We will be plotting these numbers over a timeline. We believe and hope that this will put some of the daily numbers into a broader and better context. First, here we go. Here are the raw numbers. 3026 neware reporting confirmed test result and the statewide total is now 81,420. 10 00 hospitals as of p. M. Last evening, 7718 residents were hospital his eyes hospitalized. Two thousand 24 were in critical 1641 ventilators were in use. 90 patients are at one of our field medical stations and for the 24 hour period ending at 10 00 p. M. Last evening, 814 residents were discharged from our hospitals. Lets do this differently and put these numbers into proper context. The first graph we are showing rate of growth of new cases over the past 21 days. As you can see, we are flatten the curve. This is a credit to each and every one of you who has taken to heart our aggressive social distancing measures and who continue to do your part so thank you. Again, these are dailies. The bars are the amounts per day of positive test results and the fits is the one that through that set of bars over three weeks. Chart wen second will pull up, this is the daily rates of new hospitalizations. As you can see we have been able to create some stability here as well. There is a direct causeandeffect relationship between the first graph and this graph. The slower the rate of new cases, the slower the rate of infections, the slower the rate of new hospitalizations. I beds required, ventilators required, and these that result. It is literally almost a mathematical derivation exercise. As personal as each one of these cases are, they have a name, a face, they are human beings and belong to the beloved new jersey community, at the same time, we can derive formulas and models ly. This chart plots the number of new hospitalizations against the number of daily discharges. As you can see over the past three weeks, we have been able to move these lines closely together to the point we are now reporting more people leaving the hospital and entering. Finally, here are the daily number of patients in intensive and Critical Care over the past 21 days. Throughout the past week, we have seen these numbers begin and i say begin to stabilize. Graphs are what we need to see and they are why we must keep up our aggressive social distancing. So far, so good, we just cannot let up. This map which you have been seeing for the past number of to why what weds are doing is working. This is the time it is taking each county to double across the state. The numbers are a little bit small. You will see numbers ranging from nine days to double all the double. T 19 days to the higher that number is, the better it is. Lets keep that map as light as possible and those numbers continue to go up. That is thanks to everybody out there. It is your efforts that are leading to these results. We just have to stay at it. Not forever, that we have to stay at it for now. Hearts, thisiest is dated that we also have to report. We continue to lose residents to colby 19 covid19. Another 231 precious lives lost and we have lost a total of 4070 blessed souls. It is a number that takes your breath away. Is of these who we have lost fire captain richard campbell. He was a 28 year veteran firefighter. Firefighting and Public Service ran in his blood as he followed his father in the line of service as did his brother who sadly passed last year. Mayor tom lanky said that his short a hero. S out of thick there could ever be better words by which to remember him. Condolencesdeepest to his wife kimberly who i had the honor of speaking with this morning and therefore children who range in age from 27 down to 11. I want you to keep arianna in a special place in your heart as you pray for this family. May richard rest in peace and may his memory bring comfort to his family and to all who knew him. God bless him. Here is another member of our family. He was 77 years old when he passed on monday. For 36 years he was a forensic scientist at new Jersey State Police is police North Regional Library and the team knew him well. He is remember by many for his dry sense of humor. He was a vietnam veteran and his wife reminded me, as a result of all of the cold morbidity that you have been warning about that made him my direct target of this awful virus. The continued service to our nation in the u. S. Army reserves rank of the link lieutenant colonel. He was dedicated to the committee of maywood, he served on the maywood board of education on the Recreation Commission and is an assistant boy scout leader to troop 12. What a servant. He is survived by his wife of 44 years, i spoke with her this morning. He is also survived by their children, his daughter and his son, u. S. Navy lieutenant who is deployed at the moment. Keep them in your prayers. May god bless them all. Marybeth beth said one of the great memories of his life was when he was on the board of education, he got to hand eat his daughter and son there isil diploma. Hand eat his daughter and son their high school diploma. Alex grew up in union city and even though he lived in glenridge, he remained committed to his first hometown in a big way. After joining Union City Police in 1999, 21 years ago, he is one of the original members of the Emergency Services unit and at the time of his passing was serving as a detective in the training division. He leaves behind two adult giuliano with who i had the honor of regan, the honor of speaking. And his son alex who is in philadelphia. He is remembered by his colleagues for his softspoken and genuine. He was only 52 years old. We haves you alex and your memory and your children in our deepest prayers. Each of these lives epitomized service. We know