to all the women and men who are assembled and did such a great job on this facility. The increase in the number of cases continues. We still see thattrajectory going up. Those are the dates frommarch 3 to march 20. Strategy, plan of action, along, step one flatten the curve comments that you incr
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