Today is day 53.

Long Time
or
Short Time?
 WWI 4 years
WWII 6 years
Vietnam War 8 years
1910 Cholera Outbreak 1 year
1918 Pandemic 2 years
Feels terribly long!
 Total Hospitalizations
18,825 18,697
18,569 18,654 18,707
18,335
18,079 18,279
17,735
17,493 17,316
16,837 16,967
16,479
16,213 16,103 16,044
15,905
15,599
14,810

13,383

12,226

10,929

9,517

8,503

7,328

6,481

5,327

4,079
3,343
2,629
2,043
1,406
1,042
496 617
326

March 16 April 21
 Total Hospitalizations

Past the
Apex?

March 16 April 21
 Net Change in Total Hospitalizations
1,412 1,427

1,297
1,248
1,154 1,175 1,157
1,095
1,014

847

714 736
637 656
586 574 586

425
364 358
290
200
170
121 118
91 85
53

-59
-128 -110

-362 -349
-419

-536
-600

-754

March 16 April 21
 Net Change in Intubations
351

313 316
303 291
290 295

260

222
200
192

165

121
132
124
116
109 110
93 69 94
88
69

43
27

-7
-14
-26 -21
-32
-40 -41
-48

-73

-112
-127

March 17 April 21
STAY HOME. STOP THE SPREAD. SAVE LIVES.
 New COVID Hospitalizations Per Day
Gross change in hospitalizations (3-day rolling average)
3,177 3,165
3,038
2,921
2,812
2,736 2,721 2,739
2,635
2,556
2,485
2,411
2,327
2,210
2,048 2,074
1,925 1,949 1,953 1,966 1,962

1,777 1,758

1,564 1,560

1,367 1,366
1,263

923
836
696
605
496

March 20 April 21
 Number of Lives Lost
April 16: 630
April 17: 540
April 18: 507
April 19: 478
April 20: 481
April 21: 474
(446 in Hospitals, 28 in Nursing Homes)
 THIS IS A
PROFOUND MOMENT
IN HISTORY
 OUR ACTIONS
SHAPE OUR FUTURE
Only the truth matters.
 Yesterday I had a
productive visit
to the White House.
 State & Federal Partnership

• Testing?
• State funding?
• State/FEMA match
Test Trace Isolate
remains the key.
 Contact Tracing

If you test,
you can find
positives.
Then trace.
 Contact Tracing

If you test,
you can find
positives.
Then trace.
Then isolate.
Never Been
Done Before
SO WHAT!
 Contact Tracing

We need a
TRACING ARMY
 Building a Tracing Army
New York will work with our
neighbors to launch
a nation-leading contact
tracing program. NY
CT

NJ

Gov. Murphy Gov. Lamont

 Building a Tracing Army

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has volunteered

to help us develop a first-ever
testing/tracing/isolation program.
 Building a Tracing Army

Johns Hopkins University and

Vital Strategies will partner in this effort.
 Building a Tracing Army
• Will be a coordinated downstate and
tri-state effort.
•
NEW YORK STATE: • We will also work with
225
ROCKLAND:
WESTCHESTER:
SUNY and CUNY to
40
50 draw from 35,000
SUFFOLK:
students in medical
NYC: 140 fields who can serve
200 NASSAU:
60 as tracers.
 Today is the
50 Anniversary
th

of Earth Day
 Earth Day

Neighborhoods with high

concentrations of COVID cases are
also locations with polluting plants.
 Earth Day

Asthma and respiratory illnesses are

3X more likely
among African American
communities.
 Looking Ahead

This is one of the lessons

we must learn from this experience.
 Looking Ahead

When New Yorkers/Americans

come together,
 Looking Ahead

the transcendent
threat of our time:
climate change and
protecting our environment.
 Personal Opinion

Local officials feel

political pressure to open.

I GET IT
BUT WE
BE STUPID
This is a marathon,
not a sprint.
 Reminder: 1918 Influenza Epidemic

8 MONTHS Third Peak

First Peak

Second Peak
BLAME ME
When the freedom they wished
for most was freedom from
responsibility, then [they]
ceased to be free.
Edith Hamilton/
Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
NEW YORK TOUGH
SMART
DISCIPLINED
UNIFIED
LOVING