Name: NY Gov. Cuomo Says 'Words Matter' in Coronavirus Battle | Full Press Conference
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Today again, the context perspective is probably what's most important.

Corona virus is a governmental, uh, critical governmental situation.

It is a war in many ways, government as the mobile eyes as if it is a war.

Federal government is now engaged in a way they haven't been.

I've worked in the federal government That was a Cabinet secretary, one senior governors in the nation.

I know what the federal government can do.

They did it one time in this nation's history.

Uh, the federal government has the capacity to mobilize the way we need society to mobilize.

Today on dhe, I've had numerous conversations with the president.

We had a number of meetings with different federal officials yesterday on.

I think that is the best positive sign that the federal government is actually stepping up to the plate, you will see that this has been a diagnosed pardon.

The pun is a health care crisis from Moment one.

Reducing the rate of spread so the health care system can manage it.

And it's been a question of math and projections, and it is still exactly that.

Can we get the spread down to write that the health care system can manage what is going to be the issue in the health care system?

It's gonna be the number of hospital beds.

It's going to be the amount of protective equipment.

And most of all, it's going to come down to ventilators, a piece of equipment that up until now was a relatively inconsequential.

But when you have respiratory illnesses and then this volume of respiratory illnesses, all of a sudden the number of ventilators becomes critical.

Just to give you a sense of scope, we have about 11,000 ventilators that we can identify.

I was on the phone with wth e governors from the other states with the National Governors Association yesterday.

We literally literally have people in China shopping for ventilators, which is one of the largest manufacturers s.

It's an issue that the federal government can actually play.

A very constructive role is something called the Federal Defence Procurement Act, where the federal government can basically order companies to produce certain materials.

And we're going to need protective equipment in hospitals.

We're going to need ventilators, and that is something that a state can't do.

But the federal government can do also is this is gone on.

Uh, we said we're fighting a war on two fronts.

We're fighting the virus and we're fighting fear, and they're two totally different situations that you have to deal with.

In many ways, the fear is more dangerous than the virus.

I started working on disasters emergency situations when I was in my thirties.

My first experience was Hurricane Andrew in Homestead, Florida, and I felt it I saw on the ground what happens when people panic and the panic in the fear is as dangerous or more dangerous than the hurricane.

We now have misinformation and fear and panic, which is as contagious or more contagious than the virus.

I've had some conversations that are just irrational with people who are here to four were wholly rational.

I had a conversation last night with a business person from New York City who I know who, uh, was panicked, that New York City was going to be locked down, that they were going to be roadblocks, uh, that they were going to be mandatory quarantine.

He was going to be imprisoned in this house.

They're saying, uh and I would say, You know, look, I would know, right, because I would have to authorize those actions legally, it's not going to happen.

Well, I hear it is gonna happen, but I know.

But I would have to do it, and I'm telling you, I'm not doing it.

It must have taken me 25 minutes just to slow him down toe here.

When you get that emotional that uh, fearful.

You literally don't process information the same way.

So, uh, we have to be very aware of that.

Clear communication from everyone from our friends in the media, from the health care professionals for moral elected officials.

Clear communication, Consistent communication Because misinformation, emotion, fear, panic is truly more dangerous than the virus.

This position, in my opinion, because the facts on the virus we know we've watched it from China to South Korea.

It's exactly what we said it was from day one.

We talked about the vulnerable populations.

Seniors compromised immune systems, people with underlying illnesses.

We know how it communicates and we know how to deal with it.

It's not going to be pretty, but we know the trajectory of the virus.

Let's just take a deep breath on make sure we're role.

Uh, we're acting on facts as opposed to acting on fear.

When you act on fear, then you're in a dangerous place.

Let me give you a couple of the new, uh, fax today just to recap.

There are three steps flattened the curve.

Slow the spread, increase the current hospital capacity, and number three.

Mobilize operationalize, get it all done.

Get it all done today on density reduction.

Look at the increase in the number of cases.

Look at the hospital capacity and do a just and do everything you can to slow the increase of the spread so that your hospital system can deal with the growth we've been taking.

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