States that are reopening their economies despite rising cases of the novel coronavirus are making a mistake, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday, urging that such decisions be based on facts and data rather than politics.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at a daily briefing at North Shore University Hospital, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Manhasset, New York, U.S., May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Over the past few days Cuomo has started to outline the criteria for loosening restrictions on businesses in New York, after a three-week decline in hospitalizations and a downtrend in the daily death count. New York is the worst-hit state by far, with more than a third of the country’s 71,000 deaths.
“Yes, our line is going down, our number of cases is going down,” said Cuomo, who has yet to green light the reopening of any region of New York. “You take New York out of the national numbers, the numbers for the rest of the nation are going up.”
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