Governor murphy did you say someone did you Say Something to offend someone . You are all the way over there. Good afternoon, everyone. Not exactly the easter weekend that irving berlin, fred astaire, and judy garland envisioned in 1948. I am honored to be joined to my right with a woman who needs no introduction. The commissioner of the department of health. Judy. To her right, state epidemiologist, dr. Christina tam. And another guy who does not need any introduction, the guy to my left, colonel pat callahan. I also want to a knowledge jared maples, the duck the director of the department of homeland security. Pamela is with us as well as other colleagues. Thank you all for joining us. I got past permission and njssing so i am flying transit colors today. I want to give them a big shout out for all the great work they do. I will find my state police garb sooner rather than later. Lets get to the numbers. Since we met yesterday, we have 3599 moreied that residents have received positive test results and the statewide is. L according to our online dashboard, as of 10 00 p. M. Last night, 7618 residents were reported hospitalized. Another 682 residents were discharged. In 1650 ventilators were in use. Residents were discharged. As we noted yesterday, the dashboard pulls data as it is reported each night by hospitals to the new jersey hospital association. There may be overnight changes or reports that are not reflected. It is a snapshot in time. We know this is a very fluid situation. I would like to note as we did yesterday that while the numbers of our fellow residents in the hospital in critical or intensive care and on respirators is daunting, there are hundreds of people each day leaving the hospital. People who have beaten it and gotten to a much better place. We have to keep remembering that. This should give us hope when the season is spiritual and filled with renewal. We continue to lose members of our tremendous new jersey family to covid19 related complications. We have now lost a total of 2183 members, extraordinary members of our extraordinary new jersey family. For every single one of them, we stand in solidarity and prayer in mourning their loss. Our flags remain at half staff in their honor and memory. Here are just a few. I wish we could Say Something about each of the 251 lives we lost overnight and the 2183 lives lost from the beginning of this crisis. But here are a few of their stories. Viola richardson, there she is. She served the people in jersey city for 12 years as a member of city council, she was a councilmember of ward f and at large. Before that, she was a Jersey City Police officer, tough and outspoken, a fighter for her community and her city. Her life defined the meaning of the words Public Service, and jersey city has paid a big price. I was texting back and forth with the members of the council and the extraordinary resident of our great jersey city. Another guy, john mccarthy, of my town, middletown. He was an army veteran and a Small Business owner and leader on the bayshore. He was a longtime member of the Business Owners association, the Northern Chamber of commerce, and the Bayshore Senior Center in keansburg. He also coached youth baseball. We lost him yesterday. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, donna, and their family. God rest his soul. That is a great shot with his grandchild. And one more today. Here is martin known as marty fox from millburn. He was two months shy of his 96th birthday, but what a life he packed into his years. Amherst college, harvard law, and u. S. Army lieutenant in the second world war, a passionate crusader for social justice during the long, hot summer of 1963. He went to florida to represent pro bono members of the st. Augustine civil rights movement. He was appointed to the new jersey board of education by two governors. In 1978, he accompanied his friend, a governor, on a trip to israel. He never slowed down. To his wife, muriel, and his daughter, sarah, who i spoke with, and rachel and their families, we thank marty for his lifetime of service. God rest his soul. He will not be forgotten. This is not new today. I mentioned this yesterday. But we owe you a picture to put with a name. Here is a picture of nelson perdomo. God rest his soul. I wanted us to pay a proper tribute to nelson. He was a 19year veteran corrections officer. Our prayers are with his wife, fannie, with whom i spoke yesterday with their kids also. God bless them all and god bless his memory. Tremendous lives, tremendous people, tremendous families, tremendous holes in our broad and diverse new jersey family. This is a toll of real lives that the virus is taking on our state. It is for them and for every family that we are committed to defeating this invisible enemy and we must do it together. It is not just up to some of us to continue our social distancing, it is up to all of us. I know hearing the daily numbers can be scary. I know there is continued anxiety as we take every step forward, but we cannot let up. Look at where our work is leading us. We have shown this map before. That is really tough on our monitor. Looks better up there. This is a map that not that many days ago, the 21 counties in new jersey and it measures the virus in terms of each county of how many days it is taking to double. It wasnt that many days ago that we had red and orange. Now as you can see, we have no red and have not had red for awhile. We