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  • interruption for breaking news.

  • Just two days into the state of emergency, Governor Cuomo is holding another press conference to share the most recent information about the Cove in 19 outbreak in our area.

  • Let's listen in.

  • I have been lamenting about an issue for the past few days, but I've been lamenting about a number of issues for the past few days, one in particular that is egregious.

  • And I have raised it almost every press conference for the past week.

  • What is that issue that I have been raising as egregious for the past week?

  • CVC did A lot of testing is a good answer.

  • That's true, not the incident.

  • Looking for remaining calm Price?

  • Who said Price country Okay, price guarantee Most egregious price gouging.

  • On what?

  • Theft of medical supplies.

  • What else?

  • Hand sanitizer.

  • Okay, so now we are problem solvers.

  • State of New York, Empire State, Progressive capital of the nation.

  • Your problem's solved.

  • Your price gouging on Han hand sign sanitizer and ah, high demand for hand sanitizer.

  • What do you do?

  • Distilleries closed down.

  • Bourbon never.

  • Boy, what else do you do?

  • Make your own hand sanitizer.

  • Can you do that?

  • You should be governed.

  • Open the curtain, please.

  • We are introducing New York State clean hand sanitizer, made conveniently by the state of New York.

  • This is a superior product to products now on the market.

  • Uh, the the World Health Organization, CDC.

  • All those people suggest 60% alcohol content.

  • Purell competitors to New York State Clean, 70% alcohol.

  • This is 75% alcohol.

  • It also has a It comes in a variety of sizes.

  • It has a very nice floral bouquet.

  • Little eye detective, Lilac, hydrangea, tulips When it is not like you Tulips.

  • Yes, floral bouquet.

  • Making it in the state of New York.

  • Core craft actually is making it for the state core.

  • Craft makes glass cleaner floor cleaners, the greasers, laundry detergent, vehicle fluids, hand cleaner.

  • And now they make hand sanitizer with alcohol.

  • Uh, the we're Carmen capacity is 100,000 gallons per week, and we're going to be ramping up.

  • Will be providing this to governmental agencies, schools, the empty A prisons, et cetera.

  • Because you can't get it on the market.

  • And when you get it, it's very, very expensive.

  • S O that is now in production will start distributions.

  • We're going to distribute it to New Rochelle, which is a hot spot for us because literally, we're hearing from governments that they're having trouble getting it.

  • The also to pure Oh and Mr Amazon and Mystery Bay.

  • If you continue the price gouging, we will introduce our product, which is superior to your product, and you don't even have the floral bouquet.

  • So stop price gadget.

  • This is also much less expensive than anything.

  • Government.

  • Goodbye.

  • Just to give you an idea, a gallon bottle is $6.10.

  • The seven ounce bottle is a dollar 12 hour costs, and then there's a very small size.

  • Here it is, which is 84 cents.

  • So is much cheaper for us to make it ourselves, then to buy it on the open market.

  • And I want to thank Kelly Cummings, who got this going and core craft very much, uh, for their good work, and with that will turn out, turn it to a couple of other measures.

  • Uh, the C.

  • D.

  • C.

  • Is been speaking with us on how to handle hot spots.

  • The CDC is going to be coming out with additional guidance soon, but New Rochelle is a significant hot spot.

  • Even if you look at the overall map of the United States s so we will be talking about school closings in that area.

  • We have closed the schools.

  • Now the question will be duration.

  • But we could be talking weeks.

  • Dr.

  • Zucker has a discussion with the CDC and the FDA later on about how long to keep those schools closed.

  • But I think at this point is fair to say we're talking about a number of weeks for all schools.

  • We're going to set a policy that if a student tests positive in a school, that school is closed for an initial 24 hour period so that we can do an assessment of the situation and the facts on then make a determination going forward, given the facts in that particular school district.

  • And the Department of Health is going to be doing a joint regulation with S E d.

  • Uh, on that paid sick leave, quarantine will be sending up a bill today.

