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good afternoon everyone sorry to be a couple behind we'll get right at it I'm joined to my right by the woman who needs no introduction the Commissioner of the Department of Health Judy purser Kelly to her rights another person who needs very little introduction in the state's epidemiologist dr. Christina tan thank you both for being here the guy to my left who also does not need an introduction of the superintendent the State Police Colonel Pat Callahan director of the office of homeland security and preparedness jared maples is with us thank you before we get to the numbers I have a couple of announcements to lead with and both relate directly to the road back plan that we announced last week which will guide our restart and recovery first today I am signing an executive order to create the governor's restart and recovery advisory council this council will bring together leaders from various industry community and faith-based groups and institutions across our state quite literally hundreds of people to work in conduct in conjunction with the group that we announced last week the restart and Recovery Commission if you think of the restart and Recovery Commission as sort of the strategy then the Advisory Council will be the actual tactics and I suspect there'll be a spillage both ways I wouldn't be surprised to have tactics discussed by the Commission and I know that the council will also address strategy from time to time this is where the various voices of those on the ground in our small businesses in our communities of faith in our educational communities among many others will come together to advises on the issues from the very specific and local levels this is a boots on the ground real-world approach to how we move forward this council is as diverse smart and hardworking as New Jersey's economy was before the pandemic which is why they can help us get on and stay on our road back and as with everything we do they will be guided by our North Star to build an economy from the middle out from the bottom up and an economy that makes New Jersey stronger and fairer the Advisory Council will break into nine committees which will begin virtual meetings next week and as you can see the nine committees are facilities and construction government health care Main Street manufacturing and supply chain professional services social services and faith tourism and entertainment and transportation and infrastructure we understand that we need a smart and granular approach to recovery reopening the restaurants and boardwalk shops down on the shore is far different from for example restarting retail in downtown Morristown Lambertville or Collingswood or anywhere else moreover the Advisory Council will not only help us gather the local intelligence we need to get our economy running again but its members will help us create the framework for coping with our new long-term economic realities I have asked Secretary of Education dr. zakiya Smith Ellis New Jersey Economic Development Authority CEO Tim Sullivan and choose New Jersey president and CEO Jose Lozano to serve as the co-chairs of this Advisory Council and I thank them as well as all those who have raised their hands to be a part of this effort in advance for all the work they will be doing in the coming weeks and months to ensure a strong and equitable recovery second I am pleased to announce that the community testing sites at Bergen Community College and PNC Bank Arts Center which we established in partnership with FEMA and the US Department of Health and Human Services will provide tests to certain asymptomatic New Jersey residents we asked asymptomatic individuals to contact a healthcare provider to make sure that they agree that you should be going and getting a test and that is to keep the numbers down that is critical so that testing is available for our frontline workers in vulnerable populations in addition to the symptomatic persons who have been tested from day one there to that effect where resources are strained testing for the asymptomatic will be prioritized for asymptomatic healthcare workers and first responders personnel in congregate living settings and New Jersey residents who have been in close contact with an individual who has tested positive for Kovan 19 expanding access is you've heard Judy and me say I think I could say on countless occasions to testing is one of our key principles for getting New Jersey firmly on the road back to restart and recovery by building out our testing capacity we can instill confidence among our residents that we are in front of the response and winning the fight against kovat 19 this expansion is a step forward for our testing program in this I've noted over the past several days and as of Judy we will have much more on this topic as well as the contact tracing infrastructure early next week I hope very early next week in the meantime I wish to remind everyone that there are 122 testing sites across our state a complete list of those open to the public can be found on our information hub it covered 19 NJ gov slash testing and your primary care practitioner can direct you to one of the many privately operated sites as well now let's turn our attention if we can to the overnight numbers yesterday we received an additional 1985 positive test results for a current statewide total of 135 thousand four hundred and fifty-four we continued to see it this chart says it well to see the daily counts of new cases leveling and the rate of positivity among those who have been tested continues to decrease as well you could see it there and that is an average statewide duty of 28 percent that's the