have three southern counties are in orange. A whole bunch are in yellow and increasingly, including my own county, you have counties that are doubling in at least if not more than seven days or more. That is a very good early sign that we are beginning to beat this virus back. We are slowing the rate of the cases doubling, which is an important metric and the lighter each county gets on this map, the more we are flattening the curve. We remain confident that the course we are on is the right one and if we all continue with what we need to do, keeping our social distances, wearing a Face Covering when we are out, which we all do and we only take off for the purposes of this press conference, and otherwise staying home, we will win this war. Wars are not won overnights or by set dates, they are won through perseverance and hard work and together we are doing that hard work. Again, remember, and i keep coming back to churchill in many respects, never have so few done so much for so many. It is both ways right now in this war. We have two fronts, one for the many and one for the few. One for the many is all 9 million of us staying home and keeping our distances, Wearing Masks and basically keeping that social distance mantra as we pound this curve into the ground. Remember the positive tests i mentioned, the curve is flattening but they are still going up. We are not in the end zone. We cannot spike any footballs. We are not even first and goal. If we keep all nine men of us pounding on that curve downward, you will have fewer infections, fewer hospitalizations, fewer intensive care unit hospitalizations, fewer needs for ventilators, and please, god, fewer fatalities. That is what the many of us could do. The few of us are the First Responders and those at the front lines of the war, working on behalf of all of us. They are showing the heroism every day and we have to let them continue to build up the capacity in our Health Care System, such that we have enough beds, ventilators, medicine. Intensive care beds, personal protective equipment, all that contribute to the Health Care Capacity such that as we pound the curve down over here, the 9 million of us, the heroes over here that we can get lines that cross in a reasonable level at a reasonable time, such that the folks who do get infected and require hospitalization and require intensive Health Care Oversight that we have a system that has the capacity to manage those persons. We are literally at the edge of all of what i have just described. Our job must continue. I know it is hard. The weather is warmer and tomorrow is easter. Please, god, stay the course and to stay with us. Keep pounding the curve down or lets get that map to be all light gray. Lets get a light gray state and then some and then we can say to ourselves, we are on the road to victory. Unequivocally, if we all do our part, and i know we will because we are new jersey and nobody can touch us, we will beat this virus and will come through this stronger as one new jersey family, stronger than ever before. As it pertains to our continued efforts, today i am announcing another step, building on the step on the first day to stop the further transmission of coronavirus. Today, i am signing an executive order directing nj transit and other drivers to cut capacity on trains, buses, light rail vehicles and paratransit vehicles to 50 of their maximum. The order requires nj transit and the private carriers to supply workers with gloves and Face Coverings. The order also requires all riders to wear Face Covering, whether it be by bus, train, light rail, or paratransit vehicle, unless they cannot for medical reasons. Right now, for many of our essential workers, Public Transit is how they get to work and we need to protect them during that trip. Nj transit will put out guidance specifically on this executive order so that we have a rational execution of this order. There will be a fair amount of discretion left up to our drivers. Part of the same executive order, i am expanding the departments were a Face Covering to all customers heading into one of the restaurants in bars that remain in our operation as they get takeout orders. If you are not walking into an establishment, doing it curbside or if your order is being delivered, a Face Covering will not be required. We will require restaurants and bars give Face Coverings and gloves to all of their food service personnel. All of this is effective monday evening at 8 00 p. M. Thank you for that. It bears repeating, a Face Covering does not mean a medical grade mask. We need to keep those for the frontline Public Health and safety responders and they remain in short supply. There are any number of short ways you can cover your mouth and nose with a bandana or a homemade fabric covering. I know that for some of you, you may view this as another inconvenience. Remembering to bring your Face Covering to the supermarket or to pick up your takeout order may be a hassle. But do you know what would be inconvenient . If you ended up in the hospital with covid19, or you inadvertently infected a family member, and if you did that, just because you didnt take to heart the need for us to take every precaution and for all of us to keep working together. We accept this is inconvenient and we accept the level of anxiety and that we all want to be doing as we would normally do. Here is the problem. If we do any or all of the above, we blow our chances of flattening this curve. You will put your family members or yourself at risk and i can promise you we put our Health System at risk. We just cant do that. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I know we are going through this and we will get through it together. Speaking of working together, we continue to benefit from the generosity of countless businesses and individuals who are donating muchneeded personal protective equipment and other supplies for our frontline workers. I must give a huge shout out to joe and Clara Foundation which has stepped forward and delivered 150,000 surgical masks and nearly 198,000 n95 masks. They are sorely needed for our professionals and First Responders. I had the honor of speaking with them a week ago today and it was back and forth on a text with joe this morning and they are each extraordinary individuals. They have jersey roots in their lives. I can say this because it is public knowledge. They gave the largest gift to the lawrenceville school, which is not too far from where we are sitting. Joe is the cofounder of alibaba and is the owner of the brooklyn nets. Clara is a leader of the Reform Alliance and a graduate of stanford, as is joe and they have given mightily to stanford and work with stanford on a whole range of issues. To joe and clara if you are watching, from the bottom of our hearts, we say thank you. In the same vein, we are grateful for precious cosmetics for their donation of 100 bottles of Hand Sanitizer as well. Thank you for precious cosmetics. If anyone has more ppe or supplies to donate, let us know. Please reach us at our website. Also, this is a big one, yesterday a total of 78 ambulances and ems from states across the country that were carrying 139 emts and 56 paramedics came to assist our local teams, and not a moment too soon. 53 teams were basic life support and 25 were advanced life support. These folks in these ambulances came from places including california, illinois, ohio, pennsylvania, and maryland. Among other states. And last night, they were already on the streets across our state, including in newark and jersey city, paterson, east orange, irvington and new brunswick. They know how hard our ems quads are working and how overloaded many are and they came in mutual aid and support. This is a true brotherhood and sisterhood and we have already lost four precious and tremendous emts to covid19. Yesterday showed that we all have each others backs. And to those who have come from afar to help us, we will return the favor in your time of need. We planned for this. This is not a coincidence or an accident. We planned for this weeks ago and i give a lot of credit to the folks on either side of me. We knew we would have ems capacity, emt and ambulance capacity challenges so we planned for this. We worked with fema and the National Ambulance contracts and i want to give a shout out to the new jersey ems task force. Two the squad in jersey, to my colleagues, to my friends in fema, and the administration and the folks who have come from afar in our hour of need, i thank you from the bottom of our hearts and we will never forget it. From across the country and around the world, we are moved by the generosity of so many. We continue to be overwhelmed by thousands of people who have contacted us willing to step up and volunteer in our fight in any way. 18,000 folks have raised their hands. Some of you have asked what we are doing with those folks who raise their hands, and judy will give us that. We continue to have direct and essential needs for Health Care Volunteers to assist, in particular in the field medical stations, we continue to need individuals with experience to help run these sites as well as for physicians and respiratory therapists. Judy will go through an update on status on the usns comfort which is captained by a jersey guy. Switching gears, i am happy to say that the National Governors association will make an explicit ask on behalf of all states for 500 billion in direct state aid which would come directly to states that we could backfill the extraordinary efforts at which we are on the front line of attack. Everything from unemployed folks to Small Businesses to caring for those in our Health Care System. I have said this now on many occasions, we are desperately in need of direct cash federal assistance directly to states. I am happy that it will be made explicit at a number that we think is what is required around the country and new jersey needs its share of that. I think that we were the first state to raise our hand. I am joined in this by Governor Cuomo and speaker pelosi. Please, god, in washington, if you are listening, lift the tax on the Salt Production but lift it for some period of time. It was a crushing blow to homeowners and property tax owners and we need that lifted, so please help us in that regard. Let me switch gears to testing. Easter sunday, our fema testing sites at the Community College and pnc bank will both be closed. Next weeks schedule will be posted on our information hub. You can also find information of the 18 other public testing sites in counties across the state. There are quite literally dozens more testing sites that are available to you if your primary Care Practitioner determines you meet the requirements for testing. That number is at least at 57 around the state. Before i hand to the briefing over to judy, i would like to keep highlighting them of the