Name: New York Governor Cuomo provides update on coronavirus pandemic
Uploaded: 2020-03-17T01:13:11.000Z
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a tremendous amount of testing and investigation.

They were so aggressive on testing that they actually identified the people who tested positive, isolated them, and then ran down the track of who those people may have contacted.

This country, we've done 5000 tests to date, according to the Secretary of Health and Human Service is so our testing capacity is nowhere near what it needs to bay.

Why you saw China November, December last year.

Why did it set take so long for this country to get a testing protocol done?

So New York State is going to take matters into its own hand.

We're going to start contracting with private labs in the state to increase our testing capacity.

Remember again the chronology we started several weeks ago?

CDC said they would do all the tests and they would send them to Atlanta.

They allowed the state laboratory to do testing.

We have great labs in the state Why the federal government wouldn't avail itself off the labs, why they wouldn't have had protocols and tests ready.

So we are going to contract directly with private labs in this state.

The Department of Health routinely works with about 28 labs, which are expert in this kind of testing and virology and where the Department of Health has a pre existing relationship with these labs, where they're confident of the lab's work product, et cetera.

We informed them that they should get up, get running and start moving forward with testing.

There's still some complexity that the FDA needs to sign off on the actual protocols of some of these tests, and that is still complicating the situation.

But this will greatly increase our testing capacity as we get these 28 labs up and running.

We had them on the telephone today, had the communication today and we're starting the mobilization of those 28 labs, but that'll make a big difference.

But frankly, we're not in a position where we can rely on the CDC or the FDA to manage this testing protocol.

So we'll be moving forward with that second track reduced density.

Because if somebody has infected, you don't want them to infect more people.

You know you have an intense cluster stop large gatherings where you have a large cluster of people who are infected called common sense on.

That's what we announced with New Rochelle.

We're also announcing that CUNY and Sunni, starting March 19th will move to a distance learning model, and both systems will be doing that.

CUNY will help reduce the density in New York City.

Sunni will help reduce the density in downstate New York.

Downstate is where we have the highest density of cases now.

So SUNY and CUNY closing March 19 thereabouts.

There some different campuses that maybe some variability, but that will be a way to reduce density, and that is a good thing I've also spoken today with hundreds of business leaders, primarily in New York City.

I've asked them voluntarily to help reduce the density.

There are a number of ways they can do this.

The other team works the other week but again, ways to reduce density in the city.

Telecommuting, Working from home, all the experts say social distancing.

You should be more than six feet from someone.

Try walking down a New York City sidewalk on be six feet from people.

We're also gonna be making a decision on the ST Patrick's Day parade will make that decision later on.

I want to speak with a few more people, but I've been speaking with health experts Dr Fauci, who I believe is one of the best in the nation, who I've spoken to a number of times, he testified today, and this is his strong recommendation, just reduced large gatherings.

Why would you risk bringing thousands of people together knowing that this is a virus that easily communicates.

Doctor found she was talking about sports events, et cetera.

But ST Patrick's Day is one of the great, uh, convening strike of a large number of people, so we'll be making that decision today.

But if you listen to the experts, they would say you should not be having a ST Patrick's Day convenient.

This time, which I believe makes sense, we said, If we're asking people to be quarantined, we are asking the Legislature to pass a bill that says people will be paid by their employer if they're on quarantine.

New York state will pay any person who is quarantined, who's an employee of New York state.

So if you're on mandatory quarantine or on what we call precautionary quarantine, you'll be paid.

Public transit, We've asked them statewide to double cleaning protocol.

There's conflicting information on how long the virus lives on a hard surface, plastic or stainless steel.

Some people say maybe a little longer than 24 hours.

We want to double the cleaning protocol just to make sure New Yorkers a confident there was a situation in White Plains where an attorney who practiced at was just a county courthouse in the White Plains courthouse tested positive.

Six courtrooms are closed for cleaning, and employees who had contact with that attorney will be on precautionary quarantine and anyone who needs a test, we will do the overall number of cases in Westchester.

That is probably the single most troubling point in the state right now.

This number, as I have said from day one, will continue to grow every day.

The more tests we get, the more positives we will get.

We don't have people who are random sampling the universe to find out what the infection rate ISS.

This is when we find the person who is positive asking them who they came in contact with and then testing that chain that's primarily where these tests come from, and we're looking for the positive.

So that is actually good news because it says where were successfully tracking the chain?

These numbers will continue to go up dramatically.

The more tests we do, the more these numbers will increase.

These numbers do not reflect anyone's belief off what percent of the population is infected.

Talking to everyone else having no medical experience whatsoever, is the Corona virus was in this country before people acknowledged, and that it is much more widespread than people acknowledge.

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