So people have to have a realistic basis to act upon rather than listening to the hype that if you turn on cable TV, that deal here we have now been testing around the clock because, you know, um, we are aggressively testing following up leads because we want to find this many people who test positive so we can get them out of circulation.

We have 21 new cases that we found.

So a total of 76 in the state of New York.

Right now we have 11 in New York City, 57 in Westchester County, two in Rockland County, Foreign National County and two in Saratoga County, too in Saratoga County are obviously knew.

The additional numbers are seven additional in New York City from yesterday on 23 additional in Westchester.

The 23 cases in Westchester are all related to the New Rochelle situation.

Seven in New York City to people got over Cruise ship five appear to be community spread of one of those people is in a hospital in the rock cores in Saratoga.

The 21 is a 57 year old pharmacist, wonders the 52 year old woman who was in contact with a positive person from Pennsylvania at a conference in Miami.

Ah, so as I said that 76.

And that brings the total for Westchester to 57 cases.

Westchester is an obvious problem for us.

They talk about the continue gin in clusters, and then the clusters tend to, uh, in fact, more and more people.

So obviously you want to pay special attention to those situations.

I spoke with the county executive of Westchester County, George Latimer, the mayor of New Rochelle, known Branson Congresswoman Nita Lowy.

I spoke with Senator Leader Andrea Stewart, Cousins about this on the respective health commissioners.

We already said that we would close the essay, our school and the Westchester Day School and the West.

Just a Torah essay.

Our school.

They were supposed to close until March 14th.

With this new information, we may need to reset that quarantine period.

We're checking out to see if one of the new cases was in proximity with people, uh, later than the initial setting of the quarantine.

Quarantine is 14 days from the last possible exposure, right?

So with these new cases, is there a possibility that there was an additional later exposure.

And that's what we're checking now.

So this possibility of those quarantine period's may be extended.

We're also going to instruct that nursing home, senior living and situations in that immediate area of New Rochelle will suspend outside visitors again.

The nursing homes are the most problematic setting for us with this disease.

So we're hyper cautious about nursing homes, assisted living facility, senior housing, et cetera, and where now doing a census of those types of facilities in this immediate New Rochelle area to put that position in place.

No outside visitors.

Ah, voluntary quarantine.

There's been some reports that people who are involuntary quarantine or not following the voluntary quarantine when we say you are on precautionary quarantine, that is a serious situation.

We are assuming that you will act in good faith and that you will be following the rules of voluntary quarantine.

Uh, people who are on voluntary quarantine are issued specific rules.

Violating those rules is first, I think, disrespectful to members of the community.

It doesn't honor your responsibility as a citizen, and you could be putting people in danger.

So even though it's called precautionary quarantine.

That is a serious situation.

We expect you to comply with it if you do not comply with it.

And we know that people are not complying with voluntary quarantine.

There are other measures that we could take s so please respect the voluntary quarantine order.

Also, price gouging continues to be a problem.

Uh, I was the former attorney General.

I brought these cases.

I want businesses to be aware that you could lose your license for price gouging.

This is serious.

It's not just price gouging is price gouging in an emergency situation where you were being exploitive of the public and their specific legal provisions for price cap gouging in an emergency situation, I went through this during Superstorm Sandy.

We have a customer hotline number at 1 806 97 12 20.

We have reports of stores selling hand sanitizer for $80 a bottle.

Ah, it is not worth it to the store.

You can lose your license.

And we are very serious about this.

For the few dollars that you're going to make during this situation.

It's not worth your while.

The State Police is doing an investigation.

They will be thorough.

I've asked local police departments to also do investigations.

Eso please.

Uh, not only again is it disrespectful?

It's also illegal.

And you will be caught a SZ faras the this fearmongering with selling of masks on e bay, Facebook, et cetera.

Uh, we're also investigating those.

I did cases his attorney general where those were tracked back the stolen property.

I think eBay and Facebook should play a more constructive role here.

Let them police their own sites.

I understand freedom over the Internet, Freedom of the Internet.

Yeah, but it's not supposed to be selling stole stolen products.

And I think eBay and Facebook are basically on notice that when you see these masks, the's a medical mess masks.

Where did they come from?

You know, the person did not manufacture these in his or her basement.

They had to come from somewhere.

So I would ask eBay in Facebook without getting into a whole philosophical argument about freedom of the Internet.

Just act is good.

Corporate citizens and police, uh, your own websites and what you're offering people.

Ah, a couple of other points on the federal aid.

I spoke to Congresswoman Nita Lowy today As I said yesterday, I don't believe the supplemental appropriation bill provided enough funding for New York New York.

I've been total $35 million.

We had already appropriated $40 million.

We're probably spending at the rate of about of rough estimate, $30 million per week right now.

That's without taking into consideration capital costs for purchasing of equipment, potential testing costs, reimbursement the local health organizations.

So I told the Congress woman just that $35 million is nowhere near sufficient.

The Congresswoman also knows my general feeling that New York has been getting the short end of the stick from this federal government from day one right across the board.

They started with the salt income tax.

They won't approve the Second Avenue subway next phase.

They won't approve congestion pricing.

They won't approve the AirTrain from LaGuardia Airport.