  • As you know, I proposed paid sickly, which before any of this Corona virus even began.

  • But it's even more important now.

  • I think it's especially important that If government is ordering a quarantine, even a voluntary quarantine, that place is a personal hardship on a person.

  • That person should get paid.

  • And we're going to be sending up a bill to the Legislature.

  • Will speak to the legislative leaders about that today because we have a significant number of people now on quarantine.

  • And, uh, I don't want to add to the burden that we're creating.

  • And I think the business community, it's in their interest that people actually stay home and stop the spread S o.

  • I feel good about that law.

  • I just want to get it passed.

  • I'm gonna reiterate a point that we have made before the people at risk here, our senior citizens, people with a compromised immune system, people with an underlying youngest.

  • But they should take it seriously.

  • And for people in that category, they should adjust their interactions so called social distancing.

  • I had this conversation with my mother.

  • I said, Look, you know, you want to be careful.

  • This is not the time to be going to large gatherings, So use your discretion.

  • Use your intelligence.

  • It's not the time to be getting on a long plane flight you know, we the fear and hysteria is outpacing the reality of the situation.

  • But the reality of the situation is people in that target group should be careful, right?

  • So let's be realistic on the overall hysteria and hype that we're now living through.

  • But the reality is for that vulnerable population.

  • They should be taking precautions.

  • We have, uh, our Port Authority director, Rick Cotton, who has been doing a magnificent job handling the airports.

  • JFK is one of the main airports for people coming in on those overseas flights.

  • Uh, Rick Cotton does have has tested positive for the Corona virus, so he is going to be on quarantine.

  • He'll be working at home.

  • He's the executive director of the Port Authority, so he's been at the airports.

  • Obviously, when many people were coming back with the virus, he'll be working from home.

  • And now the senior team that works with Rick will also be tested.

  • So, uh, several of them may be on quarantine and they'll be working from home.

  • The testing will go through the latest numbers, but let's also remember the context we're testing if we can.

  • The more you test, the more positives you will find and you are testing primarily a suspect group because we're testing people who we believe came in contact with a positive person.

  • We want that data because we want to find out who's positive so we can isolate them and reduce the spread.

  • But it is not a random sample.

  • It is not statistically representative of any.

  • It's it's testing up articular universe that we believe may very well have been exposed to a positive person.

  • So it's not statistically.

  • I don't know what it means.

  • I take it as good news because I want to be finding the positive so we can isolate them and we can reduce the spread.

  • And that's what the testing is all about.

  • So we did additional testing.

  • We've been basically testing around the clock.

  • Now Westchester, you see, is up to 98.

  • New York City 19 Naso 17 Rockland four Saratoga to Suffolk one Ulster one.

  • Westchester is our problem.

  • As you see from the numbers that is a relatively small community in New Rochelle, 98 cases more than the city of New York on.

  • That makes the point about gatherings, and that's my conversation with my mother And that's the caution flag.

  • Uh, it's this.

  • Communicates transmits more easily than the flu.

  • And in Westchester, what happened was there were a number of large gatherings, several 100 people, and it transmitted through that congregation.

  • But this is the hot spot.

  • One of the hot spots nationally, by the way, is the New Rochelle hot spot.

  • So it makes the point about how it can communicate in gatherings on dhe.

  • Why people have to be careful.

  • But those of the recent numbers 142 with 142 cases it puts New York.

  • Huh?

  • Well puts New York, actually ahead of Washington.

  • Uh, they just updated these numbers.

  • California 111 Massachusetts A 28.

  • And you can see the other New York.

  • The other national cases context all these numbers.

  • What does it mean?

  • What does it mean?

  • What does that mean?

  • All day long?

  • People calling me up and saying here all these numbers.

  • What does it mean?

  • It means you find the positives, you reduce the spread.

  • What is the bottom line?

  • What does this mean?

  • People are reacting like this is the Ebola virus.

  • This is not the Ebola virus.