every Single Person we have lost in this pandemic has been a cherished and invaluable member of their communities as well. Ways largeve back in and small. For that we thank them and honor them. We commit to them that we will do everything in our power to stop the spread of this disease and lose fewer and fewer residents to it. Throughout this emergency, i have been in contact with mayors and elected officials of all shapes and sizes. Mayors up and down our state and they have all reported to me that the overwhelming majority of their residents recognize the vital importance of doing the right thing. It is staying home even when it stops being fun. For that we are deeply appreciative, thankful, and respectful. Friend and coach reminded me that he is still hearing from too many people who continue to think that it is just the flu and that they dont have to change their habits. He suggested for us to remind you why that is not the case. Let me speak in particular directly to anyone who is sticking to this way of thinking. I cannot put it more bluntly. Based on everything we know at this time, that point of view is wrong. Surely we see flu outbreaks every year and yes people die of the flu every year. The flu has not because of the devastation we are seeing. Especially among our most vulnerable populations. Look at the longterm care facilities. Look at veterans homes if you need any proof. The data we are seeing, the numbers and the science prove how this is a different enemy. Take a couple of numbers to heart, if i can. Lostst six weeks, we have 4070 listed New Jerseyans to covid19. That is more than the cdc statistics show we have lost flu seasonst three in their entirety combined. Moreow that covid19 is virulent than the flu and one person can impact many more without showing any symptoms. Unless someone is exposed, it to take a long time, 14 days develop this illness. The hospitalization rate for covid19 is far greater than what it is for the flu. The general hospitalization rate for the flu is 1 10 of 1 of cases. Already look at the numbers we present for covid19, it is roughly 10 . 100 more timesor likely to end up in the hospital based on what we now know. Finally, this is probably the most obvious point, we have vaccines that can protect against the flu. We have proven antiflu therapies. We are at least one year away if not longer from a vaccine for covid19. While there are promising earlystage trials, there are probably no proven therapeutics. This is a pandemic the likes of which we have not seen in a century. If you have been keeping your eyes and mind close to the facts and the science, i beg you to open them. Open them wide before you become one of the numbers that i report here every day. I know judy and ed would want me to remind you, will we learn more, the answer is yes. Yes, over time the contrast between covid19 and coronavirus outthe year end and year may change. Before we get a vaccine, god willing, we will get therapeutics. There are some studies out now that claim that more folks have been infected unwillingly are asymptomatic but have been touched by this already. There is a big debate about will warm weather impacted this and it is an open question. No experts will give you a definitive answer and say yes or no to that effect. In the meantime, please trust us a somewhat we now know. The every day flu which could be a big challenge is in a completely different category than what we are talking about here. Got that off my chest, a couple of other items i wanted to quickly brief you on. I had a concerning call from Chuck Schumer that there is not momentum right now in congress to put any amount of money into direct state aid and that would lead unequivocally to a national disaster. As i mentioned, we are looking at what the Federal Reserve has presented to us in terms of a potential Municipal Bond program. I was happy to see the speaker say yesterday that he was looking forward to working toward a responsible plan, i think that is a good word to use. We need that now more than we did 24 hours ago. When you hear that congress, i will not get political, there is one part of congress that does not see the wisdom to put direct money into states. Let me tell you the alternative. Particularly if we cannot borrow that, we will have layoffs will be historic in the history of our state, at the county level, and at the local level. I dont know how many, but it is big, big numbers. I plead this is not either or. We need both direct Financial Assistance to states from a bill passed by congress and signed by the president and we will need bonding flexibility in either case. I would just plead with folks on both sides of the aisle to please step to that reality sooner than later and make that happen. Ave been back and forth secretary Robert Wilkie of the veterans affairs, he and his team have been back and forth with our team and helping us work through the veterans homes in particular. More on that over the coming days, but i want to give him a big shout out. As angry as we are, and i can speak on behalf of all of us, at the bad apple longterm care facilities operators as angry and frustrated as we are about the completely inconsistent and unacceptable level of communication, it must be said like any community, there are good apples and good actors. I want to make sure the coaches realized that. With time, we will find ways to shout them out. Regardless of the operator, there are heroic healthcare workers not just in hospitals, but in longterm Healthcare Facilities who are going in day after day to do the lords work , in particular, our most vulnerable and i want to make sure i say that. I made to the other day that life goes on, away from this awful