Mrs. , and State Governments impacted by the pandemic. Businesses, and State Governments impacted by the pandemic. Governor cuomo good morning. Thank you for being here today. I think you know everyone who is here. Let me start on my far right. Derek rhodes, deputy superintendent of the department of financial services. Worked with me. Part of the attorney generals office. Part of the swat team. We have the president of empire college. Dr. Zucker. Melissa derosa, secretary to the governor. And also the budget director. We have a lot of interesting news today, things are moving. Current status, we still have the trajectory going up. We have not turned the trajectory, nor have we hit the apex. Remember what the line will do, it will go the high point, tip, go down. Were still on the way up the mountain. Number of infections that have been coming in 80 , still, selfresolved. About 15 of the people who test positive require hospitalization. And then there are degrees of hospitalization, right, but the total universe that requires hospitalization is 15 . The we use projection models. We have Cornell Wilde that use projection models, mckenzie, that does projection models, department of health does projection models. The projection models are important because they are projecting the possible trajectory and projecting the possible need, right, so were planning for need, the projection models do that. The projection models are just that. They are models of projections. Theyre not necessarily definitive but its the only device we have to plan, right, follow the data, follow the data, follow the data. The actual hospitalizations have moved at a higher rate than all of the projected models. So that was, obviously, concerning, because that higher infection rate means faster, higher capacity on hospitals and thats the critical point for us is the number of people going to hospitals. Right now what were looking at is about 140,000 cases coming into the hospitals. The Hospital Capacity is 53,000 beds. Thats a problem. We are looking at about 40,000 i. C. U. Cases coming into the hospitals. We have about 3,000 i. C. U. Beds. Thats a challenge. What is an icu bed for these purposes . Basically a bed with a ventilator. The ventilator is the most critical piece of equipment for an intensive care unit bed because this is a respiratory illness, and people need more ventilation than usual. What do we want to do . Reduce the number of cases coming into the hospitals, slow the number of cases coming into the hospitals. That is what dr. Fauci is talking about on television every day. Flatten the curve. Flatten the curve. Flatten the curve. Slow the number of people coming into the hospitals so we can deal with them in the hospitals and we are working on that. Time, increase your Hospital Capacity, right . So try to slow the number of cases coming into the hospitals. Meanwhile, raise your Hospital Capacity. We are working on both simultaneously. We have been from day one. Reduce the number of cases coming in, flatten the curve. Slow the spread of the infection. We are doing everything we can on that. Thats banning nonessential workers. Thats social distancing. Thats closing restaurants, closing gyms. Just flatten the curve. Slow the infection rate. One issue we had in new york city where we had a higher level of density than we wanted, especially in the new York City Parks, especially with young people. I have been as direct as i can and as blunt as i can on young people and the misinformation that they have. You can catch the coronavirus. You may think you are a superhero. Youre really not. You can catch it. And you can transfer it, which makes you dangerous to the people who you love. But the new York City Parks have been a problem. I saw the problem myself firsthand. I spoke to mayor de blasio. I spoke to speaker johnson. I said, come up with a plan in 24 hours that everybody agreed with. They came up with a plan. We implemented that plan. I signed off on the plan. The plan is going to pilot closing streets in new york city, because we have much less traffic in new york city. We have many fewer vehicles in new york city. Open streets. People want to walk, get open air. A less dense area, so so pilot closing streets to cars opening , streets to pedestrians. The well also enact mandatoy playground social density. Its probably a new concept. No close Contact Sports in a playground. No basketball, for example. You cannot do it. We are asking people to do that on a voluntary basis. If theres noncompliance with that, we will then make it mandatory, and we will actually close the playgrounds. We do not what do that, because playgrounds are a place to go out and get open air but you have to exercise social density even in a playground. And, again, its voluntary. The mayor is going to make it clear that this is important to the people of the city. If it doesnt happen, we will actually close down the playgrounds. I dont want to do that. But we do need to reduce the spread of the infection and that is what is most important. This is very interesting, because the evidence suggests that the density control and,res may be working, again, we are doing this from projections, but look at this, because it is interesting. This past sunday, the projection werehat hospitalizations doubling every two days. Ok . On monday, the number suggested that the hospitalizations were doubling every 3. 