good things happening in our state. I want to give a shout out to all of the essential workers out there, especially those who remain oncall this weekend, this holiday weekend. A special shout out to the child care workers who are making sure the kids of our essential workers are being properly looked after. It does indeed take a village. As my late dad used to remind me of the famous quotation, i am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. As we sadly commemorate the loss of life in this state, it is important for us to remember in other respects the National Course of history goes on. And for the deaths we mourn together, we also acknowledge and celebrate those births among us. I want to shout out to our good friends david and laura for their new baby. Bless those who are born into our state when we mourn the loss of life. To each and every one of you, keep sending us Great Stories on social media by using the njthanksyou. Keep on doing it. Let me give you a couple. Here is a picture of david. He is a landlord with a dozen tenants and he stepped forward to give everyone of them a rent holiday for june. Three months rent free. Certainly not every landlord is in a position to do the same. We get that. But david exemplifies the spirit we need to see right now of people stepping up to ensure we come out of the emergency stronger and so that we all come out of this stronger. Hats off, david. Just this morning, the man to my left, colonel pat callahan went to a high school near his home where student and faculty members assembled 15,000 face shields that will be donated to our Health Care Workers. These two schools are often rivals on the thing and in the gym but together they share how we are coming together to help others. I know the tip of the iceberg was coming when i saw jets fans applauding a new England Patriots truck bringing face masks. This is the spirit of community evident across our state, even in the face of anxiety and uncertainty, we are coming together because we know when we do we will get ourselves through this as one. I think that is as good a way to think of this easter weekend and the way i will be celebrating easter tomorrow with my own family. Yesterday was good friday. But the first good friday wasnt very good. It was filled with pain, doubt, and fear. But from that day came our faith and rebirth for those who celebrate easter. Our faith in rebirth of the resurrection of life, healing, resilience, hope, happiness, because our anxiety and fear and sadness may endure for a night but joy will come in the morning. We are going to get to that better morning. We are going to get there together, but to get to it we have to keep doing everything we can overhear to flatten the curve and get out ahead of this virus and stay ahead of this so that the heroes can treat the sick and get as many of them as possible back on their feet. Tomorrow is especially a day and i plead with you in particular, just as the first night of passover, Easter Sunday is a day we cannot let up our social distancing. Livestream an Online Service or read the scripture at home with your family via facetime or zoom or over the phone. Take a moment to speak with your kids as to the importance of our having to be apart for the days ahead. Stay safe and stay healthy. Keep your faith. We are going to win this together. With that, please help me welcome the commissioner of the department of health, a woman who needs no introduction. Thank you, governor. Good afternoon. As predicted, we expect the next two to three weeks to be stressful and difficult for hospitals and longterm care facilities. As the governor shared, there are 7618 hospitalizations right now. Or as of 10 30 p. M. Yesterday evening. 1746 of those individuals are in Critical Care beds. 1650 of those individuals are on ventilators. Today, i would like to provide you with an update of our tiered system of expanding bed capacity that allows our hospitals to care for the most critically ill patients while care is provided for others in alternative settings based on their level of need. First and foremost, all of these initiatives are dependent on a reliable workforce. 18,300 volunteers have registered as of april 7. Contact information for 1400 nurses has been sent to facilities for staffing as of april 10. 330 rns and lpns, their information has been sent to facilities run by the division of military and veterans affairs. 500 rns have been sent to hospitals in the Central Region and 383 nurses their information has been sent to the alternate care sites for followup. We are taking a tiered approach to bed capacity. Tier one and two are units in hospitals for the most critically ill and those graduating out of Critical Care but still requiring an intensive level of care. Tier three is for patients who require medical surgical interventions and are appropriate for a hospital stay. These patients will go to the alternative care sites of closed hospitals that were standing up to receive these patients. That will be in woodberry, east orange, and barnett hospitals. Tier four is for patients who need vigilance for one to five days or what we call lower acuity medical care. They will receive care in the three field medical sites set up by the army corps of engineers and the new jersey state police. Currently, there are 20 patients at the Meadowlands Convention center field medical site. In secaucus. It has the capacity for 250. We expect by