virus. Deaths,ludes births, again, life goes on. I had two striking calls yesterday. Friend,a very good ,heriff gilbert whose wife president of the board of education, past due to a heart i spoke to hisd. Daughter. It was a stark reminder that life and death go on even away from this virus. Martha and god keep his daughter and her family in your hearts. Olivia wholl was to is seven years old who wrote me an incredible note. It reminded me that young kids are watching. I spoke to her and her mom. Marywin and her big sister that is a good reminder folks of all ages are paying attention. They are following this. She wanted to reach out and she sent me a note to say we are with you in this and hang in there and it was an incredible conversation and it was starker coming on the back of just coming off of the phone. The young, the old, the here, the now, the outflows, the omegas in our society who are swept up by this virus and those who are swept up by life. I have no new announcements beyond that. I want to remind everybody on testing, there are roughly 70 testing sites up and running across our state, both privately and publicly accessible. A complete list of the publicly accessible site can be found at. Gov testing. Right aid is beginning an appointment only Testing Program at three of its locations. A store in Bergen County opened its program today. And barrington is set to open on monday in ocean county to follow on wednesday. These sites will be added to our online list and you can go to aid. Com for more information and to make an appointment. Your primary Care Practitioner can direct you to many other sites should you meet the requirements for covid19 testing. We continue to work aggressively to ramp up testing capabilities as we know having a strong testing regime in place is critical for us moving forward as we begin to plan to reopen our state. The order of events is crack the back of this virus. And, the new cases down please god, fatalities to a much lower number. Make sure we have in place the proper healthcare infrastructure. Rapidscaled testing, contact tracing, a means to quarantine and isolate. Those elements must be in place. With that, we can have the conference confidence that we can begin to open up again. We continue to ask for volunteers with medical experience to join our army against covid19. Specifically we need respiratory therapists, nurses, and paramedics. If you have experience, please. Gov and in19. Nj doing so, well be adding your name to the healthcare workers who have volunteered with us. For those of you who want to start giving back to your community, not necessarily because you are a ok worker but you want to get back, please. Gov help and9. Nj we will match you with whetherities near you it be people with special needs or those hoping to start a local food pantry, these are critical needs. Before i turn things over, i want to mention a young man in Cumberland County we who we should be celebrating today. It is his 12th birthday. He is a sixth grader in middle school. He had an unusual request for birthday presents. He asked for his neighbors to bring him boxes of pasta and cans and jars of tomato sauce that he will donate to the soup kitchen. Toant to give a shout out the guy that sent this my way, the president of the board of trustees of the soup kitchen. Since the emergency started, the soup kitchen is serving 120 meals to almost double that, if not more. He set up his cable outside of his house and yesterday alone, more than 100 people drove past and dropped off with social distancing some birthday presents for him. He is back at it again today so if you are in south jersey, go wish him a happy birthday from a distance. Make sure you have your face covered. Atis our east grand avenue south main road. His dad, another friend of mine, is a firefighter. The apple of service does not fall far from the tree. Wish you the very happiest of birthdays and we thank you. If you know someone like dominic making a difference, tell us their story on social media. It is these stories of hope and optimism and service to community that are drawing us together even as we have to stay apart. To everyone doing the right thing to help us flatten and eventually break the back of this curve, thank you. Your efforts are making a real difference. It is how we will defeat covid19 and come out strong and ready to get our state back on its feet, back to where it was, and back to where we know it can be again. With that, help me welcome the woman who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the department of health. Thank you, governor. Good afternoon. Each day i read race and ethnicity statistics that demonstrate the just proportion impact that the coronavirus is having on communities of color. I would like to put that in more context this afternoon. Studies have shown for years that the social conditions in which people are born, learn, live, work, and age affect their health. In other words, your zip code sometimes matters more than your genetic code. These social determinants of health, economic stability, education, healthcare, social support, and Environmental Issues like air pollution in cities that contribute to high asthma rates place an additional layer of Health Concern on top of this pandemic for new jerseys communities of color. Lady and, the First Lieutenant governor, Human Services commissioner Karol Johnson and i discussed these issues tuesday night with senator ron rice and the new Jersey Medical association. The new Jersey Medical association is a chapter of the National Medical association, the largest and Oldest National organization representing africanamerican physicians and their patients in the u. S. We were