Governor Cuomo unveils a seven-state consortium for buying medical supplies and testing equipment for coronavirus fight as deaths in New York State rise by 280 to 19,189 and cases reach 316,415
- Cuomo announced slight drop in number of deaths reported on Sunday compared to Saturday and also said number of hospitalizations and intubations was down
- Cuomo said seven-state consortium has been formed to pool resources for supplies
- Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware are joining with New York to form the consortium
- Cuomo said 280 new deaths from COVID-19 were reported on Saturday
- That's a slight drop from the 299 deaths reported the day before, governor said
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Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York reported a slight decrease in the number of statewide COVID-19 deaths on Sunday
New York is banding together with six nearby states to purchase equipment and supplies that sometimes have been hard to come by during the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday.
After working with neighboring states on coronavirus-related closing and reopening plans, Cuomo said Sunday that New York will join with states from Massachusetts to Delaware to create a regional supply chain for masks, gowns, ventilators, testing supplies and other equipment vital to fighting the disease.
The seven-state consortium, which includes New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, was formed on the same day that Cuomo announced 280 more statewide deaths from COVID-19.
The number is a slight drop from the 299 deaths he reported on Saturday.
More than 19,100 people in the state have died from coronavirus, though the total doesn't include more than 5,300 deaths in the city that were attributed to the virus on death certificates but weren't confirmed by a lab test.
Since the start of the pandemic, New York State has reported 316,415 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
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The governor also reported a slight decline in the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations statewide
Cuomo on Sunday also reported a drop in the number of statewide intubations
Cuomo said there were 280 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday - a slight drop from the 299 deaths reported on Friday
'You can see that that number has not moved dramatically in a relatively long period of time,' the governor said during his daily coronavirus briefing held on Sunday in New York City.
'The overall direction is good, even though it's very painful.'
But the governor said he was encouraged by data showing fewer hospitalizations and intubations statewide.
Cuomo said the total hospitalization rate fell to below 10,000 on Sunday.
Hospitalizations peaked far at 18,825 on April 12 and fell to almost half that - 9,786 - on Saturday.
That is the lowest number of hospitalizations across the state since mid-March, Cuomo said.
The governor also announced that there were fewer intubations - 789.
'That's good news,' Cuomo said. 'We were hovering at about 900, 1,000.'
Cuomo on Sunday invited the governors of four of New York's neighboring states to remotely address the briefing and talk about the consortium.
'We can work together to buy things that we need to allow our healthcare system to have the capacity it needs to fight this fight,' Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf said.
Cuomo (far left) announced a partnership on Sunday with neighboring governors who will pool resources to buy medical supplies. Cuomo is seen left with Governors Ned Lamont of Connecticut (top left); Phil Murphy of New Jersey (top right); John Carney of Delaware (bottom right); and Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania (bottom left)
Cuomo on Sunday also announced 280 new deaths on Saturday - a slight drop from 299 COVID-19 deaths from the previous day
As of Sunday, there were a total of 316,415 COVID-19 cases statewide, the latest figures show
Massachusetts and Rhode Island are also part of the seven-state consortium announced on Sunday by Cuomo. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker (left) and Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo (right) are pictured above
Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey said: 'Someone said to me a couple days ago that gowns have become the new ventilators and so we are still there.
'So the notion of coordinating together as a region makes enormous amount of sense so sign New Jersey up.'
Governors John Carney of Delaware and Ned Lamont of Connecticut also gave brief statements.
The states are joining together after months of dealing separately with what Cuomo said was a 'totally inefficient and ineffective' purchasing process that pitted all 50 states against each other, as well as the federal government and other entities, driving up prices as supplies dried up.
New York buys about $2billion worth of medical equipment supplies per year, Cuomo said.
The other states joining the consortium together spend about $5 billion per year.
Working together, they'll have stronger purchasing power and improve their clout with global suppliers, Cuomo said.
Protective masks and bandannas were distributed in the Prospect Park section of Brooklyn on Sunday
The bandannas and masks were handed out by the New York City Parks Department
Face masks will continue to be distributed in the weeks ahead as New York continues to be the global center of the COVID-19 outbreak
'It will make us more competitive in the international marketplace and I believe it will save taxpayers money,' Cuomo said.
'I also believe it will actually help us get the equipment, because we have trouble still getting the equipment.'
One goal, the states' governors said, is to find suppliers within the region, instead of relying on swamped manufacturers in China and other faraway places.
On a parallel track, they'll also continue to work with the federal government to procure medical gear, Cuomo said.
'Whatever they can do to help is great,' Cuomo said.
In a lesson learned from the coronavirus crisis, Cuomo said that going forward, hospitals in New York will be required to to keep a 90-day supply on hand of masks, gowns and other personal protective equipment that ran critically short at times.
In building their stockpiles, hospitals should account not for normal usage, but for the high equipment usage rates they've seen during the pandemic, Cuomo said.
Because of dwindling supplies, hospitals were rationing supplies and asking staff to reuse masks until they became soiled.
At one point in the crisis, hospitals in the New York-Presbyterian system were burning through about 40,000 masks a day - about 10 times the normal amount, according to Columbia University Medical Center officials.
'We can't go through this day-to-day moving masks across the state, this mad scramble that we were in and still are, in many ways,' Cuomo said.
Meanwhile, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is praising residents for mostly adhering to coronavirus social distancing rules during the warmest weekend of the spring, with police handing out only a few dozen summonses.
Tens of thousands of people flocked to New York City's parks and public spaces Saturday as temperatures hit the low-70s, and for the most part they complied with social distancing rules.
'The big story here is what New Yorkers have done right,' de Blasio said.
Officers issued 51 summonses, including 43 in parks, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said.
There were at least three arrests.
About 1,000 police officers were out on foot, bicycles, in patrol cars and even on horseback to enforce public health restrictions requiring people - as well as couples, families and other small groups living under the same roof - to keep 6 feet away from others.
Officers were also handing out face masks, which people are required to wear when social distancing is not possible, breaking up large gatherings and stopping people from playing team sports, which are still banned.
'The vast majority of New Yorkers have really risen to the challenge,' de Blasio said, though he and Shea noted some overcrowding at places like Manhattan´s Hudson River Park and Brooklyn´s Domino Park.
In Harlem, dozens of people crowded a blocked off street for a memorial to a 30-year-old father of three who was shot dead last week.
De Blasio said such large gatherings are a violation of city and state public health guidelines and 'have to be stopped before they even get started.'
'We have to get clear to people that no such events should be happening,' de Blasio said.
'When you start to attract large numbers of people, the chance of social distancing being maintained is minimal.'
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