Cuomo outlines rules for partial reopening of some Upstate New York regions
Source: WBFO
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that some Upstate New York regions may be able to have a limited reopening of some businesses when the current shutdown order expires May 15, but it will come with many caveats.
The governor is setting a list of criteria for potential regional reopenings in the Rochester area, where he held his daily briefing, as well as the North Country, the Mohawk Valley, Central New York and the Southern Tier.
It is based on epidemiological science and aims for holding the transmission rate of COVID-19 to 1.1% or lower, so that the greater freedom of movement does not lead to the virus multiplying exponentially and overwhelming the health care system.
Cuomo said New York is trying to learn from other countries, like Italy and Singapore, where an initial reopening occurred too quickly and restarted the spread of the virus.
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totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)he wants to open some regions back up? I have been supporting him and he has done a good job so far. But this is a mistake I am afraid.
soryang
(3,299 posts)30 tests per 100,000? really? Even if that were a per day figure, it's too small.
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)Is that a typo?
Or am I understanding this wrong?
30 tests per 100,000?
Massacure
(7,522 posts)30 tests per 100,000 is equivalent to about 90,000 nationally. About 30,000 people per day are being infected in the United States, so being able to test 90,000 people per day seems reasonable.
bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)More employment report on Friday. Treasury to borrow $3 Trillion more for the second quarter. That's what's keeping the market from collapsing.
But, as an aside. These plunges in production, consumption, disruption from the pandemic .... the magnitude of these numbers remind me of only a few things in history. Now admittedly I haven't read them all but changes like this in modern times happened during World War I in Czarist Russia. Factories were empty, production stopped, people wanted change. Fortunately we have institutionalized methods of change - elections! GOTV