Are they wearing masks? Are they getting vaccines? So you see across the state, you go from a low of 0.5% to a high of 2.7% up in the Finger Lakes. You tell me what a person does, how they act, you tell me how a community acts, I’ll tell you the COVID positivity rate. And it is a function of community behavior. Because COVID positivity is a function of individual behavior, period. I’ve been giving the same message, same numbers, same health commissioner, same policies. The COVID positivity rate varies across the state. You look across the state, and this has always been interesting to me, and it’s been true from day one. But the number of deaths is the lowest since October 30th. 11 families are grieving today because they lost loved ones, so keep that in mind. It’s a thing of the past,” 11 people passed away. So anyone who says, “Well, COVID is over. State-wide deaths, which is the most important number on the chart and the one that breaks my heart every day, 11 New Yorkers passed away. Hospitalizations are down, ICU is down, intubations are down. What are we going to do? What are we going to make it?Īs far as today is concerned the numbers on COVID are all good.
Yeah, but what does that look like? What does that mean? What did we learn from COVID? What are we going to be like going forward? And after all this devastation, we have now tremendous investment that we’re going to be making in the place that we build tomorrow. We’re reopening the world, reopening economies.
This is happening all across this country. This post-COVID reality is going to be shaped and formed by what we do. There’s probably no other point in my memory where the future of this state was so dependent on the decisions and the actions that we take today. We’re going to talk about today and tomorrow, because what we do today really is going to define what tomorrow is all about. Howard Zucker, who has been extraordinary in his guidance to the state of New York all through this COVID pandemic.Īs I said, it’s my pleasure to be here today, and we have a lot of good news. To my left, Jane Rosenthal, who is the cofounder of Tribeca Productions, and to her left, Dr. Robert Mujica, who’s the director of the state budget. To his right, we have Karen Hempel, who is the interim CEO for New York Road Runners. James Dolan, executive chairman and CEO of Madison Square Garden Entertainment. Let me introduce the people who are with me to my right, Mr. Dolan just informed me that I don’t have the appropriate union membership to perform, so I’m not going to sing, but I am gravely disappointed. I was rehearsing for days, I was all prepared. I was going to start today offering my rendition and singing my own composition of New York State of Mind. How magnificent is this venue? Let’s give the Radio City Music Hall a round of applause. What a pleasure to be here today at Radio City Music Hall. Andrew Cuomo (D) held a briefing in Albany on the states ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic.Good morning. When asked if he would resign, the governor said, “I’m not going to resign.
Governor Cuomo said that “I fully support a women’s right to come forward, and I think it should be encouraged in every way,” and that he “never touched anyone inappropriately.” He apologized for the hurt he caused and asked that people wait for the facts from the state attorney general’s investigation before forming an opinion.
After providing updated COVID-19 numbers, announcing that the rate of infection had gone down in the state, the governor addressed the recent allegations of harassment and inappropriate behavior made against him. Andrew Cuomo (D) held a briefing in Albany on the states ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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