Our great fear was the number of people infected would overwhelm the hospital capacity. We want to reopen, but we want to do it without infecting more people, or overwhelming the hospital system.

It is a factual discussion on reopening, right? So, let’s demystify it a little bit, because in this environment it’s becoming rhetorical rather than factual. It shouldn’t be because people are protesting, or some people want it, some people don’t want it. It shouldn’t be a philosophical discussion. Our children can’t sustain it.īut we have to, when we talk about reopening, this should not be a political discussion. The individual families can’t sustain it. You see this number is basically reducing, but not at it a tremendous rate, and the only thing tremendous is the number of New Yorkers who still pass away.Įveryone is talking about reopening. 335 people passed away yesterday from this virus, in this state. This is the worst news, every day, I think maybe today is the day the nightmare will be over, but it’s not. But, overall you see the numbers coming down, so that’s good news. After all of this, we still have 900 new infections yesterday, on a three day rolling average. It’s still a significant number of people, 900 hundred people. The number of COVID hospitalizations per day, these are new people who are newly diagnosed with COVID. The change in hospitalization on a rolling total you see is down. The total hospitalization rate is down a tick, which is good news. They want to know the facts without spin, without opinion, and that’s what we’ve been giving them. Facts are our friend, right? People want to make decisions. Let me talk to you about some of the facts that we’re dealing with today. So, it’s just been an extraordinary experience, but we’ve seen the good, the bad, and the ugly in all of this. They also sent a team down to New York City. But, I wanted to say thank you for all they’ve done here. I had a chance to say hello to the nurses and doctors who work here. We’re in Syracuse, the State University of New York, Upstate Medical School and Hospital. But, he’s an attorney, he’s a doctor who was at the Department of Financial Services, but who has worked with me in the state for many years, and he’s been a great talent here. To his right, Gareth Rhodes, he’s not a doctor either.

… with the doctors here, but he’s still technically a doctor, runs Empire College, he’s done all great policy work for the state for many years.

Governor cuomo press conference today