Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose daily news briefings during the COVID-19 crisis morphed into must-see TV for many in and outside New York State, has announced his final regularly scheduled briefing will be this Friday. Cuomo said he will hold news briefings as needed in the future.
Cuomo said: “These daily briefings, while fun, take a lot of time, and I’m going to finish the daily briefings on Friday, and then we’ll do briefings as necessary, and I’m sure they will often be necessary. But we’re going to turn the page on the immediacy of this crisis. I hope people learn from what we accomplished here in New York. I hope people around the country look at New York and say, how did they do that? How did they go from the worst situation in terms of transmission to the best? How did they do that? I hope they look around and say, how can all these states be going up and New York is going down? How can that be? I thought New York had such a terrible problem. All that density, all that crowding. How’s New York going down and our states are going up? What’s the difference between what we’re doing and what New York is doing? Isn’t that peculiar? How can New York be going down and we’re going up? That would be the logical question to ask. And there is a logical answer, and that answer can save lives. We have saved tens of thousands of lives, New York. And that is more important than any of this other stuff.”