4 days. On tuesday, the projection suggested that the hospitalizations were doubling every 4. 7 days. Now, that is almost too good to be true. But the theory is, given the density that were dealing with, it spreads very quickly but if you reduce the density, you can reduce the spread very quickly. So these projections, i watched them bounce all over the place , and i dont place a great deal of stock in any one projection. All due respect to the great academics and statisticians doing it. But this is a very good sign and a positive sign. Again, im not 100 sure it holds or its accurate. In the arrows are headed right direction, and that is always better than the arrows headed in the wrong direction. So to the extent people say, boy, these are burdensome requirements, social distancing, no restaurants, no nonessential workers, yes, they are burdensome. By the way, they are effective and theyre necessary and the evidence suggests, at this point, that they have slowed the hospitalizations. And this is everything. Slowing the hospitalization rates, coming into the hospitals are everything so the hospitals can deal with the rate of people coming in. At the same time, increased Hospital Capacity. What is the high point . You see that line in the beginning. What we are studying is what is the high point of that line . What is the apex of that line . That is the point of the greatest number of people coming into the Hospital System so thats our greatest load is the apex. And when is that going to happen . Again, that is a projection. Again, that moves around. But the current projection is that could be in 21 days. So ramp up the Hospital Capacity to make to be able to handle that apex volume. How do you ramp up Hospital Capacity . You ramp up beds. You ramp up staff, and you ramp up the equipment and the ventilators are the problem in equipment, as weve discussed many times. Where are we on that, beds . We may need 140,000. We have 53,000. Thats the existing capacity of hospitals. We told all hospitals they have to increase their capacity by 50 . I told them that myself on a Conference Call yesterday. This is a burden for the hospitals to now say you have to increase capacity 50 but i have to tell you, they were very generous about it and they understood what we were dealing with. And they were eager to step up to the plate. If you increase Hospital Capacity by 50 , that gets you 27,000 bets on top of the existing. It takes you to 80,000. Some hospitals, i asked as a goal, try to increase by 100 your capacity. 50 was the minimum. The goal was 100 . I believe some hospitals were actually will actually try to do that, and i encouraged them to try to do that as impossible as it sounds. But now is the time to be aggressive and do things youve never done before. If some of them do that, and i believe some of them will, that would be additional 5,000 beds. We get to 85,000 beds. Fema, army corps of engineers, what were doing at the Javits Center, what were doing in the westchester convention center, westbury campus, that takes us to 90,000. That. S. Navy ship comfort they dispatched, that would backfill from the hospitals, that gets you to 90,000. If we take all of the state dormitories in downstate new york, that could get us to an additional 29,000 beds. Wed be at 119,000 beds. Youre still not at the 140,000 that you need, but then, we are looking at hotels. We are looking at former nursing homes, converting facilities to make up the differential. So a lot, creative, aggressive, but in life, you do what you have to do. And this is thats what were doing on the bed capacity. Protective equipment, we have been shopping around the world. We have a whole team thats doing it. Right now, we have enough protective equipment, gloves, masks, gowns, for all the hospitals statewide that were dealing with it. I put down a shipment to new york city yesterday. Today, no hospital, no nurse, no doctor can say legitimately, i dont have protective equipment. Right now and for foreseeable future, we have a supply. We do not yet have secured a supply for three weeks from now, four weeks from now, five weeks from now, but we are still shopping. And taking care of this immediate need was also good news and a good job by the team. And, again, we are still shopping for more equipment. Ventilators, ventilators, ventilators. We need 30,000. We have in the existing Hospital System 4,000 ventilators. This is just in the normal operation of hospitals, etc. We have purchased 7,000, and we are still shopping. Federal government has sent 4,000. Were exploring splitting. Where one ventilator could do two patients. Italy has had to do this because they were forced to do it. I want to see if we can study it and do it a little smarter and have a little more time experimenting with it. But were looking at splitting the ventilators. Were still working with the federal government to try to find more ventilators, but that is our single greatest challenge are the ventilators. Again, the i. C. U. Beds, that really means a ventilated bed. Because, again, this is the numberone piece of equipment that we need. You have beds, you have equipment, you need staff, and you need staff understanding that some staff is going to get sick, and they are going to be out, so we have been working on putting together a surge health care force. Go back to the retirees, go back to nurses and doctors who may not be in the hospital direct medical care occupation and ask them to sign up for possible reserve duty. God bless them. 40,000 people have signed up as a surge health care force. 