Updates from congress. Sign up today, it is easy. Cspan. Org connect and enter your email in the word for word signup box. Announcer new York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a temporary state ban on residential and commercial evictions continue through august. In his daily coronavirus briefing, Governor Cuomo talked about other steps to help new yorkers who are struggling financially. Gov. Cuomo good morning. Pleasure to be here. Thank everyone for being here. Social distancing, ic. A pleasure to be at the new York Medical College today. County executive george latimer, also home to our great Senate LeaderAndrea Stewart cousins. And it is a beautiful day. It is so beautiful, i want to go the after this cant take motorcycle outcome go for a ride. Going to wear my mask. Protection the covid virus, also keep the bugs out of your mouth, works on both fronts. Anxiety, ie of high understand that, a flood of pressure all across the country, but even more in times of tying its, it high anxiety, important we stay with the facts and the truth. John adams was defending the british at a time when the American People hated the british. Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. Lincoln, a believer in the American People, always. Let them know the truth, and the country is safe. The wisdomoln and and the economy of his language. Let them know the truth, and the economy is safe. Here are the facts, where we are right now. 8600 total hospitalizations. That number is down. That is good news. And it is a fairly significant drop, so that is good news. The net change in hospitalizations you see is also down. That is good news. Intimations is down. That is good news. Of three day rolling average hospitalizations is also down. You see the curve, you see the outline of what we went through. You see how fast it went up. Remind you of how fast the infection can spread. And you see how once those numbers are up, how slow, how long it takes to get them down. We are on the downside of the mountain. The downside of the mountain was a much more gentle slope than what we went through going up the mountain. We wish it was a stepper deeper a steeper decline, but its not. Deaths, 231. You can see how slow that has come down, and how painfully high it still is. The number oft of lives lost. And again, you can see how fast that infection took off, and how many lives we lost. And once that infection rate is high, the people are getting infected, you can see how long it takes to slow it down and reduce the number of deaths. And they are coming down at a painful, slow level of decline. One of priority for us, the Top Priorities for us, has been protecting our frontline and our essential workers. You have to remember what happened here. So fast that it is almost hard to gain perspective on it. But the frontline workers, they anded up and went to work put their lives in danger so everyone else could stay home. As lincolnthe facts, said, to the people of this state, laid out how dangerous this virus was, advocated and argued based on those facts, that we needed to close down, close down schools, close down businesses, stayathome. People did that. In the next breath i said by the way, we need you essential workers to go to work tomorrow. After just having explained how dangerous the virus was, to justify shutting down society in a way that had never been shut down before, the next breath, essential workers, i need you to go to work. Hospital care, i need you to go to work and help people who come in with the covid virus, after we just discussed how dangerous the covid virus was and how little we knew about the virus. Look at the courage that those frontline workers had to show. I mean, it is still amazing to me. And i just want to make sure on a human level we are doing everything that we can for them. So we have been aggressively testing the frontline workers to find out who needs help, how many people actually have been infected, and we have been worsening working with the police and Health Care Workers. We tested 25 downstate Harold Health care facilities where the predominance of the virus was. Over 27,000 employees. So it is a very large sample. And what we found out is really good news. And one of the few positives that i have heard in a long time. When you look at the percentage of people who have the antibodies, which means they were infected and sometime in the past but have now recovered, of the Health Care Workers in westchester 6. 8 , new york city told. 2 , long island 11. 1 . , long york city, 12. 2 island 11. 1 . The general population is almost 14 . Westchester healthcare workers is about half of the rate of the general population. I mean, that is amazingly good news, right . We were afraid of what was going to happen, and he Health Care Workers actually are at about the same or lower than the general population in that area. So that makes two points to me. Number one, our Health Care Workers must be protected, they must have the ppe. We have been saying that all along. There was a mad scramble this last time to get the ppe. Internationally it was a mad scramble for all of us. That can never happen again. We have to have the ppe, we have to have the stockpile. Every order every hospital has to have a 90 day supply of ppe at the covid rate of usage. So we will never go through this again. Everybody how important the masks