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WPCNR CAMPAIGN 2020.From the Westchester County Board of Elections./ New York State Board of Elections UPDATED April 28, 2020:
The New York State Board of Elections cancelled the Democratic Presidential Primary in New York June 23 yesterday.
The Democratic Primaries for the 17th Congressional District and 93rd Assembly District will be held as scheduled.
The Westchester County Board of Elections advised WPCNR this morning that absentee ballots for the Presidential Primary June 23, and the 93rd NYS Assembly District (covering Scarsdale, White Plains, Harrison, Lewisboro, Bedford) now held by David Buchwald and the 17th Congressional District currently held by retiring Nita Lowey, will be mailed separately.
The Presidential primary ballot arrived over the weekend, and persons who have applied for the Assembly and Congressional primaries in June will receive their absentee ballots in late May.
Applications for absentee ballots are on the way to eligible voters from New York State by direction of Governor Andrew Cuomo, or you can request the applications for the assembly and congressional primary ballots by telephoning the Westchester County Board of Elections 914-995-2000 and pressing prompt 3 for absentee information, and request an application for an absentee ballot. Or you may write Absentee Ballot, Westchester County Board of Elections, 148 Martine Avenue, White Plains NY 10601
Benjamin Boykin, Chair of the Westchester County Board of Legislators advised of what you can expect from the State of New York mailing on the way:
On Friday, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an Executive Order requiring the New York State Board of Elections to automatically mail all registered voters in New York a postage-paid application for an absentee ballot for the June 23 primary election.
Earlier in the month, the Governor had issued an Executive Order allowing all New Yorkers to vote by absentee ballot in the primary.
What voters will be mailed is an application for the absentee ballot, not the ballot itself.
The application will need to be filled out and returned in order for a ballot to be mailed to voters. Voters requesting the absentee ballot because they are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic or concern about contracting the virus should check the box for “Temporary illness.”
GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO COMPLETE BRIEFING: RECOVERY OF NY IS UP TO OUR BEHAVIOR. AFTER MAY 15 IF TREND CONTINUES UPSTATE COUNTIES OPEN FIRST — DETAILS INTRICACY OF NY METRO AREA OPENING. NO DECISION ON SCHOOLS YET. (Albany Feed)THE REPORTERS’ Q & A.
WPCNR SUNDAY GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO CORONAVIRUS BRIEFING.By John F. Bailey, April 26, 2020 UPDATED 5:33 P.M. EDT:
The Hospitalization Rate declined to 1,000 new hospitalizations Saturday, Governor Andrew Cuomo said ALONG with all other key coronavirus statistics in the state. “To put it in focus, we had 367 deaths Saturday, which is horrific.”
The Curve of infections across the state declined to the level of March 1st, he said (when the New York spread of the disease began its rapid rise), hospitalizations declined, patients put on incubation were negative. The Governor said the current requirement to stay at home and closings statewide was in effect until May 15.
At that time, if Hospitalization Rate had been declining for 14 days, he said the state would begin the process oF reopening which would be begin with construction and manufacturing businesses in yet-to-be-selected upstate counties with the lowest infection rates in the northern tier, North Country or central NY regions. He did not name how many counties could open, or when the openings might start.
The News Release from the Governor’s press office added this detail:
” Phase one will include opening construction and manufacturing functions with low risk.
Phase two will open certain industries based on priority and risk level. Businesses considered “more essential” with inherent low risks of infection in the workplace and to customers will be prioritized, followed by other businesses considered “less essential” or those that present a higher risk of infection spread. As the infection rate declines, the pace of reopening businesses will be increased.
The region must not open attractions or businesses that would draw a large number of visitors from outside the local area.
There will be two weeks in between each phase to monitor the effects of the re-opening and ensure hospitalization and infection rates are not increasing.
This plan will be implemented with multi-state coordination, especially in downstate New York. The plan will also coordinate the opening of transportation systems, parks, schools, beaches and businesses with special attention on summer activities for downstate, public housing and low-income communities, food banks and child care.
The phased re-opening will also be based on individual business and industry plans that include new measures to protect employees and consumers, make the physical work space safer and implement processes that lower risk of infection in the business. The state is consulting with local leaders in each region and industry to formulate these plans.”
The counties SELECTED FOR OPENING would be monitored for two weeks to see if the spread of the virus which the governor said would likely happen, but the infection rate would have to contained below the one person infecting 1.2 other person ration, because that very slight increase would cause an outbreak. Currently the downstate New York Metropolitan area has a 1 person with the virus infecting .8 of a person contrasted to the upstate average of .9 a person, the governor said, reviewing the ways spread is increased.
The Governor did not say what would be done if there was an outbreak in infected counties. After the upstate counties selected for opening performance was evaluated there would be more analysis of the highly vulnerable downstate New York Metropolitan area.
This could possibly mean a Westchester-New York City-Nassau-Suffolk Openings in mid to late June, (but the Governor did not give a possible date, that is purely made by WPCNR looking at the calendar.) The Governor also noted that large events attracting many people would have to be curtailed, distanced or continue to be not allowed to avoid spiking an outbreak, but those big festivals are part of the analysis of all factors in the NY Metro area opening.
