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The League of Women Voters of Westchester County Education Foundation announced today that it will sponsor a virtual Candidates Forum for candidates in the Democratic Party Primary Election for Westchester District Attorney.
The virtual forum is scheduled for Thursday May 28, 2020 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The two candidates in the primary are Mimi Rocah and Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr.
As it is neither practical nor prudent for participants to be co-located for this event, the League will use the cloud-based video conferencing application Zoom and participants will join from their chosen remote locations.
The Forum will be live-streamed and also be recorded for subsequent viewing on the county and local League of Women Voters’ websites through Primary Election Day, June 23. The League is soliciting questions from the public to be posed to the candidates.
“The League’s Candidates Forums provide residents with the opportunity to hear from all candidates on important issues in a calm, respectful, nonpartisan environment that encourages civil discourse,” says League of Women Voters of Westchester President Marylou Green. “We are particularly pleased to bring the candidates together virtually, as options for interaction between candidates and voters are greatly curtailed at this time.”
WPCNR MONDAY GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUOMO BRIEFING. By John F. Bailey. May 18, 2020:
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced he is corona virus negative this morning, after is televised coronavirus test yesterday. He said he “had a nice sense of relief. It is a peace of mind.” He emphasized this is a good reason to take the test and encouraged everyone nervous (about symptoms) to get a test and 700 locations around the state.
BUFFALO TO REOPEN.
He announced the state was shipping 329,000 testing kits to
nursing homes across the state to enable them to test employees twice a week. He
has cleared NY labs to handle 35,000 test analyses a week expected from the
nursing homes.
He pointed out that if you test an employee on a Monday and test them again in a week they could infect persons for 6 days if the employee contracted the virus the day after they were tested. He noted that nursing homes have been complaining about testing employees twice a week, saying to him, “No other state requires us to test twice a week.” The Governor said, “It is necessary. You can’t have it both ways.” (There were 106 new deaths from coronavirus in New York State Sunday, the governor reported. Hospitals accounted for 83 deaths; Nursing Homes, 23.)
The governor announced that two experts were going to be analyzing
the numbers produced by New York regions around the state. They are Dr. Samir
Bhatt, Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London whose College had the most
accurate statistical model the state used during the onset of the coronavirus
outbreak. The second consultant is Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and
Policy, University of Minnesota.
Dr. Bhatt commented from London, by telephone.
“You have controlled the coronavirus,” Dr. Bhatt said in a brief interview from London.
Governor Cuomo said: “Dr. Osterholm is a nationwide expert in this field and he has agreed to review our data, what we’re doing, what’s happening, and to advise us as to how our progress looks on the numbers. I want to thank him very much. We to have Dr. Samir Bhatt, Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, who has agreed to serve as an advisor to the State of New York. Dr. Bhatt is the senior lecturer in geostatistics at the Imperial College in London. Geostatistics is not my field of endeavor. I never heard of geostatistics before, doctor. That’s why we need you to advise us, Dr. Bhatt, because I know nothing about geostatistics. But Dr. Bhatt is joining us, I want to thank him very much. The Imperial College in London, we have had a number of projection models that were done early on by a number of very prestigious universities.
And we’ve been watching all these projection models since this started. As you know, many of the models were not 100 percent accurate because they couldn’t calculate the effect of the social participation and what people actually did to change the curve. And in a State like New York, what the people did dramatically changed that curve so it affected the projections. But, the Imperial College model, as we’ve been following this for weeks, was the best, most accurate model.”
Governor Cuomo announced judges and staff will return to courthouses in 30 Upstate Counties starting this week.
In remarks on the New York Reopenings in progress, Governor Cuomo said the success of the reopening “is not a political option. The 30 Counties reopening have to monitor the impact with the numbers and new infections:
70% of hospital beds must be available
70% ICU bed per hospital
30 tests per 1,000 residents
30 tracers in place per 100,000 residents
1:1 Infection Rate must not be exceeded
The governor called the reopening guidelines ‘a liberation in that it an exercise in science and math. What we do today determines how we ‘re going to stay there.
During the “Q & A,” the governor said the 3-day moving average on the Guidelines for opening (and staying open) is hard and fast, you can not exceed the 3-day moving average. He also said the Hospitalization rate is a lagging indicator, stressing the more important benchmark which is the new infection rate.
The governor said he encouraged, basketball, hockey and baseball professional leagues to resume and start seasons without fans in the arenas and stands, if they could make it work financially, saying “the state will help you,” without defining “help.”
The Governor said it is popular to say, “I think you should reopen slower. What is behind ‘I think.’ You say I think you should reopen faster. What is behind ‘I think.’ Let’s keep our opinions out of it. Let’s keep it on the numbers.”
Governor Cuomo gives Reopening Regions and New Yorkers a peptalk: “COME BACK BETTER.”
WPCNR SUNDAY GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUOMO BRIEFING. By John F.
Bailey. May 17, 2020:
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo asked more New Yorkers to get
coronavirus tests today, who think they might have symptoms, and added anyone
who might be returning to work in upstate reopenings to get tested. The reason
is to help to control the spread of the virus after reopening and because the
state is currently performing 5,000 tests a day when it has the capacity to
perform 15,000 at some 700 sites across the state.
The Governor announced that the Western New York Region and
the Capitol Regions would be reopened next as soon as the correct number of
tracing personnel were hired and trained. The Capito Region has hired 383 and
needs to hire another 166. Western New York has hired 521, needs 35. The
Governor said they expected to get tracers in place “within a few days”
The Governor encouraged persons to pay attention to their mental health and the stress the 78 days of shut down and aanxiety of taken on them mentally, encouraging them to call the mental health hotline, 1-844-863-9314, and to visit a new website, www.howareyoureally.org, started by a niece of the Governor’s to help persons face how they are really feeling about all the stress. The Governor showed charts show how over 30% of Americans nationwide (in the first edition of this article WPCNR wrote NYers, WPCNR regrets the error), have expressed mental difficulties in dealing with the stress.
In the “Q. & A.,” the Governor was asked about summer
camps being allowed. The Governor said the spread of pediatric- Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome
is a factor in allowing how camps open and under what conditions. Dr. Howard
Zucker said there were over 120 cases now. The Governor said he fears there are
a lot more. The issue of summer camps opening at all is being delayed at the
present time.
Melissa DaRossa, Secretary to the Governor said the state is
now dealing with possible fraud and double payment issues on the question of
unemployment checks. The Governor said the backlog is “done.”
In the question of justice for families whose nursing home
loved ones had died, the Governor said the received the best care possible, and
that there was not a way to tell who to prosecute in alleged negligence.
The Governor at the close of his briefing showed how simply
testing for the coronavirus was by being tested on camera during the briefing.
He said if he tested positive he would not be back tomorrow.
WPCNR Saturday Governor Andrew Cuomo CoronaVirus Brief. (UPDATE):
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo confirmed 2,419 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 348,232 confirmed cases in New York State. Of the 348,232 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows (Mid-Hudson Regions in BOLD FACE :
