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#BREAKING: NY, CT and NJ are taking joint regional action to reduce the spread of #COVID19:
Effective 8PM TONIGHT:
-Crowd capacity reduced to 50 -Restaurants/bars will be takeout/delivery ONLY -Gyms closed -Movie theaters closed -Casinos closed
3:26 PM - 16 Mar 2020
These temporary closures will last as long as is necessary to protect the public health. Grocery stores will remain OPEN.
Our primary goal is to slow the spread of #Coronavirus so that the wave doesn’t crash our healthcare system. Social distancing is the best way to do that. I have called on the federal gov't to implement nationwide protocols, but in their absence we are taking this on ourselves.
Andrew Cuomo@NYGovCuomo 

...There is now only one question your team must answer for you: Can we slow the spread of the disease to a rate that our state health care systems can handle? The answer increasingly looks like no. But that does not mean we should not try.
...So first, Mr. President, you must stop the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from overregulating the testing process, and authorize states to certify a wider array of testing labs and methods.
...That means that while New York is conducting thousands of tests a day, we are still below our full testing capacity because many labs still rely on low-volume manual testing.
...Second, the closing of schools and businesses has federal implications, even if these are state or local decisions.
...Ask your experts, how many intensive-care beds do we need for our vulnerable populations, and how many do we have now? The scarcity portends a greater failing and a worse situation than what we are seeing in Italy, where lives are being lost because the country doesn't have the health care capacity.
...In short: Localize testing, federalize shutdowns and task the Army Corps of Engineers to expand hospital capacity. Andrew Cuomo

Il governatore Cuomo ha piazzato un punto fermo su una futura candidatura alla quale per il momento, come tiene sempre a ribadire, non starebbe affatto pensando.
In poche ore ha messo in evidenza l'inconsistenza della presidenza Trump, ha dato l'ennesimo schiaffo a De Blasio e ha lanciato un assist a Biden.
Prima o poi quel partito democratico, nel quale lo stesso Cuomo sembra un alieno, dovrà fare i conti con lui che è uomo di profonda esperienza e conoscenza del territorio che amministra.
L'Italia dovrebbe iniziare a pensare seriamente a costruire un canale stabile di comunicazione e collaborazione con un "personaggio" che può garantire un'alleanza proficua piuttosto che fare i propri interessi a spese del nostro Paese come è accaduto con certi presidenti amici (o presunti tali) nell'ultimo decennio.