Just two days into the state of emergency, Governor Cuomo is holding another press conference to share the most recent information about the Cove in 19 outbreak in our area.

Let's listen in.

I have been lamenting about an issue for the past few days, but I've been lamenting about a number of issues for the past few days, one in particular that is egregious.

And I have raised it almost every press conference for the past week.

What is that issue that I have been raising as egregious for the past week?

CVC did A lot of testing is a good answer.

That's true, not the incident.

Looking for remaining calm Price?

Who said Price country Okay, price guarantee Most egregious price gouging.

On what?

Theft of medical supplies.

What else?

Hand sanitizer.

Okay, so now we are problem solvers.

State of New York, Empire State, Progressive capital of the nation.

Your problem's solved.

Your price gouging on Han hand sign sanitizer and ah, high demand for hand sanitizer.

What do you do?

Distilleries closed down.

Bourbon never.

Boy, what else do you do?

Make your own hand sanitizer.

Can you do that?

You should be governed.

Open the curtain, please.

We are introducing New York State clean hand sanitizer, made conveniently by the state of New York.

This is a superior product to products now on the market.

Uh, the the World Health Organization, CDC.

All those people suggest 60% alcohol content.

Purell competitors to New York State Clean, 70% alcohol.

This is 75% alcohol.

It also has a It comes in a variety of sizes.

It has a very nice floral bouquet.

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Yes, floral bouquet.

Making it in the state of New York.

Core craft actually is making it for the state core.

Craft makes glass cleaner floor cleaners, the greasers, laundry detergent, vehicle fluids, hand cleaner.

And now they make hand sanitizer with alcohol.

Uh, the we're Carmen capacity is 100,000 gallons per week, and we're going to be ramping up.

Will be providing this to governmental agencies, schools, the empty A prisons, et cetera.

Because you can't get it on the market.

And when you get it, it's very, very expensive.

S O that is now in production will start distributions.

We're going to distribute it to New Rochelle, which is a hot spot for us because literally, we're hearing from governments that they're having trouble getting it.

The also to pure Oh and Mr Amazon and Mystery Bay.

If you continue the price gouging, we will introduce our product, which is superior to your product, and you don't even have the floral bouquet.

So stop price gadget.

This is also much less expensive than anything.

Government.

Goodbye.

Just to give you an idea, a gallon bottle is $6.10.

The seven ounce bottle is a dollar 12 hour costs, and then there's a very small size.

Here it is, which is 84 cents.

So is much cheaper for us to make it ourselves, then to buy it on the open market.

And I want to thank Kelly Cummings, who got this going and core craft very much, uh, for their good work, and with that will turn out, turn it to a couple of other measures.

Uh, the C.

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Is been speaking with us on how to handle hot spots.

The CDC is going to be coming out with additional guidance soon, but New Rochelle is a significant hot spot.

Even if you look at the overall map of the United States s so we will be talking about school closings in that area.

We have closed the schools.

Now the question will be duration.

But we could be talking weeks.

Dr.

Zucker has a discussion with the CDC and the FDA later on about how long to keep those schools closed.

But I think at this point is fair to say we're talking about a number of weeks for all schools.

We're going to set a policy that if a student tests positive in a school, that school is closed for an initial 24 hour period so that we can do an assessment of the situation and the facts on then make a determination going forward, given the facts in that particular school district.

And the Department of Health is going to be doing a joint regulation with S E d.

Uh, on that paid sick leave, quarantine will be sending up a bill today.

As you know, I proposed paid sickly, which before any of this Corona virus even began.

But it's even more important now.

I think it's especially important that If government is ordering a quarantine, even a voluntary quarantine, that place is a personal hardship on a person.

That person should get paid.

And we're going to be sending up a bill to the Legislature.

Will speak to the legislative leaders about that today because we have a significant number of people now on quarantine.

And, uh, I don't want to add to the burden that we're creating.

And I think the business community, it's in their interest that people actually stay home and stop the spread S o.

I feel good about that law.

I just want to get it passed.

I'm gonna reiterate a point that we have made before the people at risk here, our senior citizens, people with a compromised immune system, people with an underlying youngest.

But they should take it seriously.

And for people in that category, they should adjust their interactions so called social distancing.

I had this conversation with my mother.

I said, Look, you know, you want to be careful.

This is not the time to be going to large gatherings, So use your discretion.

Use your intelligence.

It's not the time to be getting on a long plane flight you know, we the fear and hysteria is outpacing the reality of the situation.

But the reality of the situation is people in that target group should be careful, right?

So let's be realistic on the overall hysteria and hype that we're now living through.