2,000 physicians, anesthesiologists, emergency room technicians, nurse practitioners, nurse, respiratory, rns, l. P. N. s, 40,000 signed up. Thats a big, big deal. You can create beds, you can find the equipment, you have to have the staff and you have to have the staff for those additional beds which are not now in the Hospital System. And you have to have staff when the existing staff gets ill. Or, by the way, just cant work the hours that were going to need people to be working. So thats very good. This is also very exciting. I dont know if anyone has done this. We have talked about the emotional stress that this brings on people and the Mental Health stress and the Mental Health challenges. No one is really talking about this. You know, were all concerned about the immediate critical need, the life and death of the immediate situation, which is right, but dont underestimate the Emotional Trauma that people are feeling and the Emotional Health issues. We ask for Mental Health professionals to voluntarily sign up to provide online Mental Health services. 6,000 Mental Health professionals agreed to volunteer to provide Mental Health services for people who need it. How beautiful is that . And the hotline, 18448639314, you can call that hotline, you can schedule an appointment with the Mental Health professional totally free to talk to them about what youre feeling and what stress you are feeling, and, again, god bless the 6,000 Mental Health professionals who are doing this 100 free. On top of whatever they have to do in their normal practice. And i am sure in their normal practice, they are busy, so this is really an extraordinary, extraordinary step by them. Federal government, i spoke with President Trump several times. I spoke with him last night. I spoke with him this morning. I have spoken to people in the white house who are handling with these operations. I have spoken with the vice president. Kushner,oken to jared who is a new yorker. He knows new york. Hes working in the white house. Hes been extraordinarily helpful on all of these situations. What were what were working on is a common challenge. No one has these ventilators and no one ever anticipated a situation where you would need this number of ventilators to deal with the Public Health emergency. So we have purchased everything that can be purchased. Were now in a situation that were trying to accelerate production of these ventilators , and a ventilator is a complicated piece of equipment. The president and his team, i think, are using the d. P. A. Well because its basically a form it is a leverage tool when youre dealing with private companies, right . We need your help. We can demand your help, or you could agree to help, and we need you to step up and increase production. Even with that, theres a rampup time for a company to put together the supply chain, put together the workforce and get these things up and running. R, is going toea help. General motors is going to help. The problem is our timeline is so short. Were looking at an apex 21 days, in that range, to get these ventilators and these business consortiums put together, supply chain, design team, ramped up and delivered , 30,000 ventilators is an extraordinarily difficult task. And its something that our team is working on with the white house team, and i want to thank the president for his cooperation and his team for their cooperation. Were getting very creative. Were talking to countries around the world as well as new companies that could do production. Were also talking to the white house about another concept. New york has the greatest need in terms of numbers. New york also has the most critical need in terms of timing, right . We talk about our apex. We talk about that curve. Different localities, different regions around the country are going to have different curves. We are in some ways first. Our case numbers went up first. Our trajectory is first. By a long shot. Different regions will have their curve at different times. What i said to the president and his team was, look, rather than saying we have to provide equipment for the entire country at one time, lets talk about addressing the critical need in that hot spot. Once that hot spot turns because you have an apex and then you have a curve and the curve is relatively short once you address that hot spot with the intensity, intense equipment, intense personnel, then shift to the next hotspot and have more of a rolling deployment across the country than a static deployment, right . I was in the federal government at h. U. D. I worked on dozens of disasters. You deal with the disaster in front of you at that time and then you move on to the next disaster. And i think that rolling deployment could work here and on behalf of new york, i said we will be 100 helpful. We need help from the entire country right now. We need resources from the entire country right now. And because our apex is first , and our numbers are highest, but the apex high point will be