evening to be caring for 50 patients in that site. The Edison Exposition Center has been set up as a field medical site and they will have a soft opening today. It has the capacity of 500 and we expect about 20 individuals in that site by evening. The Atlantic CityConvention Center will be set up and have a capacity of 250 beds. Tier five is actually convalescent care and that is care that can be rendered safely in hotels for Health Care Workers to maybe get some rest or Health Care Workers who have tested positive but are asymptomatic. And need to isolate and cannot do safely at their own homes. Six. Inally, tier dormitories like at rutgers university. They will look it will accommodate asymptomatic individuals. Additionally, as the governor shared, we have just gotten word that the usns comfort will be accepting admissions from our hospitals in new jersey permit d acuity medical and surgical patients and we thank them, and this is excellent news, particularly for those hospitals in the northern part of the state. As i have shared in the past, our Nursing Homes continue to be a significant focus. Today the department will be sending the following guidance out. Covid capable facilities, those that can care for residents while implementing all of the Infection Control protocols, including but not limited to sufficient staff to do so and these facilities can admit new patients or readmit residents back. Covid struggling facilities, these are facilities that are not able to cohort due to but not limited to the inability to implement Infection Control protocols or plant constraints and these facilities will not be allowed to admit any residents or readmissions. Covid negative facilities, the few facilities that have no negative patients at this point in time, they can admit patients unless they cannot implement Infection Control protocols. Any facility that cannot implement Infection Control protocols cannot admit or readmit into the facilities. These facilities should admit residents or readmissions again, only if they can meet all of the Infection Control protocols. As i said the other day, we are working with longterm care facilities that will allocate 100 to 200 beds in the northern and central part of the state so hospitals can safely transfer their nursing home facility patients into those facilities when they cannot be admitted to covid struggling or covid facilities struggling to maintain Infection Control protocols and need a place to convalesce. Changing gears, as the governor says, at the four Psychiatric Hospitals, there have been a total of 160 staff and a total of 80 patients that have tested positive for covid19. There have been five deaths among residents that have tested positive. We are working with those hospitals to conduct surveillance and implement Infection Control protocols to reduce exposure. Today, we are reporting 3599 cases. In a total of 58,151 cases the state. Sadly, 251 new deaths have been reported to the department. 148 are male and 103 are female. They range in age from 23 to 100 years of age. Underlying medical conditions are evident in 97 of these individuals. 15 new deaths were residents of longterm care facilities. There are 305 longterm care facilities that are reporting at least one covid19 case. There are now 2183 fatalities. The underlying conditions that we know for 1083 of them are 29 cardiovascular disease, 17 diabetes mellitus, 15 other chronic diseases, 10 chronic lung disease, asthma, emphysema, copd, 7 chronic renal disease, 7 neurologic or developmental neurologic or neurodevelopmental disabilities, 6 cancer, 6 other, and 3 none. The racial breakdown is known for approximately 1350 of these cases and they are, 704 or 52 white, 298 or 22 are africanamerican. 237 or 17 are hispanic, 79 or 6 are asian, 38 or 3 are classified as other. The families of all of these individuals are in our thoughts and prayers. Thank you again for staying home and following social distancing guidelines. We know this is especially tough during the religious holidays like tomorrow when we are coming together. While difficult, it is vital to continue this effort to slow the spread of covid19. As we observe passover this week and celebrate easter tomorrow, we join together to wish everyone happy holidays. Stay home, stay connected, stay safe, and stay healthy. Thank you. Gov. Murphy thank you for that and for a couple of things. The top five counties, a little bit of a shift in terms of total number of positive cases. Bergen continues to be one. As i mentioned yesterday, middlesex and passaic were in the same neighborhood. Middlesex is now slightly ahead with more positive cases than passaic. Those are the top now six counties. I meant to mention schedule. Dan bryant will connect correct me if im wrong. Tomorrow, we will give you any overnight developments as it relates to the blessed lives we may lose as well as positive test cases. We will do that by paper electronically and we will not be together tomorrow. Unless we reserve the right, if there is something meaningful or material that comes in overnight, to come back. At the moment, assume it is going to be on paper. On monday, we have a video call with the white house. We would normally be at 1 00 but we will be at 2 00 p. M. On monday. Thank you for that. Just looking at the positive tests, seven days in a row of 10 or less growth in those from day to day. That is seven days in a row. The good news is the curve is flattening and that is what we need to see. The challenging news, it is still going up. I was going to ask you, positivity. Did you mention positivity . 