Gov. Cuomo masks up. Good morning. Its a Beautiful Day in new york city. A pleasure to be here. Let me introduce the people here. From my far left, dr. Jim, who has been working with us for many years on the stateside, now the head of empire state college. My daughter Mariah Kennedy cuomo, one of three. No favorites. Show her participation today will be clear in a couple minutes. Melissa derosa, secretary of the governor. Lets give you the facts about where we are today. The number of total hospitalizations is 9600. Thats lower than yesterday, barely. Basically flat. Mentioned yesterday, the weekend reporting numbers, and to be a little erratic sometimes, we are not quite sure why this whole reporting mechanism has been in place a couple months. The first time every hospital is reported every day to the state. But its better than going up. You see the overall total hospitalizations is down. Down. Of intubations is good news. And the number of new hospitalizations is also down. Number, howmportant many people came in yesterday with a diagnosis of covid into hospitals, or people who were technically in a hospital who have been diagnosed. Sunday is a different day, operationally for hospitals, but again, the numbers are down. So it is good news. Number always the worst when we are going through the facts of the day. News, number of lives lost, 230. Technically up from yesterday. Even allowing for the sunday reporting. Is painful, painful news for all new yorkers and we will remember those families in our thoughts and prayers. Theres no doubt we are coming down the mountain. Trailly question is, what we take, what path we take coming down the mountain, how fast does that decline continue . Does the decline continue . That is purely a function of what we do. None of this is preordained. None of this is decided by any factor other than our own behavior. You tell me how well new yorkers socially comply with distancing, etc. , and i will tell you what the infection rate is doing. Its that simple. Everything we have done thus far haves work. That is why the numbers are coming down. You tell me what we do today and tomorrow and i will tell you the infection rate in the next few days. From theave said beginning is the key is testing and tracing and isolating. Its very hard to do. Easy to say. No one has ever done this before. Weve never put this kind of testing regimen in place. Have never hade a tracing operation. Nothing anywhere near this magnitude. We have never done isolation, quarantine. It has never happened before, but we do it we have to do and this is what we have to do to monitor the infection rate and control it. Thats what we are doing. We laid out a very specific reopening plan yesterday. We studied all the state plans. We studied reopening plans of around. S the world we incorporated all the best practices. I think we probably have the most specific plan for metrics and measuring to make these decisions. It is basically a mathematical formula if you look at that. I think thats the way we should do it and proceed. Following the data, learning the lessons, following the science, and about being smart. Everybody is emotional. We are getting more emotional. Theres more stress, more anxiety, more pressure on all of us. We want to get on with life. We want to paycheck. We want to make sure our job is there. But still a time to be smart. We dont act emotionally. We dont act we act based on logic and science. But we have to remind ourselves every day because the pressure is to just respond to the emotion. We are going through a devastating and costly moment in history. Costly on every level. The number of lives lost, the economic impact, the personal impact, Substance Abuse has gone up. Mental Health Issues have gone up. Pricee paid a very high for what we are going through. But the hope is that we learn from it and that we are the better for it. The pain. Lets make sure we benefit from the gain. People also true, and can understand, this is a life lesson. You get as old as i am, you go through some tough. Periods in life. Its a fact. That will happen. You live life long enough, you will go through a difficult period. I have gone through my share. But you take those periods and you try to learn from them and try to grow. Thats the best you can do with it. When youyou learn so move forward, you are the better for it . And we do that as a society also. That is the concept of build it back better. We dont want to go through all of this and replace what was there before. Replacing what was there before is a starting point. We want to replace, but we want to improve. We want to be better for this experience. We want to build it back better. Thatre smart enough to do as a country, as a state after 9 11. We went through pain. We came back stronger. You could argue more united as a country and as a state, more aware of our vulnerabilities. And yes, greatest country on the state in theest nation, our opinion. But we were vulnerable to terrorist attacks. So we learn from it and we got stronger. We got better. We have incorporated security into our life in a way that was unimaginable before 9 11. Hurricane sandy, superstorm sandy. Devastated thousands of lives. Billions of dollars in damage. We built back and we