But the reality is for that vulnerable population.

They should be taking precautions.

We have, uh, our Port Authority director, Rick Cotton, who has been doing a magnificent job handling the airports.

JFK is one of the main airports for people coming in on those overseas flights.

Uh, Rick Cotton does have has tested positive for the Corona virus, so he is going to be on quarantine.

He'll be working at home.

He's the executive director of the Port Authority, so he's been at the airports.

Obviously, when many people were coming back with the virus, he'll be working from home.

And now the senior team that works with Rick will also be tested.

So, uh, several of them may be on quarantine and they'll be working from home.

The testing will go through the latest numbers, but let's also remember the context we're testing if we can.

The more you test, the more positives you will find and you are testing primarily a suspect group because we're testing people who we believe came in contact with a positive person.

We want that data because we want to find out who's positive so we can isolate them and reduce the spread.

But it is not a random sample.

It is not statistically representative of any.

It's it's testing up articular universe that we believe may very well have been exposed to a positive person.

So it's not statistically.

I don't know what it means.

I take it as good news because I want to be finding the positive so we can isolate them and we can reduce the spread.

And that's what the testing is all about.

So we did additional testing.

We've been basically testing around the clock.

Now Westchester, you see, is up to 98.

New York City 19 Naso 17 Rockland four Saratoga to Suffolk one Ulster one.

Westchester is our problem.

As you see from the numbers that is a relatively small community in New Rochelle, 98 cases more than the city of New York on.

That makes the point about gatherings, and that's my conversation with my mother And that's the caution flag.

Uh, it's this.

Communicates transmits more easily than the flu.

And in Westchester, what happened was there were a number of large gatherings, several 100 people, and it transmitted through that congregation.

But this is the hot spot.

One of the hot spots nationally, by the way, is the New Rochelle hot spot.

So it makes the point about how it can communicate in gatherings on dhe.

Why people have to be careful.

But those of the recent numbers 142 with 142 cases it puts New York.

Huh?

Well puts New York, actually ahead of Washington.

Uh, they just updated these numbers.

California 111 Massachusetts A 28.

And you can see the other New York.

The other national cases context all these numbers.

What does it mean?

What does it mean?

What does that mean?

All day long?

People calling me up and saying here all these numbers.

What does it mean?

It means you find the positives, you reduce the spread.

What is the bottom line?

What does this mean?

People are reacting like this is the Ebola virus.

This is not the Ebola virus.

This hysteria that you see this fear that you see the panic that you see is unwarranted.

We have dealt with worse viruses.

This spreads like the flu.

Uh, but most people will have it, and they get on with their lives.

Many people have it and not know that they have it.

So we have 142 cases.

0 142 gazes.

What does that mean?

Onley Eight of the 142 are hospitalized.

Well, how can that be?

The others are at home like they have the flu.

Eight out of 1 42 Those are people who predominantly have an underlying illness.

Remember, this is basically pneumonia.

When is pneumonia dangerous?

When you have an underlying your illness not just this virus, uh, for decades.

When is pneumonia problematic?

When you have an underlying illness and that's what this is.

So eight out of 1 42 puts it in focus and puts it in perspective.

And this is the single most demonstrative fact.

Okay, all this hyperbole or these opinions?

What's the fact?

Johns Hopkins tracks every Corona virus case since it started What happened?

111,000 cases.

3800 deaths.

62,000 recovered, 45,000 pending.

Still recover.

God said, That's tracking every Corona virus case.

It's not good that 3800 people passed away.

That's true.

That is very true, by the way.

10 times that number will pass away from the flu this year.

Now people don't realize that they don't think about it.

But that's what the flu does on a seasonal basis.

So a little perspective.

We have to keep it all in perspective on with that, I'll end there and take your questions.

But I am a man of my word.

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I've been here.

I've been missing all this fun into keeping it perspective.

Do you have any thoughts to limiting large gatherings of the capital or possibly even postponing session for a couple of weeks?

There's an idea.

Post bone session.

Send the legislature home.

Yeah, you know you.

This is all about reducing the spread, reducing the number of people who get it.

Why?

Because you want to protect the vulnerable population.

That's all this is.

It comes back to my mother.

It comes back to the vulnerable population.

And the more people have it, the more dangerous for the vulnerable population.

School child.

Why do you close the school school child gets it.

This this virus has very limited effect on Children to the best we know.

But the child goes home and kisses his grandmother.

The grandmother had an underlying illness.

Now we have a problem.

That's all this is about.

So you calibrate your response to the fax.

We have a major problem in New Rochelle.

We are going to be closing schools for weeks.

We will take action on gatherings in that area.