49,368 are positive. Percent positivity is 44. 3 . Gov. Murphy that racial breakdown is imperfect. We have a window into just over half. 1356 as far as i can tell out of the 2183 lives lost, we will endeavor to get that. It includes underlying conditions. As we have been previewing this week, the africanamerican numbers are running about 50 higher than the representation of the general population. That is clearly a concern. It is not unique to new jersey. Some places around the country have multiples in terms of percentage of lives lost relative to the representation in the overall society. The latino number looks about what the representation is in the broader statewide community. We want to get more on that. If you ever look at census data, the latino number, you have to do a cross racial view and the the number at about 17. 5 is approximately inline with the representation of the state. I want to remind folks that we care about all of this information, including that piece of information. That is not like we are seeing elsewhere. We have to get to the bottom of that. So in new york city, the number relative to the representation of the hispanic community, the number of fatalities is a margin above the representation of the overall community. More on that as we get to it. Longterm care continues to be a particular area of focus and concern and may be one of the hardest nuts we have to break in this crisis. We discussed earlier on the phone, those ambulances, for a whole lot of reasons, could not have come at a moment too soon. That is another reason we are very gratified that we planned for this weeks ago and we got it right in this case in terms of those ambulances. If i could turn to pat with any overnight compliance updates and other matters of note. It is great to have you with us. Thank you, governor. There was a subject arrested for possession of controlled dangerous substance and paraphernalia. The prosecutor added an Additional Charge for violation of the executive order. A Business Owner was cited for having an open vape shop. Newark Police Department issued 25 executive orders summonses. An individual was cited for maintaining an open nonessential business, which was a barbershop. A subject was being processed on weapons threats and narcotics charges. He stated he was covid positive and refused to submit his fingerprints and spat on the floor and in the direction of police officers. In elizabeth, subject refused to leave a closed park. Another subject in elizabeth was cited for loitering. Just to echo your remarks, governor, on the Ambulance Services that came not only to assist with the backlog of 911 calls across the state, overburdened ems systems, they could not have come at a better time and for the Emergency Hospital decompression we have been talking about. Lastly, i just want to highlight the first call i had with the commissioner was on january 23 with regard to this outbreak. Probably not a day has gone by we havent been on the phone, text or in a meeting. I wanted to assure not only the 9 million residents in the state of new jersey but every patient under any type of care that there is no greater advocate for you than the commissioner. Her compassion is second to none and she didnt pay me to say this. It is just a complete honor to work shoulder to shoulder with her. She is nothing short of the best. Thanks, commissioner. Gov. Murphy amen. And i am a witness. I did not see any dollars being exchanged. To you and the doctor and your extraordinary team. Same thing about you, pat. We are not where we are today without your leadership as well. We are not in the end zone yet. We still have a lot of miles ahead of us, a lot of road to travel and a lot of decisions to make. I couldnt be more proud of the leadership you all have shown. To each of you and the others other fighting every day, thank you. We will start over here. We have a lighter crowd. This may be the length of our session today. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Pennsylvania and new york city announced closing schools. Cuomo said this would be a regional decision. Are we expecting anything coming on that . Newark is asking essential businesses to close once a week. Would you do that statewide . Are you looking at a rental freeze at all . A lot of people are asking that. Are you looking to ban leaf blowers . People said that could hurt respiratory problems. Gov. Murphy leaf blowers . Leaf blowers. A number of bills, one includes High School Coaches getting paid. Do you support that bill and other bills . Gov. Murphy i will take a couple of these and then pass it around. Weve made no decision on schools. I think like a lot of other steps we have taken to be able to have some harmony in the region would be a good thing. I share that sentiment that Governor Cuomo, i believe, referenced. We have made no decisions on that. I have been lobbied hard today to reopen schools, by parents with kids in sports. I can understand their frustration, but we have to make our decisions based on data and fact and science and we will do that. I believe we had promised you an update by this coming friday, the 17th. That is a decision that judy and her team will have a significant amount of input and the rest of us. Nothing on that. Newark once a week thats