spot rate for specimens my eyes are failing me collected on May 4th and you've got it in Judy's got this even more importantly at a more granular regional level not just North Central and South so when you're going through your remarks you may want to give a little bit more color around that that's going as you could see folks in absolutely the right direction so this again looks it shows the positivity and we promised to show you this the positivity right when we show you the daily rate or the spot testing rate we've been reminding you for now a number of weeks that the the number that we've been historically referring to is a cumulative number that includes every test back from day one and as you could see this is decreased significantly over the past weeks and currently at about 28% the map will turn to that we have been regularly turning to continues to show slowing rates of spread across the state and that is a very positive sign we need that entire map to be that very light color and then we will reboot it and try to achieve an even lighter color in our hospitals the number of patients currently being treated for Co vyd 19:00 continues to fall steadily as you can see this is a decrease of 1,000 from last Friday and as we see the number of hospitalizations across our healthcare systems regionally continues to also trend down including in the South our field medical stations reported 33 patients last night and staying on the topic of our field medical stations for a moment today we're announcing that the station at the Meadowlands Expo Center will stand down over the weekend with its operations transferring to the East Orange general hospital site which just completed construction in which several of us the three of us at least toured a few weeks ago since its opening the Secaucus site has admitted 268 patients 251 have been discharged the items and supplies at the Secaucus field medical station will be placed in storage by the Office of Emergency Management for rapid deployment elsewhere as needed and again we've talked to you about resiliency this is an example of keeping those those supplies in reserve from when we need them now this is in no way a sign that we can or will relax our vigilance it is a sign that the work that we have all been doing each and every one of us so far to slow the spread of kovat 19 and to reduce the number of patients and our hospitals is working and that that has put us in this position so keep up the great work and our long-term care facilities as you could see the numbers of positive cases continues to rise as well have sadly the deaths connected to these facilities continues to grow however as you've heard from us over the past frankly in one respect over the past two months but in particular over the past week we are confident that the efforts that we are taking will save lives the number of patients reported in either critical or intensive care continues to decrease as well and it currently stands as you can see at 1439 ventilator use currently stands at 1089 in this number two continues to decline there were 334 new kovat 19 hospitalizations yesterday but there were also 464 live patients discharged yesterday and as we look across the state do you have this by region or not they're mine you've got the we'll come back to that if we have it but we've seen north central and south in terms of both hospitalizations and discharges I would just say this remind everybody Judy I I know you'd want me to remind everyone we've made an enormous amount of progress but when you have 334 people over the past 24 hours going into a hospital for kovat 19 it's as good an example of any that we're not out of the woods yet I meant that an actual numbers that shark that we added but it's okay the most important point is is that we're not you know we're making huge progress but we're not in the end zone yet there you could see the breakdown that we started to show you yesterday new hospitalizations and new discharges that'll give you some color behind the 334 going in and the 464 leaving so as I know it every day Judy as well the data from our hospitals continues to move in the right direction which is down but we also cannot overstate enough that even while we are pleased with this progress our hospital systems are dealing with far more patients than they would otherwise be in any other year and the stress on our healthcare system well certainly in lessening is still there only we have the power to push these numbers down further and we've got an extraordinary job to date we need to keep working with those two things in night mind Public Health creates economic health and the data determines dates remember these as you put on your face covering to enter the supermarket or when you keep a social distance from others when you're out for a walk in your neighborhood these practices are working and you've done an extraordinary job folks let's keep it up Public Health creates economic health and the data determines dates with that with great sadness we are reporting another 162 more precious brothers and sisters who have passed from Kovan nineteen complications and our statewide total is now eight thousand nine hundred and fifty two and by the way folks if there are any revisions to that number Judy and Christina I suspect will be in violent agreement that number only goes up and not down as we parse through the enormity of this crisis and again even with the positive news from our Hospital there are still families and communities who are coping with the absolute worst news let's remember several of those who have passed first up let's get George areas George Martin from Hamilton in Mercer County handsome guy there he