joined by their campbell, and the bay, dr. Position, dr. Page, dr. Cook, dr. Roesch, dr. Natalie duncan, and dr. Hutchinson. These physician leaders raise important issues and we share their concerns and we will be working on their suggestions. The members of the association are basically trying to rely on telehealth in their urban environments and share with us how difficult that is. They support more testing in community clinics. They called out areas that we should be focusing and they talk about the importance of staying at home and social distancing but that that is very difficult to do. We will continue to work with senator rice and the new Jersey Medical association to do everything in our power to reduce the just proportionate impact that the coronavirus is having on communities of color. We must ensure that all of our communities stay safe and healthy during these difficult times. As the governor shared for todays report, our hospitals 7017 hospitalizations last week. On the a 3 decrease daily growth rate for the past two days. There are 2000 24 patients in Critical Care. 1161 of those are on ventilators. 814 covid positive patients were discharged yesterday. Tonging our total discharges 9692. Today we are reporting free thousand 26 cases for a total of 81,420 cases in our state. 231 new deaths have been reported to the department. There are 125 new deaths reported and associated with longterm care facilities. We share our condolences with the families who have lost someone they loved. According to data from this morning, of the seven laboratories sending us covid19 results, 147,850 tests were performed. 66,734 returned positive. 45. 14 . Tivity rate is our state psychiatric hassles are reporting 119 patient testing positive and as i reported yesterday, they sadly report seven of their population have passed away. The new jersey veterans since 787, 151 have tested positive and they have reported 59 deaths. At there no cases vineland location. The breakdown on race and ethnicity is as follows. 50. 9 percent white, nonhispanic. 22 blacknonhispanic. 16. 7 hispanic. The underlying conditions of our fatalities remain the same. Thank you again for staying home and maintaining social distancing. It is surely making a difference. Stay connected, stay safe, and stay healthy. Thank you. Judy, thank you to you and the team for extraordinary leadership. Counties with positive tests. The list of the top six that have been the most impacted in terms of positives and sadly fatalities. Fergus, hudson, essex, union, passaic and middlesex. To repeat something we have said many times in deep appreciation for your opening remarks about the discussion with senator rice and other physicians, the african megan incidents of fatalities is running about 50 higher than the overall representation in our state. Calls that you have referred to. That is something we will stay on. The hispanic number is a little shy of the overall presentation. As i mentioned in prior with the quite at odds new york city numbers. That is something we will reiterate we are looking at carefully and closely. With that, for compliance. Ppe, infrastructure and other welcome colonel callahan. Newark issued 88 yield violations and shut down four nonessential businesses. Passaic, four subjects were cited and had been an altercation at a party that should not have been gathered. Toms river, normandy beach, a subject was found kite surfing off the beach and found himself in distress. Multiple lifesaving units responded. He was recovered without incident and subsequently appropriately cited for the violation. Fort noris, a subject involved in a Motor Vehicle accident was unresponsive. Officers had utilized narcan to revive him. He was found in possession of heroin and had no lawful purpose to be out. He was cited the violation. Point pleasant beach, a subject in the lobby became unruly, claiming to have covid symptoms. Coughing on ems workers and officers. Hazlett, responding to an altercation, a subject was cited for the violation. In sparta a few days ago i subject had been a subject without a mask was disorderly. Reported to the police yesterday. When the Police Finally Found the subject who questioned him, he became resistant. T them andem, bi physically resisted. Spit in the holding cell and urinated. And had to be sanitized. He was obviously cited for the violation. Gov. Murphy where was that . I was going to say sparta, sussex. Irvington, officers asked a subject to disperse. The subject became unruly and spat on the police officer, shouting he had corona. He was obviously charged. In jersey city, and airbnb party, 15 people were having a party. I think they ultimately cited four subjects for being in violation. Citedzabeth, eight were after previously want to disperse days before. Whorenton, a subject organized a protest from yesterdays pending charges. Not so much for the protest itself but for not having social distance involved with being in a large gathering. The last one, southhampton, a driving under the for driving under the influence spit. While the trooper was escorting her to the vehicle she subsequently punched the trooper in the face. Incidents,t many some were fairly egregious last night. On the longtermcare front, because that is such a challenging issue for us across the state, i want everyone to know out of our ppe allocation officesll 21 county of Emergency Management that serves as the point of distribution, all are receiving face shields, gowns and masks, gloves and Hand Sanitizer in our efforts to keep everyone safe and longterm care facilities. That is all i have. Gov. Murphy those are going specifically to longterm care . Yes or. Yes, sir. Gov. Murphy on a very positive