sequential across the country, so i said to the white house, send us the equipment that we need, send us the personnel. As soon as we get past our critical moment, we will redeploy that equipment and personnel to the next hot spot. And i will personally guarantee it and personally manage it. So if you send us 15,000 ventilators, and then after our curve, los angeles needs 15,000 ventilators, we can take the equipment from here, we can take the personnel from here, we can take the lessons from here. You know, we go first. Were going to learn things that nobody else has learned because were going to be the first one through the chute. And i personally guarantee that we will bring that equipment, well bring that personnel, well bring that Technical Assistance to the next hot spot. I said to the president , ill be part of going to the next hot spot with our team. Were asking the country to help us. We will return the favor. And we are all in this together. And were asking for their help and their consideration, and we will repay it with dividends. The senate is also considering a 2 trillion bill, which is, quoteunquote, relief for businesses, individuals, and governments. It would really be terrible for the state of new york. The 2 trillion bill, what does it mean for new york State Government . It means 3. 8 billion. 3. 8 billion sounds like a lot of money. The budget director can talk you through the numbers. But were looking at a shortfall, ofenue 9 billion, 10 billion, 15 billion. This response to this virus has probably already cost us 1 billion. And it will probably cost us several billion dollars when were done. New york city only gets 1. 3 billion from this package. That is a drop in the bucket as to need. I spoke to our house delegation, congressional delegation this morning. I said to them, this doesnt do it. You know, i understand the senate theory and the republican theory, but we need the house to make adjustments. In the house bill that went over, new york state got 17 billion. In the senate bill, we get 3. 8 billion. And, well, you just big spending. Were not a big spending state. I cut taxes every year. I have the lowest growth rate of the state budget in modern political history. Ok . Are frugal, and we are efficient. Im telling you these numbers dont work, and i told the house members that we really need their help. In terms of numbers, total tested, were up to 130,000 people. New tests, were up to 12,000. As of yesterday, about 28 of all testing nationwide has been performed by the state of new york. State of new york is doing more testing than any state in the United States of america. And im very proud of the team on how weve mobilized and gotten this testing up and running. People ask, how does the testing work . Any hospital in this state can perform testing. You can walk into a hospital in buffalo, new york, if you show the symptoms and meet the protocol, you can be tested. Strategically, we deployed testing in the most dense areas. Where do we set up the drivethrus, etc. Why . Because were hunting positives. Were hunting positives so we can isolate them and reduce the spread. Youre more likely to get positives in a high positive area, right . Set up the drivethru in the bronx, first, you set up a drivethru in chautauqua county, you will get more positives in the bronx. And that is what we want, but anyone, anywhere in the state, you have symptoms, youre concerned, you can walk into any hospital, that hospital can get a test performed. Number of positive cases, were up to 30,000. Number of new cases, 5,000. Again, you see the numbers. 13,000 sorry. 17,000, new york city. 4,000 in westchester. 3,000 in nassau county. Relatively, westchester, we have dramatically slowed what was an exponential increase. So, again, on the good news side, can you slow the rate of infection . Yes. How do you know . Look at what we did in westchester. That was the hottest cluster in the United States of america. We closed the schools. We closed gatherings. We brought in testing. And we have dramatically slowed the increase. Nassau county has 3,000. Theyre relatively right behind westchester. They were like at zero when westchester had started. So we can slow it, and we have slowed it. Again, you see it spreading across the state, which we said it would. Current numbers, 30,000 tested positive. 12 of those who test positive are hospitalized. 3 of the positives are in i. C. U. Ok . This is the breath time again. I am anxious. I am nervous. What does it mean . 30,000 tested positive. 12 are in the hospital. 