Cuomo says he'll decide in a week whether to keep schools and businesses closed past May 15 as the coronavirus ebbs
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday said he'll decide in a week whether to extend the business and school closures and stay-at-home orders — collectively referred to as the NY PAUSE program — past May 15.
Reopening schools and the wider New York economy is a careful balancing act, though deaths and hospitalizations from the"If you say, well, we're done, can't stay in the house anymore, let's just reopen, just start business tomorrow, let's go - what happens?" Cuomo said from Albany.
He also said to "bank on it" that a pandemic will happen again. "Let's not put our heads in the sand." "We acted two months after the China outbreak," Cuomo said. "How can you expect that when you act two months after the outbreak in China the virus was only in China waiting for us to act?"
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