New york city is still having a hard time to include the coronavirus break out across the state with 2,000 new hospitalizations a day, even as public officials make plans to gradually resume parts of the economy for organisation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday.
Cuomo and other governors throughout the country are desperate to loosen limitations and resume services that were shuttered to assist curb the outbreak that’s currently killed more than 33,300 people in the U.S. given that emerging from Wuhan, China less than 4 months ago.
” The situation we have now is unsustainable. People can’t stay in their houses for this length of time, they can’t stay out of work. You can’t keep the economy closed permanently. You simply can’t,” Cuomo stated. “Society can’t handle it personally or economically. So now we’re moving into another stage, which is this reopening stage.”
On Thursday, Cuomo revealed that he was extending the state’s shutdown of unnecessary companies to May 15 as officials attempt to strike a fragile balance of getting people back to work without causing cases to increase once again.
Cuomo stated people have had a “nice break” however they are nervous to leave your home and get back to work without getting sick and passing away. “Death is bad and despite the fact that staying at the home and not getting an income is bad, it’s not as bad as death. That’s the yin and the yang here.”
While the hospitals in New york city aren’t as overwhelmed with coronavirus cases as originally anticipated, Cuomo said the state is far from claiming triumph.
The number of brand-new Covid-19 cases confessed to the health center “is still about 2,000 per day and that is still really high,” he said. “And if you observe it’s hovered about the exact same rate for a number of weeks. It peaked, but 2,000, that’s an extremely high number.”
Cuomo added that 630 people died on Thursday from the coronavirus, another everyday figure that “refuses to come down dramatically.” The number of deaths have actually been between 600 to 800 people per day for almost a week.
Greater testing will be the “next frontier” of the state’s battle versus the break out, but it doesn’t have a system that can handle the volume required to start reducing limitations. New York City has 301 laboratories and health centers that are certified to performed virology testing, but the obstacle will be coordinating each centers’ efforts to perform testing throughout the state, he said.
The Democratic governor called on the federal government to help the state get the products required to conduct greater screening. Cuomo said that even if the state’s labs are able to purchase the coronavirus tests, they’re still having a hard time to get all the chemical reagents required to perform them. He said the significant provider of the chemical reagents is China.
” The federal government can not clean their hands of this and say, ‘Oh, the states are accountable for screening,'” Cuomo stated. “We can refrain from doing it without federal assistance. I want to do what I can do and more, however I’m informing you I don’t do China relations, I do not do international supply chain.”
Cuomo announced that he prepares to sign an executive order directing all public and personal laboratories, which are certified by the state, in New york city to collaborate with the Department of Health to increase diagnostic screening.
” The system does not do large-scale Covid testing,” Cuomo stated. “This test in and of itself is complicated and pricey, and you don’t have the network that does that. It does not exist.”
Throughout the Cuomo’s interview, President Donald Trump tweeted that the federal government has “built you countless health center beds that you didn’t need or utilize, offered large numbers of Ventilators that you need to have had, and assisted you with testing that you should be doing.”
When asked about the president’s remarks, Cuomo stated he’s currently praised Trump for his previous help with hospital beds however does not require the “president of the United States to tell me that I’m governor.”