a recommendation by them. That is the executive orders by the state are binding. We have not considered, at least i have not been part of any consideration on closing once a week. I would say this this week and you have now heard us again ratchet up or down is a better way to put it any holes in that swiss cheese that we have and we expect essential retail warehouses and now buses and trains, bars and restaurants where folks are walking in to get their takeout, there is a very clear mandate and a very clear set of principles we expect folks to operate under. There are thousands and maybe hundreds of millions of contracts between landlords and renters. At least in new jersey, putting a freeze in place is impractical as a legal matter. We have taken a number of steps and continue to consider a number of steps. I want to give a shout out to the department of community affairs. They are working through a whole range of steps. We have said you cannot be thrown out of your house or evicted or foreclosed on. If the landlord has a mortgage and theyve got a holiday from their mortgage bank, we expect them to pass that holiday on people renting from them. I have not heard the question nor have i considered any action on leaf blowers. But if there is anything on that to report, i will definitely come back to you. On the bills, we have very good cooperation and communication with the legislature. It does take a village and that includes them. I was on the phone with the Senate President yesterday, as ive been almost every day, texting back and forth with the speaker. Both of the sides regularly. No comments on any of the bills on monday. Until we consider them and they are on the desk, that is the way it will continue to be. Any protections for renters with landlords saying you have to pay me now. In terms of hospital space, it seems that about 14,400 could be the peak. Are we expecting that to jump up and do you still think you will be able to handle capacity . Gov. Murphy the renter should raise their hand. If they are getting screwed by a landlord and if it is out of line behavior, you should go to our website. We have a page on here. Punch that in and this is no time to be throwing your weight around as a landlord or as anybody else for that matter. Do you want to address the Hospital Capacity . These numbers change every day depending on the data that is input. By our latest reports, it is suggested that hospitalizations will peak at 15,922. Icu admissions will be 3821. The reason i shared the approach we are taking was to assure you that this is something we have planned for. I remind you that under normal circumstances, we have 18,000 licensed beds and 2000 intensive care beds. We have been planning over the last month to increase intensive care beds by 100 , which would bring that to 4000. We are looking at 3821 as the peak. Yes, i think we will have bed spaces for everyone. It is going to be the ppe and the ventilators that we are keeping a close eye on. [inaudible] the peak has changed and has gotten better. If you look at it over time. And it will change again tomorrow. The latest report we got, which was last evening, was the peak look somewhat better. Remember, at the worst, we were looking at 39,000 hospitalizations. Gov. Murphy i am going to anticipate your question. We also look at a number of models. We had the runaway Freight Train reality which was millions infected and then thanks to the folks, all of the great work you have been doing, that came down. There is a best case, if everyone should think of it like this. Judy makes a point which i think is one that we cant forget. What we say today and what we said 24 hours ago or what we will say tomorrow on paper or 48 hours from now may be very different. At one point, it was 500,000 total positives. And then you stepped that down to what percentage would end up in the hospital, what percentage in icu. We dont know for sure when that number may hit . It depends on the model. The input has come in every day at the end of the day. Right now, knowing what our hospitals are doing, the north is packed, but last evening we had eight hospitals that went on and then off. We still have two remaining on divert. That is the lowest number we have had in a bit. Gov. Murphy i want to make sure that i say two things. One is for everybody watching, all bets are off if folks take their foot off of the gas. Absolutely. Gov. Murphy you have to stay home and stay away from each other. That is the only way, literally, we will have a Health Care System with the capacity to deal with folks that need hospitalization. I apologize, because someone had pinged me. Ventilators in particular, we have a few dozen left. We have very few ventilators left so we are at the edge we talk about ventilators and the medicines we need to run them, ppe, Health Care Workers, beds. On the ventilators, we are literally at the edge. We have 61 ventilators available in our warehouse. Gov. Murphy that is it for the entire state. Thats right. Gov. Murphy sir, you had one. Where is the meadowlands Field Hospital . Are they accepting patients yet . The about 20 or 25 patients at the meadowlands. We expect it to be 50 by the end of today. Gov. Murphy charlie . I appreciate the Health Commissioner and your Communications Team getting the numbers on the psych hospital. There are 81 staff infected at the trenton pike hospital alone and 23 patients. How much staff does that leave to