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Virus committee, saying both were unnecessary at this time. The reporter questioning part of the briefing due to technical issues at the beginning. Our first question comes from Eric Wasserman from bloomberg news. A quick question. You say it would be inappropriate to assess the esp. Could you specifically address infrastructure . Are you opposed to that idea some part later this year . Im not opposed infrastructure but im opposed to is using a crisis to try and restructure government. Watching dealing with when we were trying to put the deal together on sunday. 90 of that will turned out exac...

Today, we have taken a number of have received 400 ventilators from the Strategic National stockpile on tuesday. They said more on the way and we are grateful, but we still need a lot more. We recently announced that detroit will be one of the first cities in america to receive five testing machines and 5000 kits. Used to testill be police and fire emf workers. It produces results in 15 minutes and that is fantastic. Each machine does one sample at a time so detroit will have the 050 results per hour and that is why it has to be focused on the frontline. President trump granted my request for ...

Conducted in commercial labs. The increase of cases appears to be less a sign of exponential growth over the last couple of days and more a sign of a logjam for commercial labs that have developed over a long period of time. And so many of these tests were taken several days, if not longer ago. It is a very good thing that the louisiana has been able to rapidly wrap up testing. In fact, depending on the day, we are somewhere between the third in the nation or fifth in the nation in terms of per capita testing. That said, the reason weve been able to wrap up is weve got more and more commercial...

Governor cuomo good morning. Good to see all of you. Smiling faces. Mostly smiling faces. Ill just give you an update as to where we are today. The number of cases continues to increase. Were up to 7,917. The number of people tested, again, is the highest rate in the country. And per capita higher than china, per capita higher than south korea. We tested 18,000 people, total tested 238,000, which is a lot of people but remember new york, youre talking on a base of 19 million. Number of positive cases up to 8,669, 92,000 total in the state. Predominantly in new york city, but you see westcheste...

Murphy gave an update on his states response to the coronavirus, saying the death toll and the number of cases continue to rise. He talks about the backlog in testing and criminal charges for violating social distancing rules. Gov. Murphy good afternoon. Table byd at the head the woman to my right who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the department of health, Judith Persichilli. To her right, the state epidemiologist. Honored to have you both with us. Farleft, the state Police Superintendent patrick callahan, as usual. The director of Homeland Security protected nest. Also joining us...