The overall line is still good. The 109 families that lost a loved one, they are in our thoughts and prayers. What does the governor do on memorial day weekend . People ask me all the time, what do you do . What does a governor do on memorial day weekend . You go to the beach. Thats what a governor does. He brings his friends. Im here with my friends today from far right, gareth, melissa, robert and dr. Jim melotras. Were at the beach. Beaches in new york state state beaches are open. Jones beach, sunken meadow, robert moses, campgrounds, rv parks open tomorrow. Were excited about that. We remind all new yorkers to be smart in what they are doing. Were now decidedly in the reopening phase. We have been following the numbers from day one. Not emotions. Following the science, not the politics. This is not a political ideology question. This is a Public Health question. Its about a disease, stopping the disease, stopping the spread of the disease. And thats science. Its not politics. We have all the numbers posted for all regions in the state. We want people to understand the numbers. We want people to understand whats going on, because it is their actions that determine our future. So informing the people of the state, thats what i have done from day one. Every day. Thats what we will continue to do. Also, we feel that this is a case of first impression. We have never been here before. We have never before here before in our life types. Thats true. The country has been through this before. You learn from the past. The virus came back. This is not its not about what you think, ideology. This is what we know. These are facts. You go back and you look at what happened in the 1918 pandemic in st. Louis. Look at denver where they loosened up too quickly and the virus came back. Article in the paper today, the washington post, 24 states may have an uncontrolled growth of the virus. They are talking about california and florida may still see a spike in the number of deaths. Okay . Those are all facts. And they reinforce the point we have been making. Follow the numbers, follow the science. We have done just that. Thats why you see our curve is coming down where many places in the country, the curve is going up. Remember what happened to us was no fault of our own. Actually, it makes the point, because what happened to us was we did not have the facts when this started. Everybody said the facts were the virus was coming from china. Those were not the facts. The virus went to europe. Nobody told us. People came from europe to new york and to new jersey and to connecticut. 3 million european travellers came, january, february, march, before we did the european travel ban. And they brought the virus to new york. And thats why the new york number was so high. We didnt have the facts. We were not informed. But once we got past that and we were in control, we have been smart. And smart has worked. We just have to stay smart. Even though its been a long time and people are anxious, we have to stay smart. You keep watching those numbers. The mid hudson is still on track on the numbers to open tuesday. Long island is on track to meet the numbers on wednesday. We have to get the number of deaths down on long island. We have to get the number of tracers up. But were doing that. Were preparing for long island to open. Were getting the Transportation System ready. The Long Island Railroad is run by the mta. Theyre going to be cleaning and disinfecting all trains and buses every day. First time ever. We never disinfected buses and trains before. We manufactunever thought we ha. We get it now. Theyre doing te ining it every. They will add more cars so people can space out and socially distance when long island opens. I want people to remember that a mask is mandatory on public transportation. I think you are making a mistake a grave mistake if you dont use a mask in your own personal life. We know that it works. We know that the First Responders have a lower infection rate than the general population because they wore the masks. I think if you dont wear the mask in your personal comings and goings, you are making a mistake. But i do know as governor, if you are going to subject other people in the public to your behavior, then you have to wear a mask when you cant socially distance. And thats true on public transportation. Starting today, all the new york professional sports leagues will be able to begin Training Camps. I believe that sports that can come back without having people in the stadium, without having people in the arena, do it. Do it. Work out the economics if you can. We want you up. We want people to be able to watch sports to the extent people are still staying home. It gives people something to do. Its a return to normalcy. So we are working and encouraging all sports teams to start their Training Camps as soon as possible. And we will work with them to make sure that can happen. All veterinary practices will begin on tuesday. Thats a service that is necessary and has been necessary for a period of time. That will start on tuesday. I want people to remember that there are people who have paid a very high price everybody paid a high price for what we have gone through. Some people have paid an extraordinarily high price. You have people who literally dont have enough to eat. The demand on food banks has skyrocketed. Its true all to cross the state and long island. We encourage people and philanthropies to make donations make them for the purpose of food banks. This sis a period where it gets basic. Do you have housing and do you have food . Lets make sure no new yorker goes hungry. Also, as we go forward, we have been talking about the light at the end of the tunnel. And were dealing with it today in the here and now. But we also have one eye on the future. When we finish getting through this, which we are, we have to Start Talking about Building Back better. Not just Building Back. Building back better. Same attitude we had here on long island after hurricane super storm sandy