hold it down there and are you moving staff around between the four staterun hospitals because of that outbreak . You may have been asked this before. I wanted to ask your take on the curfew here in trenton. The mayor has implanted a curfew for residents and businesses, 8 00 p. M. , and how you feel that comports with your executive orders. I know there are two cable internet providers that have not suspended shut offs. I think internet is really important at this time. Can you name those two and what is your message to them . Finally, on the election changes, youve made serious changes to the elections without enabling legislation, like moving the dates and extending terms of board of ed members. That was just done by executive order solely. First of all, do you think it would be better if there was enabling legislation and do you think that is required . Would you consider making other changes that you have said you couldnt make because of the legislation, like making it easier to vote, having online registration or waiving the 21 day requirement for folks to register before the date of an election . Gov. Murphy i will take a few and you all can chime in. Judy, i will leave the Psychiatric Hospital question to you. I know people being moved around is a mantra. Pat can comment about whether there has been any evidential effect in trenton in terms of law enforcement. But to repeat, the executive orders that are binding are the ones that we sign and promulgate. That is not to say a mayor in this case, who does a great job, cant make a recommendation to folks. But in terms of an executive order, they come from us in terms of the ones that are binding. I am not aware of the two cable providers. Can you help me follow up with charlie on that . It sounds like they are not abiding by the no shut off. My message to them get with the program. Elections, we consulted the legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle. The chairs of each of the parties. This particular case, we take the step we think is the most beneficial to get the action we need, so there was broad support of that. Would i in a theoretical world, would enabling legislation make it stronger . What is your view on that . There are some bills on monday that would ratify some of the changes. Gov. Murphy that is a belt and suspenders. I would say this. When you can do legislation it is going to be a stronger, sturdier and more lasting reality. When you are in an emergency as we are in, it is feasible to step out. I would refer to your last question in terms of other things we would like to see in opening up democracy, which i am frustrated by that we have not seen sooner. Even if they gave me the legal authority, those are things, if they were lasting as opposed to the march and april elections of 2020, which is a oneoff going into may 12, i would prefer to do it by legislation and that is the right way to deal with it. You have looked left and right. You cannot believe how few reporters are here. He went down to your second or third well of questions. How about the Psychiatric Hospitals . We are concerned about the staffing, the manpower specifically at trenton. The whole workforce is something we are keeping an eye on. Trenton is more concerning compared to the others. We are waiting for the testing to come back on about 153 of the staff members. Right now, we see Positivity Rate that is not causing us as much concern as we originally thought. We just have to keep an eye on it. As with all of our hospitals, we are putting in a crisis staffing. You start with conventional staffing. Then you go for contingency staffing when things get tight under normal circumstances, or a high flu season. Then you go to crisis staffing where you promote safe care, if not the best care. Gov. Murphy we will get back to the internet providers. I dont know the answer to that. One more. The ventilators down to 61, is that a major you said you could handle bed capacity. Is only having 61 ventilators a concern . We have a big concern for ventilators. We do inventories of all alternative ventilators, anesthesia machines, bypass machines, home ventilators. We are having the most efficient and effective result with anesthesia machines, of which we have a lot of but they do have to be modified. Gov. Murphy i want to say i think pat was on with us at the senior staff level, among other highpriority topics for were ventilators. Anything i have skipped or any other topics . I would never speak on behalf of the mayor of trenton, but i think a combination of both social distancing as well as the eight shooting victims and three homicides over the weekend may have led the mayor to that decision. Our crime suppression detectives and troopers are in lockstep with the trenton Police Department. After that happened, they executed a search for the other night and recovered ar15, three handguns and narcotics. Its a constant partnership with trenton. I think it is a combination of response to covid19 as well as trying to mitigate Violent Crime in our capital. Gov. Murphy i would say the relationship between the state police and trenton is on the one hand the deepest of relations, would that be fair to say . With any community. I got this mask with the new jersey flag state colors. I want to thank judy and dr. Christina tan for your extraordinary leadership. Jared, to you and your team at homeland security. 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