They won't approve the gateway tunnels coming from New Jersey.

So, uh, and then they took this gratuitous action of ending a global Troll Traveller program toe extort and exploit us into actually providing access to the D M V database because they want the undocumented drivers.

So these were all gratuitous acts on at one point.

Enough is enough.

Congresswoman Lowy has been phenomenal.

I've known her for many years.

She worked with my father actually before.

She's a great advocate for New York.

She got us the funding for the Tappan Zee Bridge.

So she is.

She's very effective as a legislator, and I went through the situation with her and she said, This is just a starting point and she will work deliberately to make our case to the federal government.

And if she gets a chance in subsequent legislation, O.

R.

A subsequent opportunity to amend this legislation that she would take that into consideration.

Our relationship with the C.

D.

C.

Is also, uh, problematic on an ongoing basis.

We have the capacity to perform tests.

We have a sophisticated state lab.

We have sophisticated laboratories in our state.

We are not reliant on CGC for doing the testing.

C.

D.

C.

Is a bottleneck for this nation.

In doing the testing, you go to see D.

C.

The tests have to go back to Atlanta.

They have to do the tests.

They have to send it back.

I believe the CD slee CDC was caught flat footed.

I believe they're slow in their response, and I believe they're slowing down the state.

We needed CDC approval for a lot of these things.

So first we could only use the C.

D.

C.

We could only send test to the CDC.

We then implored them to allow the state to do its own testing.

Finally, they allowed the state to do his own testing.

Uh, it became clear that we needed more capacity than just the state tests performed at a state laboratory.

So we have to allow us to contract without commercial laboratories that it took a long time to get that approval.

We now have the approval for the outside laboratory contracting.

The next hurdle is something called Order Mated testing, which is done by robotics.

And it's much faster.

So the labs that we are now going to contract with and we have several approved North Well Health, which has a tremendous laboratory facility in testing capacity, NewYork Presbyterian Memorial Sloan Kettering University of Rochester Medical Center, Roswell Park and SUNY Upstate Medical University.

We will be contracting with them to do testing.

Uh, many of them have automated testing available, but right now, C.

D.

C does not allow the automata test.

So my position was C.

D.

C.

Is what?

It's one thing that you don't do anything to help us, but at least don't handcuff us.

And that's where we are right now.

So, uh, the next hurdle to jump with C.

D.

C.

Is to get them to allow us to do automated testing.

If we get these labs on board, we get automatic automated testing.

We increase our testing capacity exponentially on.

That is critical.

So what we are talking about at this particular time in this evolving situation, I have officially declared done a declaration of emergency which gives us certain powers were going to be doing purchasing and up hiring more staff, especially to help local housing authorities.

That local health departments that a very stressed you know, we've said to the local health departments, You have to do the monitoring on the quarantine.

Mandatory quarantine.

Somebody go knock on the door once a day at random intervals have to make sure the person is there.

Even on the voluntary quarantine.

We want Elektronik checks and checking in.

So this is labor intensive s o.

But we need the staffing we need the purchasing under the Declaration of Emergency.

We have a more expedited purchasing and testing protocol, and we're going to be doing that.

Last point is always the most important point.

What are we doing?

We're testing aggressively, especially along suspected populations, by following the infection tree because we want to identify people because we want to put them in a position where they're not going to infect anybody else.

We want to find positives.

Uh, we're sending mixed messages every time we do these numbers because people say, Oh, no more people have it.

We say That's good news that we know who the people are.

So now we can put them in isolated situation and they won't continue to infect people.

That is the point of the exercise, my friends, is to find these people.

So we're doing more tests, more tests.

The better the more positives you find, the better.

Because then you can isolate them and you slow this bread.

That's been the focus.

The real question, if you just living your life.

Okay, so what happens if I get Corona virus?

That's the question.

So what happens if I get the Corona virus If you get the Corona virus, 80% of the people will walk around and self resolve 20% will be hospitalized.

The vulnerable population, senior citizens immune compromised underlying illness.

We've said that from day one A.

Ll.

The data backs that up even take our situation.

76 cases in New York, 10 people are hospitalized off the 76 10 people hospitalized.

Of the 76 that's about 15% which is in line with what we said.

About 20% will be sick and may require hospitalization.

So that is actually what we're seeing.

And there's another piece of data from John Hopkins, which is so informative John Hopkins has been doing just a tracking right, because the real question is what has happened to the people who have gotten the Corona virus has been going on for weeks.

Now.

What's happened to the people who have gotten the Corona virus?

John Hopkins is tracking just that.

This is what they found.

102,000 cases so far worldwide.

John Hopkins is working with World Health Organization, et cetera.

102,000 cases mortality rate.

3400 cases.

57,000 recovering 41,006 over the past two and 1/2 weeks.

Listen to this.

More people are recovering than are getting infected.

Okay, so it's exactly what we said.

No, the facts be calm.

If you get the Corona virus, 80% walk around.

Self resolved, 20% get ill.

May be hospitalized.

Senior citizens.

We have to be very careful of.

That's why I am hyper course hyper cautious, nursing home, senior congregate facilities immune, compromised.

And of the 100,000 people who have gone through this, that's what the numbers show.