and gloves and the sanitizer are, and that they work. It is not that the frontline workers get anything especially more sophisticated than the masks that people wear, the n95 masks. They wear a gown, they wear a mask, they wear gloves. But they follow protocol. And those masks work. They work. They are working for frontline workers. They are going to work for people in their daytoday lives. And the precautions of gloves and sanitizers, they work. Also during this time, it is important that we protect new yorkers who are facing financial hardships. You have people who live paychecktopaycheck. The majority of people in this in the state live paychecktopaycheck. All of a sudden the paycheck stops. Federal government issued a onetime payment of 600 on up limit benefits. But it is not making up the gap for many families. And they are struggling and we want to make sure we are doing everything we can. We have a problem in upstate new york where many of the farms cannot sell their product. A lot of farms that were literally just dumping milk that the dairy farms had produced. But at the same time people in downstate new york who are going hungry and cannot pay for enough food. Tremendous demand on food banks. So we have been putting the two together. We have upstate farmers who cannot sell their product, and downstate families that cannot get enough to eat. Effortsve been funding to connect the farmers to the downstate food banks. And we have done that with about 25 million to what we call our nourish new york initiative. And that has worked. We are funding about 50 food farms thathave 2100 are delivering food to those food banks. And about 20,000 households in the state are participating. And the volume of food and product that is not being wasted that a supporting upstate farms and helping downstate families is tremendous. We want to continue doing that. The state budget is very, very tight right now. With what is going on with the economy. Bill collectors work. They still send the bill. And you still get election notices. By executive order that i issued, we did a moratorium on residential or commercial evictions. You cannot be evicted for nonpayment of rent related to this covid situation. That went through june. So nobody has been and nobody can be evicted through june, either residential or commercial. We are going to take additional steps of banning any late payment fees because a person could not pay the rent during this. Period. Also allowing people to use a Security Deposit as a payment and they can repay it over a prolonged period of time. I am also going to extend that moratorium and additional 60 days. It is not expired in june, but people are anxious and june for many people is just next month and the rent is going to be due. We are going to extend that 60 days until august 20. So no one can be evicted for nonpayment of rent, residents or commercial, because of covid until august 20. Then we will see what happens between now and then. Nobody can really tell you what the future is, so that will be in place. I hope it gives families a deep breath, nothing can happen until august 20. Then we will figure out between now and august 20 what the situation is. Also at this time, principles matter. Understand the anxiety, i understand the stress, but lets remember who we are and what we are all about and what principles matter to us. People are talking about we should reopen the economy. It is more important than Public Health. Or Public Health is more important than the economy. Argumenthe underlying and discussion you are hearing going on right now. To me it has never been a question of whether or not we reopen. It is not reopen or not reopen. You have to reopen. You dont have a choice. It is how you reopen. It is how you reopen. , we either have to have a stronger economy or protect Public Health, no. That is a false choice. It is not one of the other. It is both. We have to reopen, get the economy running, and we have to protect Public Health. Situationis is not a where you can go to the American People and say ok, how many lives are you willing to lose to reopen the economy . We dont want to lose any lives. You start to hear these absurd arguments. Well, yes, if we reopen people will die, but people were going to die anyway. We are all going to die. The big question is when, and how, right . And the when and how matters. I understand that i am going to die. I just did not want to die now, for next week, and i dont want to die because i contracted the covid virus unnecessarily. Right . So people are going to die. Yes, we are all going to die. That is not a justification, in my mind. A would be a novel defense person before a judge, charged with murder. You have a gun . Yes. Did you shorten shoot the person . Yes. Did they die . Yes. But the person was going to die anyway. Yes, but the gun killed the person, and you fired the gun. Right . Well, go down this road, there are old people who will die. Predominantly on the numbers. By the way, old, how do you define old . Not that old is a justification. But we looked at numbers yesterday, the number of people coming into the new cases into hospitals. 51 years old is where the increase starts. 51 to 60, 60 to 70 is the highest, 71 to 80. 