built back before. Han we were we didnt replace what was. We improved almost everything. Issing construction different. The power greatest different. Infrastructure is different. You go through these situations and you learn. Thats what we have to do here. We have to have a Better Public Health system. We should never go through this again, what we went through with shortages. Ppe, staff that can never happen again. How we use telemedicine, we have to learn and we have to grow. It was vital to what we did here. We have to make sure we are better at it. Our Public Transportation system, we are learning. Tonight, we will shut the subways for the first time ministry. Why . Because they have to be disinfected. Who ever heard of disinfecting a subway car . Now you learn. You have to disinfect subway cars. Figure out how to do it so you can say to people who use the subways, dont worry, it is safe. Thats a starting point for Public Transportation. One of the areas we can learn from his education. Aboute all been talking teleeducation, virtual education, remote education. Done. S a lot that can be the old model of everybody sits in a classroom and the teacher is in front of that classroom and teaches that class, and you do that all across the city, all across the state, all these buildings, all these physical classrooms. Why, with all the technology you have . And we have been exploring different alternatives with technology. We have classrooms in this state that have technology, they are talking to students on long island with a teacher from staten island, with students from around the world participating with technology. Hearing that one teacher. If you look at the technology, it looks like all the different students are in one classroom. Lets learn from that and learn from this experience. We did a lot of remote learning. Frankly, we werent prepared to do it. We didnt have advanced warning. But we did what we had to do. The teachers and the Education System did a great job. But theres more we can do. We are still working on providing some students with the technology, with the tablets, etc. Some teachers needed training and they werent ready for it. Lets take this experience and learn how we can do differently and better with the Education System in terms of technology and virtual education, etc. That is something we are actively working on through this process. Its not about just reopening schools. When we are reopening schools, lets open a better school. Lets open a smarter Education System. I want to thank the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. We will be working with them on this project. Bill gates is a visionary in many ways. His ideas and thoughts on technology and education, he has spoken about for years. I think we now have a moment in history where we can actually incorporate and advance those ideas. When does change come to a society . We all talk about change and advancement, but really, we like control and the status quo. It is hard to change the status quo, but you get moments in history were people say im ready. Im ready for change. I got it. I think this is one of those moments. I think education as well as other topics is a topic where people will say look, i have been reflecting and thinking. I learned a lot. We all learned a lot about how vulnerable we are and how much we have to do. Talking about really revolutionizing education. And its about time. One point i want to make about reopening. Not just in the state, but all across the nation. Theres a conversation that is going on about reopening, that we are not necessarily explicit about, but which is very important. Theres a question debated right under the surface. And the decisions we make on reopening are really profound decisions. Whichndamental question we are not articulating is how much is a human life worth . How much do we think a human life is worth . Theres a cost of staying closed, no doubt. Economic cost, personal cost. There is also a cost of reopening quickly. Either option has a cost. You stay closed, there is a cost. You reopen quickly, theres a cost. Reopen, the lower the economic cost. Cost,e higher the human because the more lives lost. Friends, is a decision we are really making. What is that balance . What is that tradeoff . It is very real. If you now look at the projection models of how many lives will be lost, you will notice they changed recently. Why did they change . They went up dramatically. Why . Because now they are factoring in the reopening plans and reopening schedules that states are announcing. Governments , fema, has increased 200,000 theto number of daily cases by june. Think about that increase. Hme, the Foundation Model billrted by gaetz gates, which is the preferred model by the white house, when they were projecting deaths by august 4, they projected in early april 60,000 deaths. They projected mid april, 60,300 deaths. Actually a little lower. The new projection is 134,000 deaths. Deaths it go from 60,000 ,000 deaths . This is the model which the white house relies on. When the director of the institute was asked why those revisions happened, the director in mosting mobility u. S. States as well as the easing of social distancing statess, expected and 31 by may 11, indicating