3 are in i. C. U. If you look at those 3 , theyre going to be predominantly senior citizens, people with underlying illnesses, people with emphysema, people with a compromised immune system. Thats what this effort is all about. All the noise, all the energy, its about that 3 . Take a deep breath. Now, that 3 , thats my mother, thats your mother, thats your sister. These are people we love. These are our grandparents. And were going to do everything we can to protect every one of them. And i give the people of the state of new york my word that were doing it. But were talking about 3 of the people who talked positive tested positive who were worrying about. Most impacted states, were 30,000. Next closest state is new jersey with 3000. California, 2000. This is really a dramatic differential, and this is what i argue to anyone who will listen. We have 10 times the problem that the next state has, which is new jersey. You compare us to california, which is larger in terms of population, we have 15 times the problem. Now, you have to ask yourself, why . Why does new york have such a high number . And, again, in the totality, we understand what it means, but why does new york have such a high number . And this is my personal opinion. I like to make sure i separate facts from personal opinion. The facts, i give you the best facts i have. And, again, the data changes day to day. But i give you exactly what i have on a daytoday basis. Personal opinion, why does new york have so many more cases than any other state . How can it be . Youre 15 times the number of california. I mean, it really is breathtaking when you think about it. State of massachusetts, we are 30 times the number of cases. So why, is the question people ask me. Two answers. Answer one is, because we welcome people from across the globe. We have people coming here we have people who came here from china or came here from italy, who came here from countries all around the globe. We have International Travelers who were in china and who were in italy and who were in korea and who came here. And i have no doubt that the virus was here much earlier than we even know. And i have no doubt that the virus was here much earlier than it was in any other state, because those people come here first. Thats the first answer. The second answer is, because we are close. Because we are close. We talk about the virus and how it transfers in a dense area. Its literally because we are close. Because we live close to one another. Because we are close to one another on the streets. Because we live in close communities. Because were close to one another on the bus. Were close to one another in the restaurant. Were close to one another in the movie theater. And we have one of the most dense, close environments in the country. And thats why the virus communicated the way it did. Our closeness makes us vulnerable. Our closeness makes us vulnerable. That spatial closeness makes us vulnerable. But its true that your greatest weakness is also your greatest strength. And our closeness is what makes us who we are. That is what new york is. Our closeness is what makes us special. Our acceptance, our openness is what makes us special. Its what makes us feel so connected one to another. Its what makes us so accepting of one another. It is the closeness that makes us the human beings that we are. The closeness is that new york humanity that i think exists nowhere else. The closeness is what makes our sense of community. And there is a gentleman who i still look to for guidance and for leadership and for inspiration. Hes not here anymore for you. Hes still here for me. But he said things more profound and more beautifully than most other people ever have. And one of the things he said that is so appropriate for today we believe in a single , fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that i could write what a proper government should be, the idea of family, mutuality, the sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all, feeling one anothers pain, sharing one anothers blessings, reasonably, honestly, fairly, without respect to race or sex or geography or political affiliation. That is new york. It is that closeness. That concept of family, of community. Thats what makes new york new york, and thats what made us vulnerable here. But its also that closeness and that connection and that humanity and that sharing that is our greatest strength, and that is what is going to overcome at the end of the day. I promise you that. I can see how new yorkers are responding. I can see how new yorkers are treating one another. I see the 6,000 Mental Health volunteers. I see the 40,000 Health Care Workers stepping up. I see the vendors calling me saying, i can help. Thats new york. Thats new york. And that, my friends, is undefeatable. And i am glad, in some ways, that were first with this situation, because we will overcome, and we will show the other communities across this country how to do it. Well be there for them. We want them to be there for us, and we will be there for each other as we always have been. [inaudible] Governor Cuomo we have no anticipation of having to prioritize ventilator usage. Our goal is to have a ventilator for anyone who needs one. You showed out numbers that showed you are optimistically at 15,000, and you say you are going to need 40,000. So some nitty gritty questions. Where are those ventilators that have come in from fema going . Did you get anything from the white house that theyll send more than 4,000 that they have committed already . And what is the plan to congregate that number the same way you planned to increase hospital beds . Governor cuomo its a good question, jimmy. First, the ventilators that are coming in are putting in the stockpile. Well deploy them from the stockpile as we need them. Literally deploy them on a need basis, right . So if one hospital calls up and says, we are overwhelmed. We willhat we need, be in a position to deploy. The increase of beds is within our control, right . There are beds in this state. Theyre not hospital beds, and you have to figure