51 to 60. So 51 is not really old. I know that it is all relative and since i am beyond that 51, it is easy for me to say. But i do not really see 51 as old. Think and i do this for myself any leader who makes the decision in this situation should be willing to dissipate in anything they authorize. So there is nothing that we are going to authorize or allow in this state that i myself will not be part of. Ok, youo easy to say can go do this, but i am going to protect myself and i am going to stay behind a glass wall. No. If all human life has the same value if i Say Something is safe for new yorkers, then i will participate in it because if it is safe for you, it is safe for me. Right . And that should be our standard going forward. And what we have been doing in new york is make the decisions based on facts and data. Not emotion and politics. Emotion andtand the i understand the anxiety and the stress. I understand politics a little bit. But that is not the basis for making a decision. And every leader has told us that in different ways. That was john adams, that was lincoln, that was fdr, that was teddy roosevelt. Me and team comes to says oh boy, we had a new prison break, there is a flood coming, a hurricane, ebola virus, and your hair is on fire. Slow down, deep breath, lets look at the facts, lets understand the situation, and lets take action based on the facts. That is the way to lead and that is the way i believe you lead ones life. Here, we have a lot of information, we have a lot of facts. We know the hospitalization rate, we know the hospitalization rate, we know the number of deaths, we are doing antibody tests, we are doing diagnostic stress tests, we are doing tracing. Make decisions based on the facts and the data. It sounds simple and basic, but it is more important now than ever before. And it is working for us. It is working. Me saying thatst because i am the governor. You look at what is happening in new york, and look at what is happening in the rest of the nation. In new york, the number is coming down. And its coming down dramatically. You take new york out of the rest of the nations numbers, the rest of the nation is going up. And we are coming down. So, what we are doing is working. And when it is working, stay the course. A quote attributed to winston churchill. If youre going through hell. Keep going. And thats what were doing. Were going through hell but it is working so were going to keep going. Questions . Yes, you began the briefing with the term like high anxiety and what seems to really increase that is when we think about a second wave later and you look at people who are ed maybe if theyre diehard bigcity people for the first time in their lives theyre thinking maybe i want to go to the suburbs. Its an individual Family Decision but what do you [unintelligible] folks like that or someone in your foam who says i think im going to leave the city and try something new. What is your thought on a possible ex does or flight . High omo youre right, anxiety, emotion the high. Often logic is low in that case, right . Yes, new york had a lot of cases. It has nothing to do with new york. First of all, that was a national issue. Im going to leave new york. Westchester had them, l. A. Had them, chicago had them. Ok, new york had more. Yes. Why . But we know why. It had nothing to do with new york. It had to do with the fact that all the experts missed a very important fact that while we were all watching china and talking about china and doing a china travel ban, the virus had already gotten on a pollen in china and went to europe. Had infected people in europe and then people in europe were coming to new york because thats where the flights come. A Million People were coming from europe february to march and nobody was stopping european travel. Nobody was screening europeans coming into the ampletse. Nobody said to new yorkers, by the way, any person from italy, from the u. K. From germany, they may have the covid virus. Nobody said anything. So we had two million passengers from europe. Everybody is still talking about china. We do the china travel ban, were screening people from china but meanwhile, it came through europe. Millions of people came from europe and we had no idea. We had no idea. Thats why the number of cases in new york are so high. Theyre now looking at people who came from europe, came into j. F. K. Or newark but then took a connecting flight and went to another city and think they think the whole east coast may have seen bases come from europe. The china flights were going more to the west coast but european flights came to the east coast. Had nothing to do with new york. Now, once the virus is in new york. Any place of density is where this virus takes off. Any place of density so any place you look at the Meat Processing plants now that are in the midwest parts of the country, southern parts of the country, well, they are a problem. No, it has nothing to do with the Meat Processing plants or we have a hot spot now in an agricultural facility in upstate new york. It has nothing to do with meat or agriculture. Its the dense tip. Thats what happened here in west champion, new rochelle, the first hot spot in the united states. What did it has to have to do with new rochelle . Nothing po, it was the density. A congregation of 200, 300 people. A city like new york, once et gets into density its going to increase but why here . Because of the flights from europe and nobody knew and nobody told us and nobody stopped it. Also, post 