growing contacts among people to promote transmission of the coronavirus. Thats a very nice way of saying when you accelerate the reopening, you will have more people coming in contact with other people, you are relaxing social distancing. The more people in contact with other people, the higher the infection rate of the spread of the virus. The more people get infected, the more people die. We know that. And thats why the projection models are going up. Theres a cost of staying closed. Theres also a cost of reopening quickly. Truth that werd are all dealing with. Lets be honest about it and lets be open about it and lets not camouflage the actual terms of the discussion we are having. To the question comes down how much is a human life worth . You see the projection model go from 25 to 200,000 cases from fema. You see the number of deaths go from 60,000 to 134,000. How much is a human life worth . That is the real discussion. One is admitting openly or freely. But we should. Life, i say cost of human a human life is priceless, period. Our reopening plan doesnt have a tradeoff. Our reopening plants says monitor their data, monitor the transmission rate, monitor the hospitalization rate, monitor the death rate. A it goes up, you have circuit breaker. You stop. You close the valve on reopening. But it is a conversation that we should have openly. Hard conversation, painful conversation, controversial conversation, yes. All of the above. Rights also the conversation because those are the decisions we are making. Also as we are going through that ouris important leadership be factual and productive and united, because this is a time when government has to work and government on all levels has to work. And the federal government has to work. It has to work now, better than it has worked in the past. All the craziness that we have allhed and in washington, the politics that we have seen in washington, all the dysfunction we have seen in washington, now it is unacceptable. Because what government does today will literally determine how many people live and how many people die. Thats not hyperbolic and not overly dramatic. That is just a fact. That federal government has to be able to pass legislation. To pass legislation, it has to be on a bipartisan basis. You have the congress, the house is controlled by democrats, the senate controlled by republicans. Unless you get a bipartisan agreement, you are not going to pass legislation. If you dont pass legislation, the federal government does not work. If the federal government doesnt work, it makes it virtually impossible for state governments to work. If i cant work, local governments cant work. This is not something that a state can control. I can only be in charge to the extent i have the resources and the means. That comes from the federal government. York, but forew every state in this country. So that federal government has to work. The legislation that they pass is important. They have to pass legislation. That only happens on a bipartisan basis. There was no choice for just the democrats can do it or just the republicans can do it. They cannot. It takes two to tango. It takes two houses to pass a bill. One is democratic and one is republican. So the facts are important. Interviewent gave an as reported in the new york post. Blue state coronavirus bailouts are unfair to republicans. Bailouts. This is the topic of whether or not the federal government can provide aid to state governments. It has been a discussion for weeks. The federal government has passed legislation in the past. That legislation helped airlines, small businesses, helped hotels. Great. Great. They havent provided any aid to state and local governments. Why is that important . It is the state and local governments that fund police, fire, education, teachers, healthcare workers. If you starve the states, how do you expect the states to be able to fund the entire reopening plan where the governors are in charge . States are in dire financial circumstances because our economies suffered when all the businesses shut down. Is, it is thenow blue states that have the coronavirus. New york state color blue state. California they call a blue state. And republicans are saying we dont want to give money to blue states. First of all, it is not a blue state issue. Every state has coronavirus cases. And its not just democratic states that have an economic shortfall. Republican states have an economic shortfall. It is the mismanagement of blue states for decades that they now want us to bail out. It is not a fact. Of all, no blue state was asking for a bailout before this coronavirus. I wasnt asking for anything from the federal government before the coronavirus. By the way, the federal government wasnt giving new york anything, for years. Everything they were doing was negative to new york. Then comes the coronavirus. Our economy stops because we shut it down. Now we have a 13 billion deficit. Economy. E stopped the are asking, every state is asking, because of the need financial help in restarting the economy. That is what we are asking for from the federal government. How do you call that a bailout, which is such a loaded word . Such a rhetorical, hyperbolic word. Its a bailout . Theres no bailout. Thisse