note, notwithstanding some of the extraordinary lack of compliance stories, particularly the aggressive behavior and others, thefect complaint overall in the state is extra others, the complaint overall in the state is extra nearing. You would not get the map we showed earlier, the flattening in those charts judy and i were looking at. There is clear progress being made here. Let there be no doubt about it. Dont ever say we did not say that. Heres the problem, and to repeat, the short connection between an abrupt change in Human Behavior and all those charts, graphs and progress is shocking. If we all let her hair down right now, if we let our guard down right now, we would literally see it tomorrow. We are not out of the woods. We have not yet plateaued. We are still memorializing hundreds of people dying a day. Again, admittedly, these are folks most likely infected two or three weeks ago. We accept that and we know that but we are not out of the woods yet. The progress is undeniable. That is thanks to each and every one of you. But there is a grave responsibility which remains in all of our hands to continue that progress and to not backslide. Please stay with us. I know it is frustrating. Today the weather is not so hot in tomorrow it will be better. It inevitably will get better. You want to get out. We get it. Please stay home. Stay away from each other. Find ways to get fresh air that is responsible. We will get through this together. Unequivocally we will get through this together. Notwithstanding those rather sobering reports to say the least, the compliance is overwhelming. That report on ppe in particular longterm care facilities weve had good discussions with the secretary of veteran affairs and his teams. There is a lot in motion. Notwithstanding we are in a world of hurt. Let me say before we start, itorrow, unless you hear, will be electronic paper. If there is a reason to get together on the phone or in person, we will get to it immediately. We have a vtc with the white house on monday. Our gathering here will be together for that but we will be here at 2 00 on monday and not 1 00. Tuesday and wednesday, we will you know the latest on monday, we have a little travel in each of those days tentatively scheduled to go visit some of the work being done to build our capacity. Includingls on that how that impacts the time we gather for this daily event. Is that fair . We will get everybody. John, good afternoon. On the racial disparity, are you compiling data by zip code . Can we get that at some point to see where things are . The breakdown town by town . Any update her detailing on the inspections and teams Center Nursing homes . Id those bad apples nursing home operators we dont know about . The total number of deaths in Nursing Homes, you mentioned 125. Was that new deaths or total deaths . They are asking about reports that 80 of deaths in kinley county where residents at Nursing Homes. Is that accurate . Gov. Murphy duty, i will start and ask you to come in. On that last question, i dont know the answer but there were 73 fatalities as we sit here in camden county, just to put a total number on it. Judy, i cant verify the 80 . Perhaps judy can. I will say this on the racial data. We will endeavor to get as granular as we can. I cant promise you when that is going to going to be public but that is not something we will hold back. Bear with us on that. I would think we would be able to ultimately do this by zip code. We will be as hyper transparent on everything but particularly on that as we can. I cant promise you when. Judy can update you on inspections of teams. I will make this a general comment and judy and i will keep it that way on the veterans homes. On whatill taking form the help will look like. At a minimum it will be a significant amount of help at menlo park in paramus. And paramus. Judy, ifral matter, you can talk about the inspections. I wont get into the bad apples today. I promise you i was saying the opposite. I was hoping we could celebrate the good apples. Not everybody is ignoring their responsibilities right now. My particular plea for folks to remember the Health Care Workers are heroes, whether they are in a hospital, longterm care home for develop mentally disabled, a veterans home, etc. Let me start with the teams. Fiveurvey team went out to longterm care facilities in the north yesterday. Additionalsiting an 11 over the weekend. The survey of the andover facility, the cms survey and the state surveyor is completed a Conference Call was held with the owner and nursing consultant yesterday. He received several citations. He is required to submit a plan of correction on monday. The plan of correction includes onsite inspection prevention Infection Prevention specialist, chief nurse officer and leadership administrative manager. Camden, i dont have the exact percentage. I can tell you overall in new jersey 40 of our deaths are related in some way to longterm care. I dont have camdens specifics. Looking at all deaths, particularly individuals from our urban centers by zip code. I dont have that with me. It is certainly information we need. Thank you, john and judy. You hadion to the cms, your people at andover and the attorney general is conducting an investigation as well. Thank you, john. Good afternoon. Frome first questions are maria kramer from the new york times. The fatality numbers provided every day suspected cases plus confirmed cases . Or are they just confirmed cases . Totalso asks whether the number of nursing home deaths released yesterday and those today had up to 1655 . My own questions, is new jersey relying solely on the federal government for test kits . Is it making any testing kit purchases itself . If