Department of military naval affairs. Dr. Howard zucker, commissioner of health. The president and ceo of the Greater New York hospital association. To my left, michael dowling. Larry schwartz, former secretary to the governor who has been volunteering to help us here. Michael israel president and ceo , of westchester medical center, and dan cresswell, commissioner new york city Emergency Management department. Them all very much for being here. We had a great meeting. I will refer to it in a moment. Let me wish everyone happy National Doctors day. This is a day that doctors are truly busy and truly stepping up to their oath and passion and literally saving lives. We honor all of the doctors in the state of new york today. Let me also think the people let me also thank the people from the Javits Center. The Javits Center has done many magnificent exhibitions and transformations and they never cease to amaze me. This is a transformation i dont think anyone could ever anticipate. 2500 be
Ken roski, the president and ceo of the Greater New York hospital association. To my left, michael dowling. To his left, larry schwartz, former secretary to the governor who has been volunteering to help us here. Michael israel, president and ceo of westchester medical center, and dan cresswell, commissioner new york city Emergency Management department. Let me thank them all very much for being here. We had a great meeting. I will refer to it in a moment. Let me wish everyone happy National Doctors day. This is a day that doctors are truly busy and truly stepping up to their oath and passion and literally saving lives. We honor all of the doctors in the state of new york today. Let me also thank the people from the Javits Center. He Javits Center has done many magnificent exhibitions and transformations and they never cease to amaze me. This is a transformation i dont think anyone could ever anticipate. 2500 beds as an emergency hospital. It is a partnership between state and federal
That, you see some famous sites of new york as it passed through the statue of liberty sailing into lower manhattan. World trade center in background of one of these sites, brings up memory this ship has been here before. Three days after 9 11 it helped out with first spenders then. It is back for a second go around. You have 12 operating rooms. 700 beds put into circulation right away. Mayor de blasio speaking, talking about new york has been asking for help and now the help has arrived. Heres the mayor. I cant tell you how much this means. It is so much more than even we realized at this moment, that our nation has heard our plea for help here in new york city and there could not be a better example of all of america pulling for new york city than the arrival of the usns comfort. Some major, major moment in this long battle. Connell mayor de blasio thanking by name both President Trump and defense secretary mark esper in participate of his remarks. You see numbers. New york needs hel
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards will talk about the increase in cases in new orleans and throughout the state. Later today, the White House Coronavirus task force headed by Vice President pence will hold a news conference. We will have live coverage here on cspan. And you can also follow our coverage online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called on Health Care Workers around the country to the battle coronavirus in his state. Cuomo good afternoon. Thank you for being here today. We have some people with us on the dais today. The commissioner of the new york city Emergency Management department. Let me thank them all very much for being here. We have just had a great meeting, which i will refer to in a moment. Also wish everyone happy National Doctors day. This is a day that doctors are truly busy and truly stepping up to their oath and their passion, and literally saving lives. Inhonor all of the doctors the state of new york to
Is an emergency hospital. It is a partnership between state and federal government. I want to thank them very much for what they have done. The army corps of engineers did a fantastic job thing in and getting things set up as quickly as possible. It will become operational today. We will start to run the facility and we will take it from there. Let me go through a couple of facts. You seee we are today the number of people testing continues to go up. We want to test and find the positives. We want to find the positives so we can isolate and stop the transmission. We tested 14,000 people yesterday. Out and the to go total number of quiches is 66,000 cases is 66,000. Those numbers are daunting, to be sure. It is continuing to move across the state of new york. There is only one county now that does not have a covid case. Anyone who says the situation is in new york city only is a state of denial. You see this virus move across the state. You see it move across the nation. There is no ame