of the coronavirus, nation has been impacted and states have been impacted because the states make up the nation and we need financial help because of the coronavirus situation. This is not any mismanagement by the states. If anything, the mismanagement has been on behalf of the federal government. That is where the mismanagement has gone back decades. Senator moynahan, god rest his soul, new york senator, great that new decades ago york has been continually shortchanged by the federal government. Why . Because we have always given them more money than they gave us back. How does the federal government work . The federal government collects taxes and puts it all in a pot and then takes money from the federal pot and gives it back to the states. Every year, new york state has put more money into that federal pot than the federal government has given back. Every year for decades. That is just a fact. Also, you want to try to divide, divide. The facts are if the democratic states, which happen to have now hi coronavirus content, which actually have put in more money than the republican states who are now saying why should we bailout the democratic states . The democratic states have been supporting them for years. New york every year, 29 billion more paid in then it gets out. New jersey also a high coronavirus state, 18 billion more every year than it gives out. Massachusetts, connecticut, california. Then you look at the republicans who say we dont want to help democratic states, they are actually the states that have. Een taking more every year virginia, maryland, kentucky. Senator mitch mcconnell, kentucky, 37 billion more every year. Alabama, florida. Everything is about florida. Why . Because we are in a swing state and we are in on election year. I get it. Florida gets 30 billion more every year than it puts in. . Hat are you talking about fairness equity bailout. You look at where weve been over the past five years, we paid in 116 billion more than we paid out. You want to be fair, give new. Ork back the money you took it would be 116 billion. And who takes . We know those facts and we know the numbers. Discussion that senator mcconnell is raising, that some senators are raising, this is counterproductive and it will lead to defeat for all of us. You need a bipartisan bill to pass. You go down this path of tition ship and partisanship and politics, you will never pass a bill. And if you never pass legislation, you will never get this economy back on its feet. So you go down this path of division, you will defeat all of us. Because we are all in the same boat. There is no separating us. Still the United States of america. This partisanship, we have to turn the page. I know it is how washington operates. I know it is how washington has been operating for many years. But we have to stop. We have to change. And you do need a totally different mindset. It cant be it is you versus me. Right . To be we, we the people. If you dont get back to we and you think about a collective interest, you are going to defeat us all. Because it cant happen. Thisou have to get out of democrat, republican, red or blue. It is not red or blue. It is red, white, and blue. The coronavirus doesnt kill democrats or republicans, it kills americans. Is less discriminating and more of an equalizer than the lens we are viewing the virus through. And if we cant get past this now, when can we ever get past it . Crisis. A national you have a national outbreak. A national epidemic, killing thousands of people. You cant put your politics . Side even now even today . Families have fights. Yes, families have fights. , andody is going to die the family is still going to Carry Forward these silly fights . From years ago . Nobody even remembers how this started. If theres any time to come together, its in the moment of crisis and this is a moment of crisis. , ande always understood the great ones always told us that it wont work this way. A house divided against itself cannot stand. If you want to be a leader, you want to go down in the history books as someone who stood up and did the right thing, then remember what made us great in the first place. That is what a great leader would do. Each of uspoint, must do our part. Talk about government, government, government. Yes, government has a lot to do. I understand that fully. Citizens also have a role to play. You know who will keep yourself you are going to keep yourself safe. You were going to keep your family safe. You know who will keep each other safe . Each one of us keeps the other safe. Everyone has a responsibility here. Social responsibility. That is what wearing a mask is all about. Just wear a mask. Its a smart thing to do. Its also the right thing to do. All this complexity, there is still a right thing. You still know whats the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do. May be the right thing is a new york expression. I dont think so. You know what the right thing to do is nobody has to tell you. Right thing to do is wear a mask. Its not about you. Its about my health you wear a mask to protect me. I wear a mask to protect you. Wearing a mask is not the greatest intrusion. I do not understand why people think it is such a burden to wear a mask. 99 of the