so, from what sources and in what quantities . Down the road, what would a widescale Testing Program look like . Are you talking about all 9 million residents . What is a realistic timetable to start . Most important, what do you do with this testing data . Elise, judy and pat with your blessing, i will say couple of things here. Questions, let me just say one thing we have said before. I mentioned it fatality could be someone correct me if im wrong could be someone infected some two or three weeks ago. They did not all necessarily passed between 2 00 yesterday and 1 00 today. I believe the reason is you are confirming these, are you not . We gain to count every death out there we think is related to covid. You talked about confirmed deaths. The numbers we report everyday and our daily numbers are confirmed deaths. These are people that had lab tests that tested positive for covid. Then attempt to link those back to people who died in longterm care facilities. That is sometimes a slower process. We might reefs we might report that but not connected until a week later. Sometimes you cant look at them daytoday as far as that goes. In an attempt to get as accurate a picture as fast as we can out about what is going into the longterm care facilities, since we know a lot of people who died had not been tested and wont have results yet when we release results related to longterm care facilities, and those numbers sometimes we include those people who may not have been confirmed but are associated with an effort that has been confirmed. An outbreak that has been confirmed. Do. Murphy the question is, the longterm care numbers add up to 1655 fatalities . Can we come back to you on that . Test kits. We have more sources than the feds at the moment. Rutgers university is one good example of that. I cant give you a particular detailed rundown of the variety of sources. We can come back to you on that. Do you have that . Can we come back to you with some broad sense of that . Ed, what is a testing regime going to look like in your opinion to be able to give us the confidence to be able to begin to reopen the economy . Is it a statistically significant percentage . What would you look at is the satisfactory level . In an ideal world, which we would never be at, you want to test everybody every day to see if they were exposed and possibly infected. That is just not possible. What we need to do is prioritize. At the very least we need enough testing so the people who are ill can be tested easily and quickly and reliably and get results fast, and enough testing to ensure certain populations such as our Health Care Workers and so forth who were coming into regular contact with ill people are reliably known to be not infected. You do need to have some testing as background surveillance to get a sense of what is happening in the general community. As to exact numbers, i dont have an exact number of the types of tests. This will be a combination of a variety of different types of tests. There are a lot of Different Things out there. More tests are coming online as well. Gov. Murphy i think we said the other day we are currently doing between 7000 and 9000 a day. Brokers has the ability to do up debts000 whether current with their current configuration with their current configuration. There is a Rapid Response on those tests. That will be as important as how many we have. We need to know quickly. Folks are still waiting. It has gotten better but its not just the scale. It is the rapidity. It will have to be before we can confidently reopen. I hope that is sooner than later. I think we have said this before. On the list of unknowns i mentioned warm weather. That gets actively debated. It is fair to Say Something like told us also you got potential for a reboot. You could have if you follow that path, you have a fairly benign Summer Season in the northern hemisphere. Then we got whacked again badly in the fall. We just want to repeat that provokes. Even if we play our hand perfectly, that is a potential. Is that fair to say . Kenny anything to add generally or on the Nursing Homes . Com. Persichilli the tests was 655. And includes covid positive deaths. Deaths and persons with pending test results and respiratory illness deaths there was covid testing was not performed. The assumption is that there is a possibility they were covid so they are in that number as well. Gov. Murphy thank you. Do you have anything . With all thats going around the country gov. Murphy can you get closer . With whats going on around the country, governors and the president , everyone is being positive opening the beaches in jacksonville. How do you get people to understand it is different there than here and appreciate the difference . Gov. Murphy i have been to jacksonville a lot and i have been to florida a bunch over the years but i cant say with great granularity i personally or that we have deep insights into what is going on there. Absolute evident and natural pent up desire to begin to get back to normal. That is shared by everybody, including us. This is not like we dont see that. But we have to continue to make our decisions based on the facts. Based on data and based on science. We have to have a plan. Behindsaw our lives the curtain, he would see a number of parallel tracks run at the same time. The most important is to put the house fire out. Was in a also see i call earlier today on what elements we need to have in place for our economy. With leader schumer last night and other members of the federal side of the ledger talking about the urgent need for financial support. You heard ed and judy and me to some extent talk about what a Health Care Infrastructure needs to look like to be in