You are watching live coverage on cspan. Uomo good morning. Be up withasure to everyone this morning. Cleans. In corona always we are in queens. Theys good to get out of capital and talk to people who are doing the work. I am a queens boy, so this is coming back for me. It was called that before the virus. There is no connection between corona queens and the virus. Let me introduce my colleagues. Pay foy, chairman of the mta. To my immediate left, sarah fienberg, who runs the transit borough. Garrett rhodes to my right, who is the deputy superintendent of the department of financial services, but has been with me for many years and is now helping on this up in albany. The today is saturday. I know that because it is on the slide. Otherwise i may not have known that. Days based on the powerpoint. Everybody talks about this as Uncharted Waters, been here before and that is true. But even when you are in Uncharted Waters that does not mean you proceed blindly. You want to stay informed. E
Great. Good afternoon. It is great to be in Orange County and i want to thank mayor for reachingemings out about the barbers in the salons. The discussion was great. We were trying to just do things in a way that is state safe, smart, stepbystep. We did not roll it out in phase one but that doesnt mean we are not intent on getting to yes on this. The ideas we heard were great. I will receive written product. We have folks consulting with physicians, working with written product as well. I am not confident it is a matter of if, not when. Part of the reason we were able to have the discussion is because we have seen a great amount of success throughout the state but particularly in Orange County. The county Health Department and the mayor and the folks involved with that does all deserve a lot of credit. Last night, florida had 581 Covid Patients in the icu statewide. That is the lowest in a month. For a state of 22 million people, that is a small number. In Orange County, 1. 4 million p
Total hospitalizations down again. , we areook at the curve ago. Where we were 21 days 21 days of hell, but we are back to where we were. But we need to find out is when we will be back to the point where only several hundred people showed up at the hospitals every day with the covid infection. Thats what we want to see. Want to know how fast the decline continues and how low the decline gets. We would like to get back to the days of only 400, 5 hundred people showing new infections every day. The numbers are basically saying the same, that we are on the downside of the mountain. Thate always been worried ckup andlittle ti there will be evidence that we are not on decline, but all the evidence says we are on declined. The new cases ticked down yesterday after being stable for a number of days. Cases. 100 new only in this crazy reality with 1100 new cases be relatively good news, right . But 1100 new cases. That, we would like to see in the 200, 300, 400 new cases per day. You think you
Data to the department of health for all individuals who have tested positive for covid19. Good afternoon, everyone. Happy earth day. Im joined by the woman on my right who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the department of health. To her right, someone else who does not eat an introduction. Our state epidemiologist, thank you for being with us. Left, the my superintendent of the state police. Thank you. The director of the office of Homeland Security preparedness is with us. For him. I, amongpat and others, were honored to be joined earlier today by commanding general tots ammonite of the u. S. Army corps of engineers to tour the new bed spaces being constructed at east orange, which you can see here. East on General Hospital and that new bridge medical center. You see the paramus set up. The army corps has provided tremendous assistance at both. I want to give a huge shout out general, who you have seen at white house briefings. We have spoken before about Major General jef
We would love to answer your questions, so please tweet us questions using the askedpolitico, and we will try to get to them throughout the conversation. Anna lets get started. Chairman, thanks for joining us. We are all super focus on the coronavirus pandemic. We are coming, each of us, from our own respective homes. How do you grade the federal response so far . Mr. Perez well, the response of this administration has been one of gross incompetence. It is an utter failure of leadership. This president knew, around the first of the year, that this was a pandemic in the making, and because he is always so concerned about himself, and he wants to be the center of attention, he exhorted the he ignored the advice of seasoned professionals, like dr. Fauci and so many others, and those eight weeks that were lost during this period of time were eight precious weeks that cost lives. Other actions of preparedness, preparedness on getting ppe, this is personal for me. I have four siblings they a