Archive: NYS COVID-19 Resources & Information
4/22/20

In the rapidly changing dynamics of combating the Cornonavirus, information is updated constantly. This archive is being provided as an additional resource for those seeking to learn more about how New York State is addressing COVID-19.

4/22/20 Updates
From Governor Cuomo's Briefing in the Red Room of the NYS Capitol 

OVERVIEW 

  • Hospitalizations are down, intubations are down.
  • There were 1,366 COVID-19 hospitalizations yesterday.  

DEATHS: 14,821 (474 new) 

WHITE HOUSE MEETING 

  • Governor Cuomo met with President Trump yesterday at the White House. They discussed testing, state funding and the State/FEMA match. President Trump agreed to waive NY’s match, saving hundreds of millions of dollars.
  • Roughly 40,000 tests could be done daily in NY if all variables were brought up to capacity.  

CONTACT TRACING PLAN 

  • Test, trace, isolate.
  • This entire operation has never been done before, or near this scale.
  • NY needs a tracing army.
  • New York will launch with New Jersey and Connecticut a nation leading contact tracing army.
  • Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg has volunteered to help us develop and deliver a first-ever testing/tracing/isolating program, partnering with John Hopkins and Vital Strategies on coordinating efforts. 
  • This will be effort coordinated downstate and tri-state.
  • Bloomberg will provide about $10 million in funding to develop and coordinate a tracing plan; online curriculum will be created for tracers.
  • NY will also work with SUNY and CUNY to draw from 35,000 students in medical fields who can serve as tracers.
  • NY will receive $1.3 billion in funding from the federal government to support contact tracing.
  • Random surveys are being taken across the state (in grocery stores and street corners) to find how many people have been infected.  

REOPENING 

  • Businesses, schools and transportation go hand in hand in any reopening strategy.
  • Schools will only open if it is known that schools are disinfected and there are protocols in place for continued disinfecting and social distancing.  

ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH 

  • Neighborhoods with high concentrations of COVID-19 cases are also locations with polluting plants.
  • Asthma and respiratory illnesses are 3 times higher amongst African American communities.