Posted on 03/26/2020 2:32:46 PM PDT by Hojczyk
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that quarantining everyone together in New York City is probably not the best pubic health strategy in the fight against the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
“What we did was we closed everything down. That was our public health strategy. Just close everything,” Cuomo recalled.
He admitted during his daily press conference that he might have done things differently.
“If you rethought that, or had time to analyze that public health strategy, I don’t know that you would say, ‘quarantine everyone,'” he said. “I don’t even know that was the best public health policy.”
He suggested that younger people quarantined with the elderly might have spread the virus more quickly.
“Young people then quarantined with old people was probably not the best public health strategy,’ he said. “Because the younger people could have been exposing the older people with an infection.”
Currently, there have been 385 deaths from coronavirus in New York City.
Cuomo said that going forward, he would work on a “smarter” strategy, possibly allowing younger people and people who have recovered from the virus to go back to work.
He noted that both the state of New York and the federal government were both trying to decide how to get people back to work in a way that did not threaten lives or risk outbreaks in the rest of the country.
“We have to do both,” he said.
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The walking it back begins . . .
Trump would never be allowed by the media to waiver at all from initial positions without ripping him for it. Cuomo will be hailed a hero for doing the same.
Yep.
Finally dating on him what he has done to his city!
Dawning on him
How about focusing in on the drug known as hydroxychloroquine along with z packs....there have been lots of people who have benefitted from this and yet no one wants to stand up, except Trump and push for this
I don't fault a few days of shelter in place.
It can't be kept up though. It's too destructive long term.
You mean, State. DiBlasio owns New York City.
Cuomo. Leftists’ Trump.
Hey...I thought it would April 1 when they started walking it back...
“The walking it back begins . . .”
Nope. He takes all sides every day.
For you who believed that BS poll that claims 75% support for a National lockdown. Here’s your proof that it was a lie
Must have gotten lessons from Mitt.
The next time, he'll quarantine everyone according to age...children will be put in cages...
I guarantee you these governors and other politicians are getting an earful from small business owners who are being devastated. And these same governors have to be looking in horror at the big decreases in sales tax revenues because people are not out spending like they used to.
I didn’t know Andrew Cuomo was a flubro. Kinda sounds like he flipped to flubro.
New Yorkers are going to escape house arrest only by voting out their jailer.
yup
yup
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