It is taking a tremendous cost. Us to pushg all of ourselves beyond what is comfortable. What is fair or sustainable for much longer we stay strong, stay in the fight we can see the finish line but the push to the end requires all of us to sprint. We are at her new the peak in mississippi. This is the most painful time this is the hardest time. It is the beginning of a turning point that we have not gotten past our peak pain yet. I pray every day for an end to this crisis and we are acting together to protect our people. We have been to other trials and overcome. We will come through this also. I know that what is being asked of use is not easy. It is not even close to being easy. We also notice the collective work of our people is having an impact. The damage could be far worse. Our projected pain is coming down dramatically. It hurts but it is working. You are saving your neighbors life. When we avoid death we only see the cost of the sacrifice. You are saving lives every day stay in
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
Noem held a town hall taking questions on the states response to the coronavirus pandemic. The state is one of few without a stay at home order. 518 meatpacking plant workers tested positive for covid19. South dakota public broadcasting posted the town hall. Hello and welcome to a covid 19 special. South dakotas have a lot of questions about the coronavirus. They also have questions about the decisions being made in an effort to slow down the spread. Joining me to help answer some of those questions live, we have governor kristi noem, secretary with the south Dakota Department commissionerd the of the Governors Office of Economic Development. Welcome to all of you. Thank you. We are going to continue to take questions tonight. You can send those via text or email. Our phone number to send a text 67372. We are going to get started. We have been receiving questions for the last day and a half. All of those that we will be asking tonight have come from south dakotas except this first one.
World Health Organization just both nations to stay vigilant its. Going down isnt just about a lock down and let go. To get down from the numbers not just stabilize. The redoubling of Public Health at 1st also ahead mexico declares a Health Emergency and asks people to observe fallen terry confinement and the brace for a vaccine scientists across the world work flat out to find a way to protect a soul from night. We begin in the u. S. Now the global at the center of corona virus cases more than 3000 people have died over a 1000 in new york alone new york state that is the worst affected region across the country more than 160000 die infected after dismissing the dangers posed by cove in 19 in the early stages of the outbreak u. S. President donald trump now says his administration is ramping up testing. Today we reached the historic milestone or a war against the. Euro virus over 1000000 americans have now been tested more than any other country by far not even close. And test it accur
Because of covid19 in colorado. These numbers are growing. While we stayathome and the work is being done in so many and so many of you are staying home and Wearing Masks to go out, that is having an effect. But that is a delayed effect, so we are still expecting significant tragic loss in the days and weeks ahead. Many people who contract the after 10, 12 days, some hospitalized, some make it, some dont. Monday we took action to extend the need to stayathome to april 26. We have confidence in reaching that date, achieving that date. It depends on peoples ability to stayathome. The more people stayathome, we can hit the date sooner. If people are failing to stayathome and spreading the virus, that date could have to go longer if the deaths continue to pile up. But at this point, based on the data we have and the data that is emerging, we feel confident we can achieve that date and you can achieve that date by staying at home and wearing a mask if you absolutely have to go out. A wonder