people do it. Its the 1 of the people who dont do it. Thats who we are talking about. We were talking about this last night. I was expressing my frustration why some people just dont get it. What this has been about from day one, the whole exercise, and where i started this on day one, all of these things we have done , nobody is doing these things because government told them to do it. Im the first governor in the history of the state of new york to say that we are closing businesses, to say you must be quarantined. No governor has ever said that. How do i enforce that . I cant. I cant. How do you enforce making 19 Million People stay at home . I cant. I can give day one, the facts to new yorkers, but then new yorkers have to decide and agree that it makes sense given the facts and agree to do it. Have to agree. All of these things. Closing schools, closing businesses, staying at home. Now wearing a mask. Is sot understand why it hard. Maria suggested it may be the way im communicating it. Im just not effectively communicating. Dont laugh. First of all, this is a common refrain in my house from my daughters, that it is me and my lack of ability to communicate , fair statement. And im guilty. I have no doubt i am guilty. I am a bad communicator. And i have not been communicating the rationale for wearing of mask a mask effectively. So im open minded. We are all a work in progress and trying to get better. Why dont we is to produce and add that the state could run on explaining to new yorkers why , and theld wear a mask context and the rationale and the Health Reasons and the social responsibility . And its not that big a deal. Maybe theres a better way to communicate it than i have been communicating it. Again, 99 of the people are doing it. Its great. We are talking about that 1 . Maybe i have not been persuasive or effective enough in my communication skills. So i said to mariah, great idea. We will ask new yorkers to produce an ad, 32nd ad. They submit it. Maria will be the unofficial advisor with the department of health. Pick the five best, put them online, let new yorkers pick the best add. The state will run the ad. It will say on the bottom, produced by whoever won the competition. They will get a lot of acclaim and get to be creative experts and maybe we will have an ad that communicates this better than i have been able to communicate it to date. So i am excited about that. And mariah is going to help on that and take it on as a project. I am excited about that. No cost to the people of the state of new york, she will be a volunteer. The boyfriend can try to put in he can submit a possible ad for consideration. The boyfriend will lose, but he can submit an ad. [laughter] because im still governor. Thats what we are going to do. Do you want to add anything or did i explain it clearly in my flawed communication modality . It. Ah i think you covered we will be providing more information in the next few days, but if you are interested, amask. Ny. Gov. Wear see, sometimes i communicate effectively. Sometimes. But you are not alone in criticizing my communication skills. Many people in the room would agree with you. We are new york tough. Smart, united, disciplined and loving. Questions . Looks like there is new reporting regarding Nursing Homes and it would increase the total by 1700 in terms of total deaths. Does that count toward the official tally . Are they in a different category . Gov. Cuomo i will ask melissa more to explain this because i dont know the details frankly. You have two categories. Confirmed deaths, and then probable or presumed deaths. And they list numbers in both categories. Some people combine the two. Confirmed deaths and presumed deaths and have one number. Some people keep them separate. Then they are often reported separately or reported together. But that has been going on for a while. Is that accurate . Dr. Malatras that is accurate. We reported in the past, we asked the nursing home to provide updated information. They originally provided about 3100 total deaths. The confirmed deaths of those are actually 2100. That gets added to the official count. We are counting their presumed and confirmed, but the confirmed deaths are in the official tally. Havingocalities are more, we want to confirm as much as we can. We are now putting up both. Some facilities were putting up both together and it was difficult to tease out so we have asked to report clearly the line of confirmed and presumed. And specifically, the isabela geriatric center, they issued a statement saying there had been 98 deaths, but official reporting shows less than that, somewhere in the 60s. Does it not count hospital deaths . Those get reported in the deaths. Ization the isabela situation, they reported 60, but in actuality it is 21 confirmed deaths. The remaining or presumed, which we have to confirm one way or another, so it is in line with keeping with what we have said. To be clear, it would take all of these numbers with a grain of salt. We were just saying, the confirmed deaths, you know what that means youre at what is a presumed death mean . How do you presume it to be coronavirus . ,lso, the athome deaths nonhospital, nonnursing home deaths, just athome deaths, when do you get all the numbers on