out how to convert them to hospital beds , and you have to figure out how to get access to them but we have beds. So that is a logistical, operational challenge. How do you turn a dorm room into a hospital bed, right . How do we build a hospital bed in the Javits Center . The federal government does not have them either. No one has a stockpile of these. The federal government has to acquire them the same way we have to acquire them. Im working with the white house in creative ways to acquire them. Getting companies to ramp up, getting companies to retrofit other machines. This rolling deployment methodology. But nobody has them. There is no medical stockpile in washington that magically can make them appear. There was a report in 2015 where the state suggested or a task force suggested maybe new w york should increase the stockpile. Any reason that wasnt done . Governor cuomo jimmy, thats not the fact and you know it. Read the fact checkers. There was an Advisory Commission lifed law and the life and the law, that had a chart in 2015 that said, if you had the 1918 spanish flu pandemic, you may need x number of ventilators. There is no state in the United States that bought ventilators for the 1918 spanish flu pandemic. The federal government did not buy ventilators for the 1918 spanish flu pandemic. Nobody in the world bought ventilators in preparation for a 1918 spanish flu pandemic. Cases you areof reporting, how many have resolved . And the woman that came back from iran, is she clear now . [inaudible] Governor Cuomo yes. Short answer is yes. Do you know the number of people who are resolved . Does anyone have that here besides the hopkins number . We have hundreds and hundreds of people who left the hospital and those are individuals that have resolved and there are many individuals that never came into the hospital. We can try to get you an exact number on that. [inaudible] well, were following the c. D. C. Guidelines and recommendations that after seven days, if you are positive, and after seven days of being positive as long as you are more than 72 hours without symptoms, then you can go back home. Governor cuomo this is the best data, ok . This is johns hopkins. Its every case since china. 435,000. 19,000 deaths. And, again, i bet you dollars to doughnuts, you look at the 19,000, senior citizens, compromised immune system, emphysema, etc. Recoveries, 100,000. Roughly 25 . Pending 300,000. , the recoveries are recoveries. You get it. People i know, they stay home for two weeks, and they then test negative. You can test negative in two weeks. You can test negative in three weeks. We can test negative in one week after you have it. That is going to be the vast overwhelming number of people. The biggest number when this is done and we can go back and test the biggest number is going to be people who had it, who resolved, who never knew they had it. Thats going to be the biggest number. And the reason we want to get to that test is because when you talk about restarting the economy, you have a test that says you, andrew, were exposed to it in february and by the way, you are recovered and you have the antibodies, go back to work. How many icu cases at this point Governor Cuomo sorry. I cut off jesse. When i cut him off he gets , annoyed with me. Im kidding. The number of icu cases are a third of the beds that are currently available in the state, do we still not have a figure as to how much the availability of those beds currently is . So its 3,000 minus [indiscernible] Governor Cuomo the i. C. U. Beds for our purposes are beds with ventilators, ok. Thats really we can create today more i. C. U. Beds with the ventilators we already have. Inhouse. Right. So we have 14,000 ventilators. If we had to today, we could create 14,000 ventilated beds, if we were bumping up against capacity. Is that correct . Thats correct. I think the term i. C. U. Bed in this world that were living in right now is different and so a Recovery Room with a ventilator is an i. C. U. Bed. I think thats fixing on the exact numbers. But we have asked all hospitals for that information as well. [indiscernible] what about the state only has about 7,000 licensed respiratory therapists. We have 160 that have signed up. Are there plans to try to increase that number . These are the experts that kept people breathing. We put out a call for about 1. 2 million additional Health Care Workers to come to new york state. Thats going on a rolling basis. So youll see many of these numbers, which the governor presented today, increase exponentially as those calls are going out. Its not just instate. Weve also asked for out of state retirees and weve had Health Care Workers volunteer from connecticut, new jersey and other parts of the country as well. And now were arranging for them to come to this area as needed. If you notice on that list , there were respiratory therapists in there who have volunteered as well. Just to piggyback on that question, weve seen reports from federal sources saying that basically new york city will run out of icu beds by friday. Are you seeing similar reports and are you reacting to those . Governor cuomo i didnt see those reports. Im reacting to the numbers that we have. You saw the numbers. The current number of i. C. U. Beds with ventilators, thats one number. If you bring our