9 11, you went in new this situation york where people asked that question, maybe new york was a target. We werent the only place attacked in 9 11 but it was highly impactful here, we lost a lot of lice. People said maybe new york is a target. Yeah, but that lasted for a very short. And new york then came back, downtown better than ever before and were going to do the same thing here. You mentioned a couple of initiatives including extending rent relief. What is your message to new yorkers and whos hiring in the state . Gov. Cuomo we get to may 15. May 15 is when its called the pause order. The closedown order expires and then well look at different regions in the state by the data to see if theyre in a position to reopen. Well start in construction, manufacturing,. So you will see the economy start to reopen. Not a floodgate but its a start so we can watch and see whats happening and calibrate. In the interim, everyone is just making do and everyone has hardships, etc. We just want to make sure that those people whore most vulnerable are protected and one of who are most vulnerable are protected and one of the greatest as a rule flerblets, i ant pa vulnerableties is i cant pay my rent, feed my family. No one is going to be evicted because of the issue of rent. We need to make sure everyone had enough feed to feed their families. Were doing that in a number of ways. But the number one issue that people talk to me about probably is rent and fear about being able to pay their rent and this just takes that issue off the table until august 20. Whats on august 20 . I cant tell you whats going to happen two, three months down the road but i can tell you whatever happens, we will handle it at the time and thats what weve been doing with this situation all along. Literal arely in twoweek increments. This is unlike anything weve seen before so im not going to sit here and say i have a crystal ball and im going to tell you whats going to happen in a month or two months and anyone who else i that, i would question that person seriously because there has been no one who has gotten this right from the file it started 6. One more . I dont want to take too many quells. About the rent relief and the land lords who would say they have to pay the mortgage. Gov. Cuomo none of these decisions are easy. None of these decisions are easy and youre right, the land lord will say, ok, so that you the tenant doesnt pay their rent but i still have to pay the electric bill and the mortgage. That is true and were working on relief from the banks for the landlords also and there are programs that the federal government is doing and the state is doing to make sure those banks also get relief so they dont have to do any foreclosures and we stop at foreclosures on the landlord but youre right. There is no doubt a tradeoff between the tenant and the land lord. Were helping the land lormeds also but on a human level, i dont want to see people and their children being evicted at this time through no fault of their own. Ou know. My grandfather used to say, if you have your health, we can figure out anything else. We can fix anything else. If its about money well figure it out but you have to have your hell. Thats why Public Health vs. The economy, i dont see the tradeoff. We have to have our health. We should protect human life. I dont care if a person is old. Im oddibe your definition. I still think i have a value, right . My mother is old. Shes the most precious person to me so protect every life and im not going to trade off Public Health and well figure out the dollars and well figure out the Economic Impact but well protect people in the meement and well protect their health. Youve spoken about colved ver facilities and positive nursing home patients. Are you wear of any . Gov. Cuomo we have facilities all across the state that can take any covidpositive person from a nursing home. So any nursing home operator who cannot provide adequate care for anyone in the nursing home, you call the department of health, we have beds and care for that person. And no nursing home should keep a person in that nursing home who they cannot adequate care, period. They violate their legal obligation and their ethical obligation to the state of new york. If they cannot provide care for any reason, and adequate care they dont have enough staff, equipment, i dont care what it is. 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As a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Joining us mexico from nashville, tennessee, is dr. Mes hildredth, the president and c. E. O. Of the Medical College in that city. Ood morning and welcome to washington journal. Guest thank you for having me. Host what are you looking into . Guest we are looking at taking some drugs we were developing for the treatment of h. I. V. And were changing the structure of those compounds slightly to make them target covid19 and these are therapeutic drugs that would limit the ability of the virus to spread in the body. Essentially block the replication of the virus. One of our surgeons and also developing a novel ventilator to help deal with the shortage of ventilators in this country. Thats the kind of work were doing right now. Looking for therapeutics and looking for other ways to help with the problem generally. Host in terms of your work in the they are putics, how far long are you in the process