Department of military naval affairs. Dr. Howard zucker, commissioner of health. The president and ceo of the Greater New York hospital association. To my left, michael dowling. Larry schwartz, former secretary to the governor who has been volunteering to help us here. Michael israel president and ceo , of westchester medical center, and dan cresswell, commissioner new york city Emergency Management department. Them all very much for being here. We had a great meeting. I will refer to it in a moment. Let me wish everyone happy National Doctors day. This is a day that doctors are truly busy and truly stepping up to their oath and passion and literally saving lives. We honor all of the doctors in the state of new york today. Let me also think the people let me also thank the people from the Javits Center. The Javits Center has done many magnificent exhibitions and transformations and they never cease to amaze me. This is a transformation i dont think anyone could ever anticipate. 2500 be
The students. Christian yes heather, alex districts around the bay area really around the state are working on their distancelearning plants. Now that it is becoming abundantly clear though students might not be back in their classrooms before the end of the school year the bay area going growing increasingly accustomed to seeing empty School Buildings and empty schoolyard. Now the governor acknowledging it is increasingly unlikely that students will return to the classroom this year practical we should be clear that the right thing to do for our children, the right thing to do for the parents, for households, for the communities in which they reside is to make sure that we are preparing today to set our School System up where we are increasing class time but increasing it at home and fulfilling our obligation through Distance Learning the governor and ask google is stepping up providing thousands of computers and Internet Access points to facilitate Distance Learning for all students.
Ken roski, the president and ceo of the Greater New York hospital association. To my left, michael dowling. To his left, larry schwartz, former secretary to the governor who has been volunteering to help us here. Michael israel, president and ceo of westchester medical center, and dan cresswell, commissioner new york city Emergency Management department. Let me thank them all very much for being here. We had a great meeting. I will refer to it in a moment. Let me wish everyone happy National Doctors day. This is a day that doctors are truly busy and truly stepping up to their oath and passion and literally saving lives. We honor all of the doctors in the state of new york today. Let me also thank the people from the Javits Center. He Javits Center has done many magnificent exhibitions and transformations and they never cease to amaze me. This is a transformation i dont think anyone could ever anticipate. 2500 beds as an emergency hospital. It is a partnership between state and federal
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards will talk about the increase in cases in new orleans and throughout the state. Later today, the White House Coronavirus task force headed by Vice President pence will hold a news conference. We will have live coverage here on cspan. And you can also follow our coverage online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called on Health Care Workers around the country to the battle coronavirus in his state. Cuomo good afternoon. Thank you for being here today. We have some people with us on the dais today. The commissioner of the new york city Emergency Management department. Let me thank them all very much for being here. We have just had a great meeting, which i will refer to in a moment. Also wish everyone happy National Doctors day. This is a day that doctors are truly busy and truly stepping up to their oath and their passion, and literally saving lives. Inhonor all of the doctors the state of new york to
Is an emergency hospital. It is a partnership between state and federal government. I want to thank them very much for what they have done. The army corps of engineers did a fantastic job thing in and getting things set up as quickly as possible. It will become operational today. We will start to run the facility and we will take it from there. Let me go through a couple of facts. You seee we are today the number of people testing continues to go up. We want to test and find the positives. We want to find the positives so we can isolate and stop the transmission. We tested 14,000 people yesterday. Out and the to go total number of quiches is 66,000 cases is 66,000. Those numbers are daunting, to be sure. It is continuing to move across the state of new york. There is only one county now that does not have a covid case. Anyone who says the situation is in new york city only is a state of denial. You see this virus move across the state. You see it move across the nation. There is no ame