those and how do you confirm all those deaths as attributed to coronavirus . I would just have a caveat with all of these. I think they will change over time. When you look at these nursing home deaths, why were steps taken earlier to protect such a vulnerable population . As you look back now and knowing the virus will be around, are there mechanisms that can be done differently so when people theyick in Nursing Homes, go to the hospital and stay in the hospital . Gov. Cuomo first, the basic point is, right, the nursing day one, ared from the most vulnerable places. It is old people, senior people who are the phone herbal population in a congregate setting Vulnerable People in a congregate setting. Thats how it was introduced to the nation, a seattle vulnerable nursing home. It was true around the world also. What can you do better Going Forward . Dont know. It is something we are studying. We are also doing an investigation with the attorney general to look at it. We did some very harsh things here that frankly i wasnt even comfortable with, but the Health Experts insisted. No visitors to a nursing home for two months . No visitors . How do you do that . Because all it takes is one , test thewalk in staff, ppe. You do everything you can. But if theres anything else we can learn from and do, we will do. You have people who get sick in the nursing home. Sometimes they are transported to a hospital. Thats up to the experts in the nursing home if thats helpful. Hospital, wen the also need hospital beds. Its not like we can turn hospitals into Nursing Homes. , thea person is better person has to go somewhere. They dont have to go back to the nursing home, by the way. The way the nursing home operates, they make a determination if they can provide the best care for the person. If the nursing home says i cant provide care for this person, then the nursing home must transfer the residence or call the department of health and say this person should be referred somewhere else. I cant take care of this person. Facilitiesid only that can take people from Nursing Homes. The nursing home has to make this decision. If the hospital calls and says i want to send back a person who had covid but is now better to the nursing home, if the nursing home doesnt think they can take them, they shouldnt. All they have to do is say no and tell the department of health and that person will go somewhere else. It really comes down to that nursing home has to know what its limits are, who can provide care,nd who cant provide and we have alternatives. But we have to get it from the nursing home first. Do you have anything to add . Melissa jim, do you want to speak to that . Dr. Malatras we have had really aggressive measures in new york state. No visitors from the outside was pretty aggressive. 12 hour temperature checks on all staff. Staff. Uirements for all and as the government said, the rules from the federal government and state are clear. Wardsve to do separate for covid positive versus negative, not only for the residence, but for the staff. They cannot admit residents who are symptomatic unless they require onsite clinical staff capable of attending to the needs of systematic Covid Patients pursuant to the instructions. We made many facilities available for covid only. Its up to the facilities to call us to make sure the transfers happen. Is there anything there doing that they are not able to get ppe . Dr. Malatras we have been working directly in the states. The facilities have had difficulty. We have provided hundreds of thousands, if not millions of ppe to Nursing Homes across the state including downstate. Gloves, of thousands of goggles, facemasks, gowns. Actually the requirement of the state, but given the crisis, we have been providing that material as well as to those facilities. Everybody wants to point at the Nursing Homes now. We knew the Nursing Homes were going to be a target. Whatever we do, they will be a target. Those Nursing Homes and ive spoken to a number of them, the staff, they are doing phenomenal work. We lost 230 people yesterday. We didnt lose 230 people to coronavirus because we didnt do everything that we could do. We had the best Health Care System on the planet, i believe. Our people are doing everything they can do. We have the equipment, the staff. They are doing everything they could do. Still 230 people died. In a nursing home, that coronavirus, if it figures out a way to get in and all it takes one staff person who doesnt have a temperature, is not symptomatic, one facility person, one person who comes to work on the air conditioning system, all it takes is one person to bring the virus in. You do everything you can, but at the same time, you cant do everything. When talking about reopening, what do you say to people who say the metrics you laid out yesterday are unrealistic and will keep places like new york city close for a very long time, possibly until a vaccine . And what do you see the subways looking like and how can we social distance on the subway . Gov. Cuomo first on the metrics, the metrics, we didnt create any metrics. Those are all best practices. Most of the metrics are cdc metrics. The main metrics are from the federal cdc. So they are all reasonable and come from reliable sources, quote unquote experts in the field. We have learned some experts can also be wrong, but they are metrics and they are measurements. The alternative is i dont want to follow any measurements, even if they are they safe, sane measurements, because i want to reopen. I understand that. That is the emotion over the logic. So the question will become, do you want to reopen even if it is not safe to reopen . That is the question i pose. That is the question we are dealing with in society. Ok, more people will die. I want to reopen every dutch anyway. Ok. How many more deaths are you willing to sustain to reopen quickly . 