the ventilators we have in hand and add those to beds, that number goes up 14,000. And how quickly was that happen . Governor cuomo we can move them in a day. Reporter is that a stockpile here in albany . Is it close to new york city . Governor cuomo the stockpile there are multiple stockpiles which we did when we ramped up the whole disaster Emergency Management system. So we have multiple stock piles. We have these placed in multiple stock piles. We have to go to the city, theres a shorter trip. We have a stockpile on long island, stockpile in mid hudson valley. Stockpile in albany, stockpile in my basement in case the stockpile runs out. Reporter youre not building that out as of yet . Governor cuomo we have the ventilators in the stockpiles. We have not brought them from the stockpile to a hospital because we dont have a hospital who is called up and said, i need a ventilated bed. [talking simultaneously] [indiscernible] providersre medical being deployed . Are they being deployed to the front lines, are they being sent to work in other parts of the hospital or . Governor cuomo the workers . Reporter the reserve medical providers who are being called up and asked to volunteer. Governor cuomo theyre not yet being deployed. Unless im incorrect. I dont believe theyre being deployed yet. Theyre reserved in case first, theyre reserved for two purposes. You open new beds, you now need staff for the new beds. We open up a dormitory, 200 beds. You dont have now you need staff to do the 200 bed. Or you have a hospital that has a severe shortage of workers because of hours or sickness, we would back fill. But i dont believe were now deploying the reserves. Thats correct. Reporter should people be concerned about the rollbacks of some regulations . Record keeping, medical malpractice protections and other regulations that have been rolled back . Were looking at those issues as well. There are some concerns that have been raised but as we mentioned, at Previous Press conferences, the governor said we should look at our rules and regulations and adapt accordingly. Were going to do that as well. Governor cuomo we did waive i was on the phone with all the hospital administrators. The department of health let me say this in a nice way, dont worry. The department of health has multiple regulations to run the best Health System in the United States of america. And those regulations make it so. The regulations can sometimes get in the way of expedition and facilitation and mobilization. So we said, in this case, were going to relax many of the regulations so they can staff up, they can increase capacity, you know, you ask a hospital to double capacity. We have all sorts of space regulations, you have to so you need flexibility for them to do what were asking them to do. [talking simultaneously] reporter [indiscernible] what about the cure is worse than the disease mentality . Governor cuomo im confused. Reporter [indiscernible] Governor Cuomo if i need to work with new york city. But rikers is run by new york city. Did you have a point . No. I was going to say new york city is already doing that on their own. So its not something that they need us on. But we talked to new york city 77 times a day. So if that conversation needs to be had, it will be had. Governor cuomo 78, to be exact. Reporter [indiscernible] Governor Cuomo no. Reporter do you plan to try to fix that then . Governor cuomo i cant. You need to be a congress person. You need to be a senator. I communicate with all of them. I understand the washington bureaucracy. I was there. I passed a bill when i was h. U. D. Secretary. I know how hard it is. But i also know how high the stakes are here. You look at the loss in the revenue, what you guys have been talking about to me, how do you do a state budget with that dramatic loss in revenue . Rob has been saying, well, the federal government is going pass a stimulus package that delivers additional funding to State Governments. Ok. Heres the package. It gives us 3. 8 billion. The hole is as high as 15 billion. How do you plug a 15 billion hole with 3. 8 billion . You dont. Thank you, governor. How do you respond to the mentality out there, the philosophy that the cure is worse than the disease and the suggestion by the president that he might want to open up the country by easter . Governor cuomo look, i believe its part its part language, right . Nobody will say it. It is sustainable to keep the economy closed. Its not sustainable. We all get that. China got it. South korea got it. Etc. Thats point one. Point two, everyone agrees, i believe, in this state, we do everything we can to save a life. We are not going to triage and say, well, these were old people, these were vulnerable people, they had to die sometime soon anyway. So lets move on. I dont believe any american believes that. I know new yorkers dont believe that. And as governor of the state of new york, i can swear to you i would never do that. So then you have two parallel thoughts. You have to get the economy running and you have to protect every life that you can. I believe theres a more refined strategy than we are now talking about. I dont think its binary. I dont think you close down the whole economy, which is what we did. I did too. And then open up the whole society to business as usual. We now have learned