Governor Cuomo Briefing November 22 2020

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The NY 3% infection rate standard is key to covid control.
Closures come from moving beyond that.
How is that measured? 3% is the average daily measure rate of infection (possibly based on test positivity numbers) across 7 days, which then stays continuous for 10 days after.

3% is the lowest tolerable infection rate that allows normal economic activity.
NY's covid control model should be studied by governors and their public health officials across the country.

How high will infection rates go?
Dec 1 - 10 will show the results of Thanksgiving activity.
Jan 2 - 15 will show the impact of all 37 days.

Then we'll know
if more restrictions are put on the economy,
if hospitals are stressed,
if medical front line workers deteriorate, and
if more people die.

Leaders: show your numbers to your community every single day to change how your community acts, because the vaccine will not arrive for six months, and the nation cannot handle the infection/death rate during that time.