100 more deaths . 500 more . There is a cost of reopening. There is a cost of staying closed. Theres a cost of reopening to quickly. Too quickly. Lets be honest about it. Its a tradeoff. Say to the American People and the state of new york, we can reopen tomorrow if you want. This is how many more people will die. We theyays adjusted from 60,000 to 134,000 deaths nationwide based on what 31 states are doing. If you are ok with that, you are ok with it. When will we reopen . When its safe. You tell me how fast the line comes down and there is a decline. I tell you when we will reopen. It depends on what we do. Reopen theys subways are open. You mean when do they reopen . No, reimagining the subways. Gov. Cuomo take precautions on the subways, but you can socially distance now on a subway because the ridership is down 92 . But when the subways up and running, i dont think it would be possible to stay six feet apart. You can wear masks, you can do sanitizer. I dont know what the capacity would go down to at six feet apart. Allent you expect us to hit seven of the metrics and what happens if a region reopens but then regresses for one of the other measures for the restrictions to go back into place . What happens . Gov. Cuomo we see that in countries around the world. They reopened. The numbers went sky high. They that not ideal that is not ideal. It is better than c numbers go through the roof, but it is not ideal. The ideal is you reopen in a controlled format, that when those numbers start to tick up, you have been watching the numbers and you adjust your reopening. Right . What weve seen in other countries, it was binary. They opened, and then they closed. Think, withgent, i retrospect, a moderated, modulated reopening, so you can watch those numbers, right . And you turn the valve, you watch the flow, you watch the dial, and when you see the dial move, slow down on the flow. When do we had the metrics in new york city . I dont know. It depends how fast the decline continues, and how we control the spread of the virus. Its all in our control. Ourtell me, our behavior, behavior is a direct coefficient of the rate of infection. Its what you do today. You dont wear a mask, you wind up infecting someone. So we are in total control of that number, and we dont even know the rate of decline. You can factor out by the current rate, but we dont know how low its going to go. Thats why we watch the numbers every day. The president specifically haveemocratled states been mismanaged over a long period of time. Whats your reaction to that . What role do you want from the president , does it take two to tango . And have you considered waving taxes on emergency workers who come here to volunteer for out of state . Gov. Cuomo we are not in a position to provide any more subsidies right now, because we have a 13 billion deficit. Theres a lot of good things id like to do, and if we get federal funding, we can do. But it would be irresponsible for me to sit here, looking at 13 billion deficit, and say im going to spend more money, when i cant even pay the essential services. We dont get money from washington, we cant fund schools, right . Want to fundwe an them. We are in dire financial need. What what i want to say to the president . I get the politics of the senate. I get republican partisan politics, i get democratic partisan politics. I managed governing this state for over eight years, with a Democratic Assembly and a republican senate. I understand the polarization. I dealth with it, year after year after year. But we got the job done. We passed a budget on time, every year. And that doesnt happen by playing to the politics. It happens when you rise above the politics. The president , in my opinion, has to be the reasonable one here. He has to be the compromiser. He will not pass a piece of legislation without the house, without the congress. That will not happen, and you cannot ask the democrats and andy pelosi, Speaker Pelosi our democratic delegation from this state to pass another piece of legislation that doesnt take into consideration the needs of this state. We went through this on the last bill they passed. I said to my congressional delegation, they arent going to fund state government. Yes, they said, they will, they will be reasonable. I said, i dont believe it. They passed the last bill, didnt have any state and local funding, and you know what . Now they say they wont do it. The Congressional Democrats cannot pass a bill that forces them to savage their own states. They cant. So, the president is looking at a scenario where he either is reasonable and bridges the gap, or they will not pass any legislation, and he will have failed, and this nation will suffer. That is what the president is looking at. We will get there. Go ahead. Have even flagging cases of kawasaki syndrome . It is a covidlike symptom that impacts children syndrome that impacts children. 