devastated long island. I said, i dont want to just replace what was. We went through too much pain. We learned too much just to replace what was. Lets build back better, a new power grid, new more resilience homes, more resilient roads so when Mother Nature comes back she will come back were in a better position. Because we learned from super storm sandy. Lets do the same thing here. What do we really think, this is the last time were going to have a Public Health emergency . Does anyone really believe this is the last time . Like super storm sandy, well, its once in 500 years. Yeah, sure, once in 500 years. It happens three times a year now. This cant be once in 500 years there are new rules. I believe theres going to be another Public Health emergency. Different virus, this virus, some other Public Health emergency. Learn from this, build back better. We asked eric schmidt, who is very good at seeing issues and seeing possibilities, to chair a commission for us to look at the situation and say, how do we learn from this and how do we prepare going forward. We put together a commission thats going to work with him that represents all aspects of the state, all aspects of the economy. But i want them to get to work. I want them to come up with ideas. And lets make sure that were better for what we have gone through. Start preparing for a new chapter in this saga. Were writing were writing history in new york. Were writing history in america. Thats what were doing. Were writing history. For a whole modern day governmental and societal response. Chapter one was dealing with the emergency. Stabilizing the health crisis. That was chapter one. We have just about completed chapter one. We have started chapter two, which is reopening after you have stabilized the health crisis. And were starting to write chapter two. Chapter three, which were going to be begin preparing for soon, is rebuilding and recreating the economy. I dont believe this economy just bounces back. I dont believe its going to be enough just to go back to where the economy was. Mr. Will use this many will use this to play off workers. Many businesses will go through a period where workers were at home, fewer workers, they used more technology and theyre going to decide, we dont need as many workers. Thats going to happen. You will have people who decide, i dont want to go back to work. I would rather stay home and do it from home. Were going to need to stimulate that economy. Government has a role to play in that. It always has. How does government stimulate and lead the way to these new Economic Opportunities . How does that commission come up with new ideas that we can jump start to grow the economy . Thats what the next chapter is going to be about. Its going to be about government working with the private sector, working with businesses to jump start the economy, to stimulate it, to get some big projects going. That get the business sector engaged and confident and believing once again. Gets people into a position where they will invest once again. Because they believe in the economy. Build new airports, which makes this nation more competitive. Thats what were doing at la guardia, thats what were doing at jfk. This nation hasnt built a new airport in 25 years. When are you going to start . Now is the time to start. How do you improve mass transit . How do you rebuild roads and bridges failing so long . Nobody has done a darn thing. How about new technology for education . How about new telemedicine . We learned not everybody has to show up in the doctors office. Invest and build the new Health Care System. We take about a new Health Care System that can do testing and tracing and has Surge Capacity and hospital beds. Lets build that new Public Health system and let government get ahead of it and let government lead the way. New york state has led the way in so many difficult times in history. New york was the first. Im not just saying th ining th new yorker. Read the history books. Read where fdr came up with his great ideas. He used new york as a laboratory when he was governor, and then he brought them nationwide. We were the first. We started it first. People looked to new york for guidance and for example. New york was bold and was creative. They talk about the new york energy, the new york mojo. Yes, that is new york. We did things that other people didnt think could be done. And we did it over and over and over again. Jones beach today, jones beach is indescribably beautiful, yes. Its also something else. It was a tremendous feat of ambition and vision meeting competen competence. Built by robert moses. You know whats funny about jones beach when he started to build jones beach . There was no beach. There was no beach. People assume you have a beach because Mother Nature put a beach there. There was no beach. This was all built. This was all marsh. This is seven miles of fill. They filled a sevenmile stretch 14 feet high. It took so much fill that they dug the channel, a canal, and used that fill to build a beach. How ambitious . You are going to build a beach seven miles long, 14 feet of fill . Thats impossible. No, they did it in three years. And it was a marvel, because they believed in themselves. Because you had smart government. You had competent government. People believed in government. And they do again, because government did work for people here. It saved lives. So lets get that kind of ambition back. Lets get that kind of optimism back. We built new york. Mother nature didnt build this. She gave us a beautiful harbor, but Everything Else was built. And we did it. And we can do it again. Thats what it means to be new york tough and smart and unit and disciplined and loving. Questions . Crowded with a lot of patrons. Some video showing the dublin deck was crowded friday night. I do not know the dublin deck. Im sure its a great establishment. Does anybody know about the yeah. From what i understand, it was raining on friday evening. The bar allowed people to come inside to pick up their food. Thats