  • This hysteria that you see this fear that you see the panic that you see is unwarranted.

  • We have dealt with worse viruses.

  • This spreads like the flu.

  • Uh, but most people will have it, and they get on with their lives.

  • Many people have it and not know that they have it.

  • So we have 142 cases.

  • 0 142 gazes.

  • What does that mean?

  • Onley Eight of the 142 are hospitalized.

  • Well, how can that be?

  • The others are at home like they have the flu.

  • Eight out of 1 42 Those are people who predominantly have an underlying illness.

  • Remember, this is basically pneumonia.

  • When is pneumonia dangerous?

  • When you have an underlying your illness not just this virus, uh, for decades.

  • When is pneumonia problematic?

  • When you have an underlying illness and that's what this is.

  • So eight out of 1 42 puts it in focus and puts it in perspective.

  • And this is the single most demonstrative fact.

  • Okay, all this hyperbole or these opinions?

  • What's the fact?

  • Johns Hopkins tracks every Corona virus case since it started What happened?

  • 111,000 cases.

  • 3800 deaths.

  • 62,000 recovered, 45,000 pending.

  • Still recover.

  • God said, That's tracking every Corona virus case.

  • It's not good that 3800 people passed away.

  • That's true.

  • That is very true, by the way.

  • 10 times that number will pass away from the flu this year.

  • Now people don't realize that they don't think about it.

  • But that's what the flu does on a seasonal basis.

  • So a little perspective.

  • We have to keep it all in perspective on with that, I'll end there and take your questions.

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  • I've been here.

  • I've been missing all this fun into keeping it perspective.

  • Do you have any thoughts to limiting large gatherings of the capital or possibly even postponing session for a couple of weeks?

  • There's an idea.

  • Post bone session.

  • Send the legislature home.

  • Yeah, you know you.

  • This is all about reducing the spread, reducing the number of people who get it.

  • Why?

  • Because you want to protect the vulnerable population.

  • That's all this is.

  • It comes back to my mother.

  • It comes back to the vulnerable population.

  • And the more people have it, the more dangerous for the vulnerable population.

  • School child.

  • Why do you close the school school child gets it.

  • This this virus has very limited effect on Children to the best we know.

  • But the child goes home and kisses his grandmother.

  • The grandmother had an underlying illness.

  • Now we have a problem.

  • That's all this is about.

  • So you calibrate your response to the fax.

  • We have a major problem in New Rochelle.

  • We are going to be closing schools for weeks.

  • We will take action on gatherings in that area.

  • Yes, beyond that at this time, No, we find another cluster will act according just from from just going through nursing homes.

  • It's more So I think this is why we're speaking with the nursing homes and about limiting the number of people there s so that we don't end up with a problem that you mentioned.

  • Uh, it's goes back to the basic public health messages to make sure that people recognize that they should wash their hands.

  • These interests leave, stay home.

  • If they're sick on, we're putting notices out in front of the nursing home.

  • Since ball both weigh, have recommended it to the nursing home leadership that that you shouldn't have many people gathering or coming into nursing homes.

  • I recognize people want to visit their relatives, but it's really important to make sure they're not sick when I'm walking in there.

  • People can be tested in New York be tested for Ronan Myers at this point each day.

  • So So we have We contest has multiple places that were working on testing.

  • You have several 100 just in the state that weaken d'oh and their.

  • Additionally, at the other hospitals that were working with to increase the volume on that will be increasing exponentially as the days go by.

  • I spoke to the vice president this morning.

  • Who's helping us bring on our private labs and bring on what's called automated testing, which has to be validated by the federal government.

  • Automated testing increases dramatically your testing capacity take north.

  • Well, labs, for example.

  • I was there yesterday.

  • They can manually do about 80 tests per day.

  • Automated taken, do 1000.

  • So I spoke with the vice president and CDC and FDA around to follow up with Dr Zucker to accelerate the private labs coming online and doing automated testing.

  • That will be a game changer.

  • People have been tested so far.

