Cuomo: "We are taking more tests per capita than China or South Korea" # in NY state is 45,437. Real progress but more to be done. Test, test, test. Distance, distance, distance.
2. Cuomo now praising healthcare workers, grocers, pharmacists, police, firefighters, public transit workers, childcare workers. Calls them: "everyday heroes." He's right.
3. Cuomo calls on New Yorkers to exercise kindness and gentility. "Let's find our better selves."
The rest of the country will like that one.
:-)
The rest of the country will like that one.
:-)
4. Cuomo: field hospitals to be set up in the Javits Center--1,000 beds--Westchester Convention Center and other places
5. Cuomo: city has ordered 2 million N95 face masks, mostly from foreign sources. Cost has gone from 75c each to $4. "Price gauging" says Cuomo, but what can you do?
6. Cuomo: city needs 30,000 ventilators and has ordered 6,000 from around the world. Also looking at ways to use single machines to support multiple patients.
7. Cuomo: "Now government is about, does your government know what it is doing?...This is when you need government to work like you've never seen it in your lifetime."
Says he's proud of what NY is doing.
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Says he's proud of what NY is doing.
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