Total Hospitalizations

18,825 18,697
18,569 18,654 18,707 18,33517,735 17,316
18,079 18,279
17,493
16,837
16,479
16,967
15,905

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 17
 Total Hospitalizations

Past the
Apex?

March 16 April 17
 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

-128

-362 -349

-419
-600

March 16 April 17
Net Change in Hospitalizations (3-Day Average)
1,289 1,294
1,226
1,200 1,214

1,083
1,046 1,059
1,012 1,032

899

679 676
646

529 529 533

475 481

359
303
239
192
131 127 143
91 85
14

-124

-363

-460 -456

March 16 April 17
 Net Change in ICU Admissions
395
374 374
358
335
315 312
302
282

250

215
192 189
172

143 140 135

128
104 101
84
77
69
46
33 35

-17 -20
-32
-42 -43

-134

March 17 April 17
 Net Change in Intubations
351

313 316
303
290 295 291

260

222

200
192

165

132
124 121
116
109 110
93 94
88
69 69

43
27

-7
-14
-26 -21
-40
-48

-73

March 17 April 17
 New COVID Hospitalizations Per Day
Gross change in hospitalizations 3,413
3,261

3,034

2,844 2,857 2,848 2,882

2,821

2,553 2,538
2,507 2,486

2,241 2,253

2,082
1,958 1,996 1,974
1,883 1,915
1,796 1,813
1,722
1,649

1,084

909
823
776

489

March 20 April 17
 Number of Lives Lost

Worst news is still

tragic.
 Number of Lives Lost
April 12: 671
April 13: 778
April 14: 752
April 15: 606
April 16: 630
April 17: 540
(504 Hospitals, 36 Nursing Homes)
TESTING
 Testing

Testing is key to monitoring

the rate of infection
and controlling it.
 Reopen Tension
Infection Rate
1 NOW .9

• Open Business
1
WAS
1.4 Vs. • Gatherings

What did it?

• NY PAUSE
• Social Distancing
• Masks
 Reopen Too Fast
Infection Rate Rises
~ .9 1.2

MARGIN OF ERROR
 Testing

If you test,
you can find positives.
Then trace.
Then isolate.

TRACING ARMY
 Tracing

We need thousands of
tracing investigators just
for our state.

STAY HOME. STOP THE SPREAD. SAVE LIVES.

How Do We Get It Done Up To Scale?

Establish a fully
synchronized statewide
testing process
similar to Surge & Flex
hospital capacity strategy.

STAY HOME. STOP THE SPREAD. SAVE LIVES.

New York Is Testing More Than Any Other State

NEW YORK

CALIFORNIA
FL
NJ

MI

CT
 New York Is Testing More Than Anywhere Else
22
TESTING PER CAPITA
20 New York State
18

16

14
Italy
12

10 Canada South Korea

8

6 United States
4 France
2
United Kingdom
0
Per thousand people, since day of 100th confirmed case
Mass Diagnostic + Contact Tracing

In New Rochelle, we
rapidly expanded
diagnostic testing
and traced all known
contacts to control
the cluster
IT WORKED
 Bringing testing to
scale is the
challenge.

STAY HOME. STOP THE SPREAD. SAVE LIVES.

 Testing
Done by private laboratory equipment manufacturers
(about approx. 30 large national manufacturers)

They sell their tests to smaller labs, who sell tests to

hospitals and the public (about 300 labs licensed by NY)

For a test to be performed, local labs must have the

In New York State, we called
the top 50 labs and asked
We asked the labs: What would it take to double your capacity?
• Northwell Health
• Lenco Laboratories
• not allowing us to purchase additional reagents. They have limited us to 400 tests
per day, when we are capable of doing 2800 tests per day Empire City Laboratories
• BronxCare
• could double right away ACM Laboratories Rochester
•
CHS Regional Laboratories
• Lennox Hill Laboratories
• SUNY Upstate
•
steady and sufficient supply chain of reagents. With an increase in supply chain, we could more
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
 The federal government regulates
large manufacturers so they send product
as directed by the feds.
Need federal coordination of supply chain.
 We need
federal partnership.
 Also Need Federal Funding

• Airlines?
• Small businesses?
the state governments
who also fund small businesses,
hospitals, and schools.
 Federal Aid to States

• The federal CARES Act contained zero funding

to offset drastic state revenue shortfalls.
• The National Governors Association is
renewing our bipartisan call for
$500 billion in aid to states.

STAY HOME. STOP THE SPREAD. SAVE LIVES.

 Federal government sent 1.5
million cloth mask to NYS that we
will distribute to the public.

STAY HOME. STOP THE SPREAD. SAVE LIVES.

 Last Point

PERSONAL OPINION
The
Frustrated.
Anxious.
Scared.
Angry.
This
POLITICS
NO PARTISAN DIVISION
A house divided against itself
cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln
June 16, 1858
If a house is divided against
itself, that house, cannot stand.
Mark 3:25
 Not

Rise up from the greatest challenge

since World War II.
Remember,

UNITED
STATES