  • I'm sorry.

  • One sec.

  • The, uh on the previous question about nursing homes.

  • We've closed the New Rochelle nursing homes to visitors because you're the basic premise of the question is right.

  • Uh, a nursing home.

  • What do I worry about Nursing homes, senior care facilities, congregate senior set citizen complexes, senior Libyan homes and nursing home should just take some preemptive measures right now.

  • Preemptive measures?

  • Yes.

  • That's what Dr Zucker was speaking about.

  • Hyper cautious.

  • Yes, closing off all visitors.

  • No, we're only doing that in no New Rochelle.

  • A nursing home may make that decision, but it's a hard decision, right?

  • These are people who are in a nursing home, they looking to see visitors, they want to see their family.

  • But on the other hand, this is the vulnerable population.

  • And literally the image in my mind is Johnny.

  • Uh, nine year old Johnny goes and kisses his grandmother, and now there's an issue going public gatherings.

  • We right now have a forum for coming up on Easter as well.

  • No, sir.

  • Yeah, well, again.

  • Okay.

  • You gave this almost on a daily basis in Rochelle, in across their situation.

  • Then you do what you have to do.

  • Schools, gatherings, nursing homes.

  • Beyond that, we don't have any significant clusters beyond that.

  • So we'll calibrate to that time.

  • They're talking about what to do about gatherings A ll across the country now sports games, etcetera, concerts, both parks and again.

  • Well, we'll see what happens with the numbers and how quickly it moves.

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  • Do we know any Sunni students came home over the weekend There, split up between the three campuses.

  • The majority of them actually chose to do home quarantine.

  • And so that's where the majority of them are.

  • We could get you specific numbers per campus after this.

  • No politics today.

  • What else they actively doing too, Particularly in Westchester that people were actually saying Here, downstate people are are not there actually mandatory quarantine?

  • It is mandatory that the local health department have a person go to the home at a random interval at least once a day, at least once a day.

  • To confirm the person is in the home and to assess their well being.

  • If a person violates mandatory quarantine, there are significant sanctions.

  • But it so it is being monitored.

  • Checked.

  • They're in the law, their civil sanctions.

  • Wait.

  • We have mandated that the local health department monitor mandatory quarantine people If we had any reason to believe the local health department.

  • I didn't do it or couldn't do it.

  • I wouldn't do it.

  • We would do it ourselves.

  • But we haven't got Excuse me one second.

  • Okay, Take it easy.

  • Uh, we have no reason to believe that a local health department, isn't it?

  • Johns Hopkins, Governor.

  • They have a data dashboard.

  • And you gave out some numbers today.

  • The latest numbers.

  • When When did they go to Johns Hopkins?

  • After you announce them.

  • Or before you announce these Johns Hopkins?

  • Not international numbers.

  • I think so.

  • I'm just wondering what I don't know.

  • When Johns Hopkins got some butt off hunt, they have 111,000 cases were, like, 203rd or something.

  • Opportunity here for the state to create its own data dashboard with later.

  • So just say you got another 20 pieces later on this afternoon after your announcement, would you wait until the next day?

  • Unless it's I don't do it overnight.

  • But if it's otherwise, I come out and I give you the numbers when I get there with quarantine for people who might not have a home.

  • I don't know that we have dealt with that situation while we put some people up in hotels, congregate facilities just on the New Rochelle School.

  • Just so we're clear, uh, C D.

  • C.

  • Is going to provide guidance.

  • They have been advising Dr Zucker, and they are advising a number of weeks to keep the New Rochelle schools closed.

  • How many weeks?

  • We don't know yet.

  • But a number of weeks that we know.

  • Yes, yes.

  • So they'll continue to be closed for a number of actually governing the public school.

  • They're not closed.

  • Currently, the public schools are not, are not currently.

  • But what CDC was saying to Dr Zucker is that they're considering advising that they close all of the schools because it's a cluster hot spot for a number of weeks.