40 cases overall. The state Health Department has in providing enough data. I wonder where that stands. This is something dr. Zucker has been looking into, sharing reporting directly with me and we have something on that tomorrow. A quick followup on the mta. Can you assure commuters 24 hour service will resume . Gov. Cuomo yes. When is the question. You tell me when the pandemic is over, and i tell you when that when he for our Service Resumes paid you go first. Does that mean when there is a vaccine . Gov. Cuomo it is just when the pandemic is not problematic. Questionowup on the regarding the president. Termse new york post, in frome fact, we see this the president from time to time, that it becomes personal for him. How much of what is going on right now is personal for him versus politics . Is there some feelings being hurt . You managed him pretty well, your relationship with him. Your reaction to that . Gov. Cuomo it is always, all of the above, right . First, on the mismanagement of this state was doing very well before coronavirus. Lower taxes, highest number of jobs in history. We were doing great. I wasnt asking for a nickel from the federal government, and we werent getting anything from the federal government. So it has nothing to do with decades of mismanagement. The only decades of mismanagement really is on the uityral side, with ineq for decades. New york state has been subsidizing the federal government for decades. That is a numerical fact, not an opinion, not rhetoric, not hyperbole. It is a fact. They are numbers. They are numbers. We put in more than we get out. So, thats that on that issue. I dont even think the president started this fight. I think this is the republican fight, the republicans in the senate are saying we come from should we states, why give any money to democratic states . Which is just a really selfish, narrow, isolationist, divisive, partisan opinion, right . If new yorkers took that stand, then nobody should have paid federal taxes for the past 30 years, because we were giving them money, right . Crisis, we are a relatively rich state, so we give florida 30 billion every year. So, thats where it started. The president now articulated that theory in the post, and if he is adopting that theory wet he also believes shouldnt help democratic states deal with the coronavirus partisan, think it is it is divisive, and it is selfdefeating. Because the democrats in the house cannot be fooled again, and cannot pass the bill that doesnt provide help to the people they represent. The congressional members from new york cannot pass another bill that does not provide help to the people they represent. They cant do that, and then come home and stand before the people they represent. So if the president doesnt figure out how to bridge this divide, he will have no legislation. And if he doesnt have legislation, he will have failed s probablyr, which i on a number of levels. And more importantly, this nation will suffer. So i think it is a bad road for the president to go down. Far as personal, hes said to me, one of the main fights i had with the president was on a program. A. L. T. That ended state and local deductibility, which took this inequality of what we give back and put it on steroids. It ended our deduction of state and local taxes and cost is 14 billion every year, and that was a really aggressive, negative, punitive action against new york, in my opinion. It was this partisanship. It took more money from the democratic states to give to the republican states. That is what it did. Clearhad a, a disagreement with the president about it on a number of occasions, and the president in fairness said that the senators had not fixed it and the senators should have fixed it. This is a longrunning issue. I can get tof everyone. Last week [inaudible] we a you tell us, why are good example on dealing with the pandemic . And you talked about plans, what inns inspired new york opening . Gov. Cuomo we have studied just about every plan out there. More than plans, the experience. You can go look at what happened in europe when they reopened. You can look at china, when they reopened. To a plus orem, minus degree, have seen some rebound of the virus, and the question is, how big is the rebound and can you manage the rebound, or is the rebound so high that you have to go back to close down, which we have seen in other countries. So it is more learning from their experience, right . Somebody walks down the path. You have to walk down the path and ask them what they found when they walked down the path. Were learning from the benefit of that experience. I dont think we said anything about brazils plan specifically beyond just the experimental. Lets take one more. Were hearing nurses from out of town are having to jump through hoops, so i wonder if you will expand your executive order passed may 15 the doesnt require them to get a license . Thank you very much. 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