On the issue of Schools reopening, the governor said many districts are contemplating summer school to make up for lost time in their districts. The Governor alluded to the computer learning at home as very innovative, that was used to keep learning going, but summer is being considered by districts. He said there had not been a decision on when schools would be reopened, or when school budgets might be voted on or how.
He went into these details on how the New York Metropolitan area would reopen: Businesses would be allowed to open first on a city need basis and the businesses’ abilities to redesign work spaces, schedules and technology use to maintain safe social distancing within the firms. Last businesses to open would be hospitality, restaurants and hotels, because they presented the most problems with spreading the diseases. All businesses opening would have to submit a plan how redesigning, reimaging how their workers will work in a reimagined environment to keep coronavirus from flaring up again.
He told the story of the L train tunnel that opens tomorrow in Manhattan, and how that was built in less than 15 months because New York did it differently.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that the innovative L tunnel project is complete – six months earlier than the original proposal that would have shut down service, and three months ahead of the new innovative plan announced in January 2019, after the Governor convened a panel of engineering experts who determined a disruptive total shutdown was unnecessary. Completion came through under budget, saving more than $100 million in project costs. Beginning Monday, April 27, L train service will resume its previous service schedules with adjustments under the MTA Essential Service Plan.
The governor said he had no problem with professional sports teams playing a season if there were no fans in the stands. He suggested they work out a way to earn revenue without ticket sales to fans (no spectators in the stands) make a deal with players to lower their contracts, and receive payments presumably from media fees for the games He said he had talked to sports owners about this possibility and declined to name them.
He said he was looking into acquiring dairy products now
being disposed of by NY farmers, which he said was because schools had stopped
purchasing dairy for their food programs ( because schools are closed).
Governor Cuomo is seeking to have the product now being destroyed being
purchased by the state for food progrms across the state to bolster the food
programs now helping feed families in need due to the coronoavirus chaos.
He observed the anxiety of the public and the need to deal
with the “coronavirus toxicity” toll on New York lives. He said domestic
violence was up statewide, and employment issues, bills due, taking care of
children, lack of ability to socialize has created tremendous personal problems
which would have to be dealt with by the services sector and charitable
organizations and professionals.
He said as reopening comes, it is up to how New Yorkers
behave that will determine whether reopening is successful and the virus does
not return.
GOVERNOR CUOMO’S SATURDAY BRIEFING ON THE CORONA VIRUS TODAY (Albany Feed)
5,000 PHARMACIES CLEARED TO DO COLLECT TESTS OF HOSPITAL WORKERS, ESSENTIAL WORKERS, LABS WILL EVALUATE TESTS.
WPCNR SATURDAY GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO CORONAVIRUS BRIEFING.By John F. Bailey. April 25, 2020:
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo in his daily briefing, reported the number of new hospitalizations Friday declined to 1,100, which he described as “slipping down, relatively good news.”
In the news conference, he said he hoped to see it get down to 500 to 400 hospitalizations a day. Wednesday, Governor Cuomo said he hoped the flat new hospitalization rate this week, averaging 1,300 a day, would go down to a manageable level “to where we can control it.”
The governor said today all other trending of the coronavirus treatments continued on the way down and the curve was continuing its downward trend of new cases. He announced he was expanding testing significantly to essential workers, hospital workers most involved at four public hospitals taking the most covid-19 cases would be first to be tested, followed by Transit, Police, Firefighters, then essential public workers as previously described.
TODAY’S NEWS CONFERENCE IN ALBANY IN THE RED ROOM
Asked in the news conference if any reopening planned was going to be a staged opening of a series of manufacturing first, the Governor referred the reporter back to his previously announced, specific phasing sequence of the New York Reopening. The plan in forsees the first organizations to be opened would be evaluated on their ability to control the workplace environment to avoid igniting a new spread of the disease. Openings of the most covid-secure environments to the least Covid-Secure and how those businesses and organizations with more potential to spread coronavirus in present modes could be made to be more coivid-secure.
Dr. Marcus and Dr. Zimmerman who appear with the Governor on the briefing panel said that they had no demographic profiles of persons requiring hospitalization that have been admitted to hospitals, because that demograhical information comes later. The governor pointed out that the patient would have no idea where they contracted the virus either.
Melissa DeRosa, Secretary to the Governor said the 7 states (New Jersey, NY, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Massachussetts) were creating unique reopening plans for their states, and coordinating them with each of the other states so as not to create openings that worked for both their unique states without afflicting other states’ opening negatively. Governor Andrew Cuomo said that his task force on designing the rolling reopening he introduced Tuesday, was coordinating with upstate counties hammering out how that would work.
The governor dealt with the lament of persons who have told
the Governor “I Can’t take this anymore.” The Governor said he “got that,” but
urged persons tired of the 6 weeks of staying in their homes, limiting
congregating and maintaining social distance, no school, no work, no paychecks,
that their actions have saved lives through their 56 days of sacrifice, which
he said is a small price to pay to save lives.
His last words to the reporters today, “Wear masks.”
Finally, the Governor confirmed 10,553 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 282,143 confirmed cases in New York State. Of the 282,143 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follow (With NY Metropolitan Counties Highlighted in BOLDFACE):
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