  • You want let doctors air speed schools need to be closed.

  • As of right now, it is the modern Orthodox schools because it's community spread and because that is a concern, saying that just a handful of schools, the schools that we have have closed right now the only place where this is gonna be a problem, it's not the answer.

  • So you need to look it as a community and there are other public schools in that community.

  • So we will be speaking with them as well To keep all of the school's closed.

  • The public schools which are not currently closed.

  • They were closed to keep to keep the spread from going in.

  • That way, we're gonna work on that.

  • Today was well, And if you are, you know, moderate communities focus here.

  • Some kids I'm sure go to achieve is elsewhere.

  • One girl course went to achieve in Bronx.

  • So are just shells or more Scarsdale system closed at school down the other day.

  • So they discuss the school system.

  • So it's more than just one school, obviously on.

  • And I recognize what you're saying that that they may move around to different areas.

  • But the thing is to address the hot spot area and those particular schools there, and then we will work.

  • This is where part of the investigation has to be done to look and see where some of the other kids go and to identify them.

  • If there is someone positive in one of the other schools, we will address that accordingly.

  • I think scars they'll close their schools down.

  • Last night, State is considering closing New Rochelle schools for a period of weeks on the recommendation of with CDC.

  • Correct that the CDC is is a CZ.

  • We spoke with the CDC and an effort to try to control the spread of disease.

  • Look at the hot spots and identify them and close to schools in that area.

  • What you see, Yes, We're working on today for revenue in tax due to the Corona Viruses impact on the stock market.

  • We'll see what it is, and we'll deal with it.

  • Well, I won't do that.

  • I wonder.

  • I would like to get it done quickly.

  • We put forth a paid sick leave Bill.

  • Uh, paid sick leave.

  • Bill did not cover the period of quarantine.

  • When we did the bill, it was the initial concept of the bill was before, before all of this.

  • So you now have 26 situations basically paid sick leave in general, which was a good idea before.

  • If a person is sick, don't come to the office.

  • You don't want them to come to the office, but then paid sick leave.

  • And now you have the specific of the quarantine period on the people on our on quarantine now and we're saying to people now you should stay home.

  • That quarantine period should be covered.

  • Two, that's what you know, that's gonna be in the specific of the bill neck, but I want to get that quarantine period addressed because there was only gonna beam or people These numbers are going to continue to go one direction, and that is they're going to continue to increase.

  • The quarantines will continue to increase.

  • The number of people will continue to increase.

  • I said the first day you're going to see these numbers go up exponentially every day because it is mathematics.

  • They must go up.

  • We're testing.

  • The more we test the morning, the numbers will go up.

  • And by the way, nobody know has a baseline.

  • I would wager that if you did a random sample of the population, the number of people who have had Corona virus is much higher than anyone has ever seen on any test.

  • Uh, we just happened to start testing at a particular point in time, I guess is it was here before, and it's bigger.

  • Well, we're trying to do is reduce the spread, so find the positive, isolated reduce the spread.

  • But I have no doubt that the numbers are going to continue to increase.

  • And that's why So what's the bottom line on the situation, right?

  • That's what people want to know.

  • What's the bottom line?

  • The bottom line is the Johns Hopkins Day data.

  • 111,000 cases, 3000 mortalities, Yes, said and tragic.

  • But, uh, people die and people die of diseases and people die of the flu.

  • But this is not Ebola.

  • This is not SARS.

  • This is not some science fiction movie come to life.

  • Uh, you know, the hysteria here is way out of line with the actuality in the facts, but four a vulnerable population member, senior citizen underlying young This Be careful.

  • Be careful the way you would be careful with the flu.

  • That's it.

  • Those are the facts.

  • Those a just the facts and the facts are comforting once you see them and once you understand them.

  • And that's why I used the numbers.

  • Johns Hopkins.

  • They're not political.

  • They're not Democrats and Republicans and the numbers of the numbers that's tracking the entire universe 111,000 cases.

  • What's there to worry about?

