As of today...6052 Nursing Home deaths in PA!
Posted on 11/13/2020 6:47:51 PM PST by lightman
Gov. Tom Wolf will meet with the governors of New York, New Jersey and other northeastern states this weekend to discuss possibly coordinating new restrictions to help curb COVID-19 spread as as a second wave of the coronavirus grips the region.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the “emergency summit” on Friday. Gov. Phil Murphy’s office confirmed the meeting to NJ Advance Media, saying the discussion will be held virtually.
“Governor Murphy looks forward to continuing our work with our regional partners to address the public health crisis,” spokesman Mahen Gunaratna said.
The summit will also include the governors of Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
An email to the Wolf administration seeking comment Friday night was not immediately returned.
Cuomo said the group will discuss possibly coordinating more regulations on bars, restaurants, bars, and gyms, as well as limits on gatherings and interstate travel.
“The reality is the virus is mobile and we’re in the holiday season and people will travel more," the New York governor said. "These are all elements that conspire to increase the spread. We believe we’re going to have to be taking additional steps, and to the degree we can share information and align action with other regional states, we’ll do that.”
It’s unclear what the steps may be, but Cuomo said he does not expect any major changes announced over the weekend.
Many states have issued their own guidelines in recent days. In New Jersey, Murphy has ordered restaurants to end indoor dining each night by 10 p.m. and has given local governments the choice to institute 8 p.m. business closings if they want.
New York has limited the number of people at gatherings inside private residences at 10. Asked Thursday if New Jersey will do the same, Murphy said: “All options are on the table.”
Murphy has stopped short of calling for a statewide stay-at-home or lockdown order like he did during the first wave of the pandemic in the spring. But he has repeatedly said he’s not ruling anything out.
Because many residents crisscross the region for work and necessities, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania coordinated some regulations early in the pandemic. But the states have mostly acted on their own as cases dropped during the summer.
New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut announced a joint travel advisory in June calling for travelers from states considered hot spots to self-quarantine for 14 days. But Cuomo announced earlier this month that New York was puling out of the pact and would instead test visitors for the virus.
New Jersey and Connecticut have continued the travel advisory, though neighboring states are exempt.
Pennsylvania reported another one-day high with more than 5,500 new cases Friday. The Keystone State has registered about 11,000 new cases in the past two days. About 2,300 coronavirus patients are in hospitals, up from 1,200 less than two weeks ago.
This week, Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine has said the state isn’t looking at dramatic steps such as a statewide shutdown of schools or new restrictions akin to those in the spring. She noted Pennsylvania restaurants are already limited to 50% of indoor capacity and the last call for alcoholic drinks is 11 p.m.
Murphy and other state officials have sounded alarms about a second COVID-19 wave in New Jersey in recent weeks, with news cases, hospitalizations, transmission rate, and positivity rate ticking up.
On Friday, New Jersey reported 3,399 more cases and 28 additional deaths, marking the fifth time in seven days officials announced more than 3,000 positive tests. And while new deaths have not increased at the rate they did in the spring, Friday marked the most deaths announced in one day since July 24.
The state’s hospitals reported 1,909 patients with either confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases as of Thursday night — the most since June 3.
New York, meanwhile, has reported more than 45,700 new coronavirus cases in the past 14 days. The state is reporting an average of 4,163 new cases per day over the past seven days.
“You cannot take this rate of increase and survive pending the arrival of a vaccine,” Cuomo said.
As of today...6052 Nursing Home deaths in PA!
And you will likely be getting biden
Who will you blame then?
If we're forced into another hard lockdown like the one we had to endure earlier this year... hubby and I will drive south to one of the FREE STATES to ride it out. SO sick of this sh*t!
Cuomotose .... LOVE IT !
So are they doing a zoom meeting?
So are they doing a zoom meeting?
Apparently, someone is going to #releasetheKraken
Yes, tony
I thought compacts weren’t allowed?
So the 3 tin pot dictators are getting together to deny thier population the vaccine and to kill more of its people. How about checking the voter fraud in NY NJ and Conn while we are at it as well!
‘G-d willing, Pennsylvania will KEEP Trump in the White House in 2020.’Pennsylvania PUT Trump in the White House in 2016.’
it’ll take 14 more EV’s, even if somehow Trump gains PA, which is less than likely...
The People have to use two key phrases as they try to enslave us:
Molon Labe!
&
Come and make me!
I can’t believe these idiots in Albany, Trenton, Hartford, and Harrisburg...
Maryland has something similar. You’re apparently exempt from the testing guidelines if you travel to a heavily-impacted adjoining state or territory (PA, DE, VA, WV, DC).
Like all other states, your idiot governor and other statewide officials, excluding U.S. Senators, needs to be elected in an electoral-college-style election. Each PA county and Philly would have an equal number of EVs for the start (1 or 2 apiece), then you would add at least one more EV in each county, depending on population.
Fraudadelphia and Allefraudy County would still have significant weight in a state E.C., but PA wouldn’t be completely at their mercy every 4 years.
President Biden visits Germany.
Chancellor Merkel: Hello, President Backpfeifengesicht!
Comrade Lamont is now in quarantine because he may have been exposed to CCPVirus form a staffer. I guess all his precious masks haven’t worked out very well.
I was just looking FL, without ANY restrictions, and has a lower rate of cases per million, yet you must quarantine of you got to FL and return to CT.
If you ask any lefty, that means it is a certain death sentence, alone in a hospital for everyone.
Interesting, thanks. If CT goes back to full lockdown, maybe we'll head to Florida. IF we go, we'll be driving (not flying), so I don't know how any "authority" figure will catch us at some border, then force us to quarantine.
yup- heard the same thing when we went to Florida in August for vacation for 15 days...we were all going to die...haven’t has as much as the sniffles
Ok, who’s up for a tea party along the Susquehanna?
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