that theres a risk stratfication quotient. Younger people have less risk. People who have the virus and are resolved have less risk. Start that economy by bringing in those recovered people, those younger people who are less at risk. And start moving that machine that way. Start restarting the economy that way. Which is also the best Public Health strategy, right . To the extent you have a young person who is going out to the park, not playing basketball, because theyre not allowed to do that, but theyre going out, theyre talking to friends, etc. Theyre then coming back into the house with an older person. That is not a good Public Health strategy. So, there is a path that refines the Public Health strategy and starts growing the economy. And i think thats what we have to work through. Reporter will the feds roll back the restrictions, did that effect you . Do you automatically roll back, do you keep in place according to your own speed . Governor cuomo the federal government has done guidelines. They call them guidelines because they are guidelines. Then states can follow the guidelines. States can fashion the guidelines to fit their specific circumstance. Theres no doubt that new york has a different and bigger problem than anywhere else in the country. Right . Thats every number you see, thats every fact you know. So theres no doubt we have a greater challenge here in new york than city numbers and one of the most intense economies. So that all has to be taken into consideration. And i dont think there is any cookie cutter you know, what works for new york i dont know necessarily is going to work for tulsa or san antonio. So well come up with a plan that works for new york and the federal government isnt saying we mandate anything. Theyre saying were offering guidelines. Reporter what do you make of the president s team saying that anyone who has visited new york city should selfquarantine for two weeks . And second question, will you selfquarantine since you were in new york city yesterday . Governor cuomo selfquarantine in new york state . Reporter the president says that anyone who traveled to new york city should selfquarantine for two weeks. Governor cuomo in new york . Reporter in new york city. Governor cuomo no. If you were in new york city, you must quarantine in new york state. You dont have to go back to new york city to quarantine. Im going to quarantine in new york state. Reporter what do you make of that dictum and Governor Cuomo that is a medical advisory. Most important thing in life is to know what you dont know. I dont know medicine. I would turn to the doctor. I think you need to follow the c. D. C. Guidelines and the c. D. C. Guidelines recommend that you stay a distance away social distancing as well, whether its in new york or not, and this is beyond new york, as the governor has mentioned. Its not just in new york, these cases. Reporter theyre saying if youve been to new york city you should quarantine for two weeks, right . I would not follow that. I believe that you should follow the guidelines in general, that you should social distancing. If you were in new york and you go somewhere else these cases are all over the country. Its not just new york. Were at the forefront, as the governor has said. But its elsewhere. Governor cuomo last question because you were so polite and you wait. [laughter] reporter is new york going to have to revert to emergency loans . If so he, what would that look like . If so, what would that look like . [indiscernible] Governor Cuomo if we dont get more funding from the feds, i dont know how we write the budget. And thats why this senate bill is so troublesome. I know the politics of play nice and dont say any dont put any pressure on any other elected official, otherwise theyll say you have sharp elbows and you dont play nice in the sand box. This is not a time to play nice in the sandbox. I represent the people of the state of new york. I get paid to represent them. Im an attorney, im an advocate. Im a new yorker, born and bred. Im new york tough. If you are hurting the people of the state, im going to do everything i can do to defend them. And im going to fight for the people of new york. To the best of my ability. We need more federal help than this bill gives us. The house bill would have given us 17 billion. The senate bill gives us 3 billion. I mean, thats a dramatic, dramatic difference. Im going to go to work. Thank you very much, guys. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] Governor Cuomo not that this wasnt work. Its like a pleasure, though. Pleasure. Television has changed since it cspan began 41 years ago, but our Mission Continues to provide an unfiltered view of government. 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Watch cspans washington journal, live at seven. Join the discussion. Announcer vermont governor phil scott and members of his administration held a press briefing in montpelier earlier today on the States Coronavirus response efforts. The governor outlined the specifics of his newly issued stay home, stay safe order, calling it one of the strongest in the nation. Good morning, everyone. We will begin with an update from dr. Levine. Dr. Levine good morning, everyone. I would like you to refer to my little lacquered here just to give you the beginning of the update