Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned that “we’re not out of the woods” when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic in New York.
“My gut says the weather is going to warm, people are bored, people want this over. They see the numbers going down. They can take false comfort,” Cuomo said at his daily coronavirus news briefing.
“We never said it was over. We said the numbers are going down,” he added. “Roughly a thousand new people a day walk into the hospitals.”
Cuomo said the reason numbers in the state are generally trending down is because New Yorkers followed social distancing and other measures.
“You go back to the old behaviour and that number goes right back up,” Cuomo said.
The sight of New Yorkers refusing to wear masks despite the coronavirus pandemic infecting hundreds daily is “disrespectful,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday.
“We almost overwhelmed the whole health care system. So cautious moving forward and, look, how people cannot wear masks, that, to me, is even disrespectful. It’s disrespectful. It’s disrespectful to the nurses, the doctors, the people who have been front line workers, the transit workers. You wear the mask not for yourself. You wear the mask for me. It’s a sign of respect to other people. You make me sick. That’s disrespectful,” Cuomo said during a news conference attended by other state leaders around the northeast.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a new regional partnership with seven northeast states to form a purchasing consortium to obtain medical equipment and supplies.
The consortium will purchase $5 billion of equipment and supplies that will include personal protective equipment, tests and ventilators, Cuomo said.
This new partnership will make the states more competitive in the international marketplace, save taxpayer money and help the region acquire medical equipment, Cuomo added.
The governor added that the consortium will coordinate with the federal government.
The seven states in the consortium are New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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