  • To make sure the hospital that day care facilities that something that you talked about here, especially in home Dave.

  • Facilities that really are checked in.

  • Yeah, but, you know, on the doctor could speak this better than I can.

  • You're not seeing large numbers in young people, so yes, yes, but ah, they themselves are not not infected.

  • Affected by it.

  • I have not been.

  • It might not have symptoms.

  • That's a good idea.

  • Someone, since you are my sister at one point, that might be a good idea.

  • The I don't think I have not personally really been in contact with people in Westchester.

  • I could have been in contact with Rick Cotton.

  • Yeah, I don't think Look, everybody could be tested, right?

  • The truth is, we don't have the testing capacity.

  • We have that protocol on the testing because we can't test people on that kind of women.

  • You know, uh, you just don't have the numbers even when we get up to scale, You know, you're talking about at best, being able to test several 1000.

  • So you want to prioritize who you test because you're looking for the positive?

  • I am not a probable positive.

  • We're looking for the probable positives.

  • We're not looking for a random sample.

  • We're looking to test the probable positives to stop them and isolate them.

  • Make sure they're in the hospital.

  • I'm an improbable positive.

  • What's the state doing to make sure that they're in a hospital?

  • Beds for Corona virus patients, particularly vulnerable ones?

  • If it gets to that point, we do senses.

  • We take a census of the available hospital beds, and that is not an issue at this time.

  • Manhattan has closed its doors Today, two people in federal court in Manhattan has closed its doors.

  • Today, two people that have visited those five main countries with the outbreak over the last two weeks is the state considering any similar action with state boards.

  • Not at this time do you mentioned it's now policy and one student at a public school that's positive for 19 or virus school is closed for at least one day.

  • Yes, and can you just toppled Leo?

  • Age and S e d are goingto issue a joint regulation today, saying if a child tests positive in a school, that school is closed for 24 hours to assess the facts and circumstances of that school and determine what should be done.

  • Going forward is that actor That's school for parents who might be thinking, What is the threshold for a closure?

  • I know Columbia University.

  • One case.

  • Everything's closed, I think.

  • Other universities Private Taking this.

  • What?

  • What for public school parents should they know is gonna be the threshold here.

  • A student test positive and a school is the threshold.

  • Yeah, but then just 24 we know days minimum 24 to assess, and then they'll be a determination.

  • You must be right, Right.

  • So exactly what you bring up is that if you quote, you have a positive case.

  • You want someone to go in there and clean the environment at the same time, the department working with S e.

  • D.

  • Will try to investigate, to figure out where did that child get on deposit may just be obviously in the community, But let's try to get a little bit more information.

  • And that's the purpose just to clarify.

  • I said this had a floor of Okay, that was a joke.

  • I don't know that it necessarily has a floral bouquet.

  • I did detect a hint of Citrus.

  • However, but you'll be your own judge.

  • Thank you very much, thank you guys on the telephone today, and we've been watching Governor Cuomo brief the public on the latest Corona virus numbers in New York state, 142 people have now tested positive for the virus.

  • Eight are hospitalized.

  • Westchester has the most cases.

  • At 98 Governor Cuomo listed New Rochelle as a significant hot spot, and as a result, he said, they are working on closing schools in that area for up to several weeks.

  • Nursing homes in that area have also been closed to visitors.

  • And for those under quarantine, the governor said, he has put forward a paid sick leave bill.

  • Officials also confirmed at this press conference, Rick Cotton, the executive director of the Port Authority, whose job includes overseeing airports in our area, has tested positive for the virus and is now under quarantine.

  • On Saturday, Cuomo declared a state of emergency in order to expedite testing equipment as well a supplies.

  • And in the meantime, Governor Cuomo announced a New York state made hand sanitizer that he says will be handed out to governmental agencies, schools, prisons as well as other facilities, The governor said he will continue to crack down on price gouging.

  • Now, we will have much more on this story here on CBS and New York.

  • Right now we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back right here.

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