Archive: NYS COVID-19 Resources & Information
4/28/20

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.

4/28/20 Updates
From Governor Cuomo's Briefing in the Red Room of the NYS Capitol 

OVERVIEW

  • Hospitalizations, and intubations are down.
  • New hospitalizations and new COVID-19 cases are slightly down, but still very high.

TOTAL NYS DEATHS: 17,638 (335 new)

TESTING

  • NYS will prioritize testing symptomatic individuals.
  • The State needs more testing sites across the State and advertisement of the testing sites in each region.

REOPENING

  • The Governor announced the NY Forward Reopening Advisory Board.
  • Click here to view Members of the NY Reopening Advisory Board.
  • We will need to keep an eye on the hospitalization rate (cannot hit 70%) and the infection rate when we reopen.
  • The State will follow CDC guidelines for reopening, maintaining a declining hospitalization rate for 14 days.
  • Businesses should plan to reimagine their workspace. 

CONTACT TRACING 

  • NY will be working with Michael Bloomberg and localities to develop a contact tracing plan, tracing those who are infected with COVID-19 and their interactions.
  • We need 30 tracers per 100,000 people.
  • Isolation facilities will be identified and utilized for those needing a quarantine location, as requested. Regions will need to identify these facilities. 

FROM THE Q & A 

  • The State Fair will not open this year.
  • We cannot think long term.
  • Regarding tracing, the Governor said that the State and localities will have to hire certain amounts of people for each region.
  • There will be built-in monitoring mechanisms to send alerts when hospital capacity gets too high or the rate of transmission is too high.
  • 400,000 unemployment claims are still open, with 3,000 people at Department of Labor working this issue.