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| Coronavirus US live: Cuomo wants to reimagine, not just reopen New York | Coronavirus US live: Cuomo wants to reimagine, not just reopen New York |
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| Governor Governor outlines his vision for reopening state in two phases as state sees 16,966 deaths from Covid-19 | Governor Governor outlines his vision for reopening state in two phases as state sees 16,966 deaths from Covid-19 |
| Cuomo says he is in favor of bringing sports back in some form provided it can generate revenue without ticket sales. “We want to bring sports back, so there’s an activity that people can watch on TV,” he says. “What sports can you do without an audience? What sports can you make work economically where you don’t have to sell a seat in the stadium or in the arena?” | |
| He adds: “They have to be creative and they have to think about it.” | |
| When pressed on this, Cuomo says he’s spoken with a number of sports owners and companies and encouraged them to “think outside the box, because there is no box”. | |
| “If you could make the economics work without the seat sales and you could have teams play without the seat sales but you had televised and you had the television revenue and whatever else went with that?” he says. “You know we’re in a different place. Be creative and try to figure it out. But if players could get paid more than staying home and owners will get some revenue versus total shutdown, why not? I’d love to watch.” | |
| He continues: “It would have to be up to them, that they an economic analysis that says some revenue is better than no revenue and my players are willing to negotiate a contract reduction. And if they can do it? Everybody has to think outside the box, because there is no box.” | |
| Cuomo says he wants to reimagine rather than just reopen the state. | Cuomo says he wants to reimagine rather than just reopen the state. |
| “I don’t want to just reopen,” Cuomo says. “We learned a lot of lessons here. Painfully, but we learned a lot of lessons. And that’s what reimagine means to me. How do we take the lessons we learned, take this pause in life and say, ‘When we reopen we’re going to be better for it, and we’re going to reimagine what our life is, and we’re going to improve for this pause.’ Even on an individual level. You had time to decompress a little bit. I think everybody when through a period where they analyzed their life and when somebody all of sudden pulls the rug out from under you and you wind up in a different place, you just see life differently. And I think that’s true for most people. | “I don’t want to just reopen,” Cuomo says. “We learned a lot of lessons here. Painfully, but we learned a lot of lessons. And that’s what reimagine means to me. How do we take the lessons we learned, take this pause in life and say, ‘When we reopen we’re going to be better for it, and we’re going to reimagine what our life is, and we’re going to improve for this pause.’ Even on an individual level. You had time to decompress a little bit. I think everybody when through a period where they analyzed their life and when somebody all of sudden pulls the rug out from under you and you wind up in a different place, you just see life differently. And I think that’s true for most people. |
| “After that reflection ... what have we learned, how do we improve and how do we build back better? Because it’s not about return to yesterday. There is no return to yesterday in life. It’s about moving forward. It’s about taking your experience and what you learned and bringing it to a positive effect.” | “After that reflection ... what have we learned, how do we improve and how do we build back better? Because it’s not about return to yesterday. There is no return to yesterday in life. It’s about moving forward. It’s about taking your experience and what you learned and bringing it to a positive effect.” |
| Cuomo begins to outline his vision for reopening the state. Phase one will focus on “low-risk” construction and manufacturing, while phase two will be more essential businesses that are considered low risk. He says businesses must present a plan to demonstrate how they can reopen safely: “We need them to be creative and think outside the box,” he says. | Cuomo begins to outline his vision for reopening the state. Phase one will focus on “low-risk” construction and manufacturing, while phase two will be more essential businesses that are considered low risk. He says businesses must present a plan to demonstrate how they can reopen safely: “We need them to be creative and think outside the box,” he says. |
| There will be two weeks between phases to carefully monitor the effects. | There will be two weeks between phases to carefully monitor the effects. |
| Cuomo adds a major caveat: “You can’t do anything in any region that would increase the number of visitors to that region. You have a whole multi-state region in lockdown here. It’s possible that you open something in Syracuse or you open something in the North Country where you now see license plates coming in from Connecticut, New Jersey, people from downstate, all coming to that area because they’ve been locked down and they’re looking for an activity.” | Cuomo adds a major caveat: “You can’t do anything in any region that would increase the number of visitors to that region. You have a whole multi-state region in lockdown here. It’s possible that you open something in Syracuse or you open something in the North Country where you now see license plates coming in from Connecticut, New Jersey, people from downstate, all coming to that area because they’ve been locked down and they’re looking for an activity.” |