the explanation conveyed to the police. From what i understand, the police broke it up. I want to take this opportunity to remind everyone that crowding of any kind against what were advising. Everybody should be Wearing Masks. From what i understand, photos showed people not Wearing Masks. Its stupid for the bar, for patrons. I take them at their word that thats what happened. Moving forward, they should be on notice. The enforcement is up to locals. Its supposed to be Curbside Pickup. That doesnt sound like Curbside Pickup. At jones beach, were limiting the number of parking spaces. It looks like half of the spaces are taken. I was wondering when the weather this week gets warmer, we get crowds of people with quarantine fatigue looking for relief, are they going to find theres no place to park and they took an hour trip for nothing and they will go back home . Observation should be technically correct. There should be orange cones in half the number of spots because we set 50 capacity is a max. Thats to make sure we have social distancing on the beach. We can do social distancing on the beach, because were at 50 of max. We have not reached 50 of max. No one has been turned away. As the weather gets warmer, i expect more people will come. The reopening of the economy is going to be across the board. We start gradually. We start slowly. We make sure were all being smart so the virus infection rate stays down. Then we continue to reopen. Based on what he said as the summer goes on, would it be a possibility to have an odd number of license plates or even on certain days . You could. If we keep if we remain smart, you can increase Economic Activity without necessarily increasing the viral spread. Okay . This is a perfect scenario. People start to come out, more people are coming out, but theyre all doing it smart. Theyre wearing ppe, they are staying away from each other, they are using hand sanitizer. The virus infection rate doesnt go up. Or it goes up a little bit. As long as you are controlling that virus infection rate, then keep continuing opening. Thats why i keep hammering the smart part of this. If you are wearing a mask and you are doing a hand sanitizer, you could increase your activity and not infect anyone. Thats what we have been doing so far. But what does next week look like . Next week is a function of what we do today. That sounds too glib. Thats factuall try true. I will tell you the infection rate three days from today. You want to open faster . Be smart. We will calibrate it to the infection spread. What you are protecting against is what they are talking about for other states. That infection rate goes up, number of deaths goes up, the overwhelm the hospitals again. Thats what were protecting against. But if we stay smart and we have been smart look at our numbers compared to other states. Theres a dramatic difference on whats going on. Because we have been hammering the smart. Stay smart, watch the numbers and i will tell you what happens next week when we see what people do today and if those numbers stay down, then keep increasing Economic Activity. Lets do one more. We dont have one more . You like getting the last question. I like the first. Its about testing. Some people get the third degree when they go for a test. Is that what you want happening . Should anyone who wants one get one easily . You get prioritizprioritized. You get the third degree. You get prioritized because what we all of us want is the most likely people infected the fastest. Right . So if you are showing symptoms, go to the front of the line. If you know you were in contact with a covid positive person, go to the front of the line. Because were really worried about you. If uriyou are infected, i want to know so you can isolate and we can start the Contact Tracing. Third degree, yeah. We want to know where you were, what makes you think you were infected, how old you are, because getting that data is very helpful to us. Were now focusing on where cases are coming from. Where do you live . I live in nassau. Where . What community . Are you an essential worker . Have you been working . Just to give us data. Its private but we want to get dad data so we know where the infection is coming from so we can focus on those areas. What if they are denied . Thats not the situation were in. We have extra capacity. We have driveins i passed one. We can do 15,000 tests a day. Were doingtests a day. Were not at capacity level. We have more capacity for the public than we are now using. Thats why i keep encouraging people to come out. Yes, theres a prioritizing. If i think you are positive, i want to get you tested by 1 00 p. M. So you are isolated at 1 20 and you dont infect anyone else. Right . Its about keeping that infection spread number down. All right . Lets enjoy memorial day weekend. Thank you all very much for taking the time. Thank you. There you have it, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo wrapping up his briefing on coronavirus. Welcome back to all of you. We will continue now with dr. Natalie azar, dr. Gupta and Maura Barrett in wildwood, new jersey. Lets go to you, dr. Azar, what was your takeaway . The good news, painful for each family, but the overall up ins of those lost to covid is down dramatically. You know, there was a little blip. 84 yesterday and 109 today, which i dont think is unexpected. We want to see a sustained low rate and dropping and certainly not a trajectory upward. I think thats very good. A couple of other things i like the way he sort of categorized everything, chapter one, chapter two and chapter three. Im drawn to the Public Health infrastructure and telemedicine. Were not going to turn the clock back nor do we necessarily want to go back to where we were before this all happened. We have to learn from it. Those who dont learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I think that a lot of good will potentially come out of the changes and the progression that we made in the health care industry, including the telemedici