place in new jersey to give us the confidence we can begin to open that up. That is sort of that is the reality we see in new jersey. We want to get back to some kind of a normal. Who wouldnt . We want to do that, but we cannot do that if it means we put lives at risk. We just cant do that. We will continue to call the shots based on the facts. I cant speak for the decisions that get made or dont get made if youida, but i do know stick to the facts and you stick to the data, i think you get something that looks like what we are doing. We cant predict timing either. I think it is fair to say we know what the Program Needs to look like. I think. We just dont know i cant give you a date because there is a fair amount of hip bones connected to the thigh bones. Success in putting the house fire out and the faster we can do that together, and thanks to everybody helping us do that because you are the ones who are cang that, the faster we get to the other steps we need to take. Thank you. We will go over to brent here. Are you all right . . How can you say the curve is flattening if youre not testing more people each day and the percentage of positives is so high . Families are telling us testing and Nursing Homes is very limited. Priority . Y be a plead what the National Guard in Nursing Homes as a top doctor suggested yesterday . Does the total number of reported deaths in longterm care facilities include deaths that have been different patient was transferred to a hospital or just if they died there . Do the numbers reflect only and staff at longterm facilities . Do the numbers reflect just patients or staff and patients . Are you are where there are empty beds inside University Hospital and the er is backed up everyday because of a Staffing Shortage . Anything new on the main one property tax deadline. That will remain in place. What do you say to protesters after woman was arrested here yesterday for doing her thing . Gov. Murphy should we address these by alphabetical height . [indiscernible] gov. Murphy ok. Bless you. What dowe are in a particularly charitable mood today. Curve flattening. I will give you two curves, one of which i mentioned to be determined what the denominator is. There are lots of different studies. Have any people actually have been exposed to this . That is going to be one of the big pursuits. Not just in new jersey but in america. There are a couple of curves we do know. We know people who pass. Judy reminds me, we know hospitalizations. We know icu beds. We know that for sure. That curve those curves are flattening. Those are ones we would far more admittedlyts on then the positive test curve is flattening. It is flattening and i think everyday i have said it, the amount of testing sites either held or have gone up. I would still say we dont know what the denominator is, we are getting more testing in more places in the state in the curve is still flattening. Testing in Nursing Homes, judy i will let you come back to that one. The National Guard. That continues to be an option on the table. Longterm care details in terms of both where they pass, whether it is a in the home or hospital, i will defer to judy. Patients and staff, i think we can give you that as well. Empty beds at University Hospital. Judy ran University Hospital. She is more qualified to talk to that. You have a number of capacities we are desperately staying ahead of. I said this he doggedly. Beds, ventilators, medicines, ppe, Health Care Workers. Those are all they are the heroes here. Those are all capacities, if you want to put it that way, we are desperately trying to stay out in front. Workers are not only heroes but they are beat up right now. Sadly, areem, many, infected. A lot are quarantined. They are literally our heroes. Nothing new on the property tax deadline. Sorry to disappoint. On the protesters, listen. With all due respect, anybody who things we are doing this just to take away peoples liberties and rights is not looking at the data we are looking at. We are doing what were doing to save lives and keep as few people as infected and hospitalized as possible. We are trying every step of the weight to make the right calls based on those facts. We will continue to do that. The minute we think we can begin to tweak this, open things up based on data and facts and science we will be out. There doing just that in the meantime, i asked folks i respect your right to protest, but trust us on this. We are basing this on the facts. Nursing homes where folks passed, patients versus staff at University Hospital. Com. Persichilli let me start with University Hospital. All of our hospitals at 10 30 every night, we know exactly how many icu beds they have. How many are filled. How many are empty. We have them on the full Hospital Capacity as well. In someeeing open beds of our hospitals. There are no elective surgeries being done. Surgical units that are not filled at this point with patients that are covid positive or pending are empty. We want it that way. I think the governor mentioned healthcare workers need a break as well. This perhaps gives it to them. We look at beds, Health Care Workers, Critical Care beds and ventilators. At 10 30 every night we know exactly what is going on throughout the whole 71 acutecare hospitals in the state. I can show you our graphs on that. Concede we can see the dark lines. Full. Ds that are the gray line is the beds that are empty. We have this for all the hospitals. On the total deaths, ed is our watchdog on the statistics so i will let him explain the cross checking with the death certificates. I believe that is regardless of location. Dr. Lifshiftz the commissioner is correct. We associate the death with the operate, it is