| New York governor Andrew Cuomo starts with “relatively good” news: total hospitalizations in New York are down to levels seen on 31 March, nearly a month ago. | New York governor Andrew Cuomo starts with “relatively good” news: total hospitalizations in New York are down to levels seen on 31 March, nearly a month ago. |
| There have been 367 deaths statewide in the last day, down from 437 in the previous 24-hour period, Cuomo says. | There have been 367 deaths statewide in the last day, down from 437 in the previous 24-hour period, Cuomo says. |
| The governor says there have been 16,966 deaths from Covid-19 in New York state overall – a figure that does not include the roughly 5,000 probable deaths in New York state. | The governor says there have been 16,966 deaths from Covid-19 in New York state overall – a figure that does not include the roughly 5,000 probable deaths in New York state. |
| Cuomo says he agrees with the CDC’s guidance that hospitalization rate must be in decline for 14 days before considering reopening. | Cuomo says he agrees with the CDC’s guidance that hospitalization rate must be in decline for 14 days before considering reopening. |
| Dr Birx also appeared on NBC’s Meet The Press this morning and continued her stance of declining to criticize the president for his dangerous remarks on the use of disinfectant to combat Covid-19 inside the human body. | Dr Birx also appeared on NBC’s Meet The Press this morning and continued her stance of declining to criticize the president for his dangerous remarks on the use of disinfectant to combat Covid-19 inside the human body. |
| Asked if the president’s remarks undermined the credibility of the administration’s scientific response to the pandemic, Birx replied: | Asked if the president’s remarks undermined the credibility of the administration’s scientific response to the pandemic, Birx replied: |
| Over the weekend Politico published details of a 57 page Republican party attack memo, which advised GOP candidates to aggressively target China in their public remarks on the coronavirus pandemic. | Over the weekend Politico published details of a 57 page Republican party attack memo, which advised GOP candidates to aggressively target China in their public remarks on the coronavirus pandemic. |
| From the report: | From the report: |
| The reporting adds to the increasingly clear picture that Republicans will target China throughout election season. A pro-Trump super Pac has already released advertising attacking Joe Biden for his comments on Trump’s decision to ban some travel from the country at the start of the outbreak. | The reporting adds to the increasingly clear picture that Republicans will target China throughout election season. A pro-Trump super Pac has already released advertising attacking Joe Biden for his comments on Trump’s decision to ban some travel from the country at the start of the outbreak. |
| More from the report: | More from the report: |
| Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic from the US. | Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic from the US. |
| We’ll start with comments just made by Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr Deborah Birx, who appeared on CNN this morning. | We’ll start with comments just made by Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr Deborah Birx, who appeared on CNN this morning. |
| Dr Birx declined to criticize the president for dangerous comments he made earlier in the week floating the idea of using sunlight and the injection of disinfectant to the human body to treat Covid-19. Asked if she was bothered by the need to keep ruling out the use of disinfectant, which can be fatal if ingested, Birx said: “It bothers me that this is still in the news cycle. I worry that we don’t get the information to the American people that they need when we continue to bring up something that was from Thursday night.” | Dr Birx declined to criticize the president for dangerous comments he made earlier in the week floating the idea of using sunlight and the injection of disinfectant to the human body to treat Covid-19. Asked if she was bothered by the need to keep ruling out the use of disinfectant, which can be fatal if ingested, Birx said: “It bothers me that this is still in the news cycle. I worry that we don’t get the information to the American people that they need when we continue to bring up something that was from Thursday night.” |
| Earlier in the interview Birx made clear she had told the President that such treatments were not medically viable, but described Trump’s remarks made during a globally televised press conference, as “a dialogue” between the president and scientists at the department of homeland security about a new study. | Earlier in the interview Birx made clear she had told the President that such treatments were not medically viable, but described Trump’s remarks made during a globally televised press conference, as “a dialogue” between the president and scientists at the department of homeland security about a new study. |
| You can see the full exchange here: | You can see the full exchange here: |
| And here’s the CDC’s full guidance on the consequences of consumption of disinfectant. | And here’s the CDC’s full guidance on the consequences of consumption of disinfectant. |