{"id":5733,"date":"2020-04-07T19:22:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T00:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/?p=5733"},"modified":"2020-04-07T19:23:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T00:23:37","slug":"nys-coronavirus-update-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/5733","title":{"rendered":"NYS Coronavirus Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>How to Make a Face Covering<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"495\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tPx1yqvJgf4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>By tomorrow, the Federal Government will have deployed over 3,000 military and public health professionals to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,<\/b> and other parts of our country most affected by Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><b>The government is delivering an additional 600,000 N95 masks to New York City to support its public hospital system, as requested by Mayor Bill de Blasio.<\/b> Another 200,000 will be delivered to Suffolk County on Long Island.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/DEC_AlbanyCampus.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>Forest Rangers assist at the new COVID-19 mobile testing site at the State University at Albany campus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>DEC personnel from across agency divisions and regions statewide are supporting the State&#8217;s response to COVID-19.<\/b> Personnel from more than 20 New York State agencies are working on response efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19. DEC Forest Rangers&#8217; expertise in the Incident Command System (ICS) and experience in applying ICS to wide area searches and large wildland fire have made them a key part of this statewide effort. Several DEC Forest Rangers are part of the New York State Incident Management Team, or IMT, an interagency team comprised of personnel from various state, county, and local agencies who represent a variety of disciplines. The IMT assists Incident Command personnel and emergency managers in ensuring a prompt, efficient, and organized response to complex incidents.<\/p>\n<p><b>New York&#8217;s &#8220;surge and flex&#8221; hospital system is being put to work.<\/b> 802 ventilators have been distributed downstate, where all hospital systems are working together as one and sharing supplies, equipment and staff. Of the 802 ventilators, 38 were deployed to Rockland County, 36 were deployed to Westchester County, 505 were deployed to New York City and 223 were deployed to Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere:<\/p>\n<p><b>In Tuesday\u2019s Coronavirus Task Force briefing, President Trump announced that \u201cwe\u2019re gonna put a hold on money spent to the WHO [World Health Organization].\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The President said:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The WHO, that\u2019s the World Health Organization, receives vast amounts of money from the United States, and we pay for a majority of \u2014 the biggest portion of their money, and they actually criticized and disagreed with my travel ban at the time I did it, and they were wrong. They\u2019ve been wrong about a lot of things. They had a lot of information early and they didn\u2019t want to \u2014 they seemed to be very China-centric, and we have to look into that, so we\u2019re gonna look into it. We pay for a majority of the money they get\u2026.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;They called it wrong. They called it wrong. They really \u2014 they missed the call. They could have called it months earlier. They would have known, and they should have known, and they probably did know, so we\u2019ll be looking into that very carefully. And we\u2019re gonna put a hold on money spent to the WHO. We\u2019re gonna put a very powerful hold on it, and we\u2019re gonna see. It\u2019s a great thing if it works, but when they call every shot wrong, that\u2019s no good.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Make a Face Covering By tomorrow, the Federal Government will have deployed over 3,000 military and public health professionals to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and other parts of our country most affected by Coronavirus. The government is delivering an additional 600,000 N95 masks to New York City to support its public hospital &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/5733\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NYS Coronavirus Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-ny-state"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5733"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5743,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}