counted as part of that outbreak. That is part of the hospital. Com. Persichilli as far as testing, today we have a Conference Call about developing our strategy for testing in longterm care facilities. More to come on that. It is a priority. Needless to say it is happening. We want to make that more robust than it is. Com. Persichilli exactly. Gov. Murphy we get most of those . Charlie, how are you . Toave to bout a ask about any consistency. You are hyper transparent today. You did sign a bill to relax the open public records act. Now youre at ministries and has the nightly s1 request for the has denied at least one request for the daily data. Will that data be made public . Your response was your default position, is to give you as much as we can buffer privacy considerations we asked for more time to put some information out there on your own. I give you more time. I followed up on april 3 at your briefing. You asked to clarify the question. This is less a question of where we have the data and when we get it. When we get it, is this going to be data everyone has access to . Your quote was, there is no reason not to. I followed up after the meeting. What is the question . I filed an open request to get data. I was surprised to get a rejection letter yesterday. What changed since april 3 . Gov. Murphy no idea. Better luck next time. What is your next question . To every Health Commissioner does not see a reason not to end you dont see a reason not to, if you all dont see a reason not to, why zero administration rejecting request for that, youre a mr. Risch and reverse its position on this and release the Important Information about health care . Gov. Murphy i have no idea. I just saw the following posts by the surrogate in atlantic county. Let me say, folks, the careful with statements like this. Atlantic county officials need to sound the alarm, reopen new jersey immediately without restrictions, trust american freedom, ingenuity, and the u. S. Constitution, untied the hands of the private sector so we can rescue new jersey from this nightmare. 19 persons have died from covid19 in atlantic county. I would just say this, folks. That is a responsible. Irresponsible. We untied the system right now, they will be blood on our hands. I want to make sure folks understand this. This is literally lifeanddeath. What we need now is responsible leadership. We dont need irresponsible leadership. When you responsible leadership. Im open minded. Have you thought about this . Ive had a lot of very constructive, and i will say with whyck and forth are we keeping our parks closed. A lot of golfers out there want to golf. Its been a very in picking those as an example. Those have been good backandforths. We believe strongly what we are doing on both of those fronts is what we need to do to keep people safe, keep them out of hospitals and ultimately keep them alive. We did not do it if we do not think otherwise. Why would we make you not go to a park if we didnt think we were trying to protect the general Public Health of the state . It makes no sense. We did not run on an antipark platform. This is doing the right thing to keep people safe, keep out of hospitals and keep them alive. Anybody out there who thinks lets just open the place up will lead to lower infections, lower hospitalizations and lower fatalities is being completely and utterly irresponsible. Trust me on this. Trust us on this. We are doing this to try to keep infections as low as we can, keep hospitalizations as low as we can, and please god, key fatalities as low as we can. We will continue to do just that. The minute we think you have my word. You are all doing an extraordinary job on this. For the irresponsible, reckless actors, there are thousands times more of responsible actions. Butjust elected officials, folks in their own living rooms right now watching this. Everyday New Jerseyans doing the right things. We need you keep doing that. I promise you, from the bottom of our hearts, the minute we see data, the minute we have that Health Care Infrastructure that allows us the scaled Rapid Testing to take place, to allow us to do that contact tracing, the minute we think we have a window into that, i promise you we will be telling you that this second we have that confidence. We will be reopening parts of new jersey the minute we have that confidence. Until then, we have to trust each other. For those of you as old as i am i can speak for pat. There was a scene in Butch Cassidy and the sundance kid. Looking down 300 feet of water below. Judy, you were never this. One of them cant swim. There is a profanity which i wont use but they basically say we will hold hands and jump. Folks, im asking you. We are Holding Hands right now. We are doing everything we believe is the right thing to do to keep as many of us in this state safe and we will continue to do that. As i put my mask back on judy would be upset with me if i didnt thank you for coming out. Stay safe. Keep doing what youre doing. Youre doing a great job. We will be on electronic indication tomorrow. We will be unless there is a reason not to be in which case we will come back to you, and we will be in person together in this room unless you hear otherwise at 2 00 p. M. God bless you all. Thank you for everything you are doing. Keep it up. It is new jersey no state in america is doing what we are doing right now. Thats a tribute to all 9 million of you out there. God bless you. Thank you. Kaelin, it was here to talk to us about what is going on with the federal Small Business loan program. Tell us what the Paycheck Protection Program is and why is it out of money . Guest the Small BusinessLending Program was created by 2 trillion economic rescue