is George graduated from Hamilton High School West as a member of the class of 1949 he served in the US Air Force during the Korean conflict and later in the New Jersey air national guard he worked at the globe porcelain company before establishing and being president of Joseph steinort and company a post he held until his retirement in 1995 George was a fixture in Hamilton which by the way as you all know is among our largest communities in the entire state she served on numerous boards and committees and was a past treasurer of the Hamilton Township Lions Club it was a longtime member of the Hamilton Township rotary and a member of the American Legion Post number 31 of Hamilton Township George was also a member of the Masonic fraternity and gothic fraternal Lodge number 270 and was grand marshal of the Grand Lodge of New Jersey from 1983 to 1984 state Grand Master from 1992 to 1993 and he served on the board of the Masonic charity foundation from 1984 to 1995 sitting as its president in 1996 only four weeks before George passed he lost his wife of 67 years there she is Joyce to Alzheimer's disease bless them both he leaves his sister-in-law Dorothy would a along with his nephew Scott with whom I had the honor of speaking yesterday and Keith Turner and their families George a life well-lived thank you for your service to our nation and we will keep you and Joyce in our prayers this is sitting Shonda Denise Stokes from East Orange New Jersey she was a longtime employee of NJ Transit as both a us operator and a Depot master but Shanda was and this is how I met Shonda was also Reverend Stokes in ordained minister at the new psalmist Worship Center in Newark under the leadership of overseer and my dear friend Reverend Brian Ali she faithfully served as a minister praise team member preacher and missionary before joining the team in NJ Transit's Shonda was a licensed beautician she was also a world traveler who loved fashion and you could see that as if I had to say that and lived out her faith in Reverend Ali's words and I quote the pastor she gave unselfishly to others and lived her life to the fullest Shonda leaves behind her husband of 35 years Archie who I also had the honor of meeting way back when with Shonda at new psalmist and I had the honor as I say of speaking with him yesterday and reminiscing she was a wife mother grandmother daughter sister cousin niece coworker and friend may God bless her and everyone she touched and finally today let's remember a Saila heigh-ho who we lost at the age of 92 born and raised in Cuba a sailor her husband Arielle and four children came to the United States in 1962 to escape Fidel Castro and communism soon after arriving in Miami the Asbury Park Press badarian Presbyterian Church sponsored their relocation from Miami to New Jersey on the first freedom flight to the state in Cuba a sailor was a teacher for 18 years and she continued in education as a teacher's aide at Asbury park's Bond Street school until she retired a sailor is now reunited with her husband Arielle and their son Arielle jr. among other beloved family she leaves behind her daughter's Mirta who with whom I had the great honor of speaking yesterday Alicia and gladdie she also leaves nine grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren we send them our deepest condolences and we thank Acela for her years of helping Asbury Park students and for an extraordinary life god bless you ma'am so these are the lives that kovat 19 has taken from us just a few I wish we could speak about every single one they were the faces that we would see every day and they must remain in our thoughts we cannot think of the toll of Kovan 19 only in economic or mathematical terms but also in its most basic human terms we have now lost nearly 9,000 of our fellow residents in all of World War two which I will speak to in a moment we lost 12,600 we know we will lose many more but how many and whether we mark another solemn milestone we do not wish to pass is again overwhelmingly up to us please please please keep practicing your social distancing keep wearing a face covering when you're out in public there is no cure for kovat 19 there is no proven therapeutic at least yet we only there's no vaccine we only have social distancing face coverings washing hands with soap and water the basic stuff social distancing or social solidarity as we've called it here before is all we have to save lives we're saving them but we need folks to save more before I wrap I'd like to acknowledge as we do every day some of the New Jerseyans who are helping us through this crisis one small act of kindness at a time in these these stories speak to our Jersey spirit in our Jersey values and by the way you all have been terrific and sharing these stories with us and I ask you to keep doing so by using the hashtag NJ thanks you on social media we're all in after all we're all of us together first let's me
t Joe mendick of Westfield about a year ago to celebrate the fourth of July and you could see it right there Joe painted a wooden shipping pallet that he had to represent our flag but as kovat 19 raced across our state Joe thought we could use a little more American spirit and began designing and painting more patriotically themed pallets he put each up for sale for $50 with the proceeds going to the businesses in downtown Westfield with his wife Audrey who's with him there and their children helping Joe has now raised more than seven thousand dollars and more orders are coming in so to you Joe and your family New Jersey thanks you for not only supporting West fields business community but for reminding us why we're all proud to be Americans and this is Tanisha Brunson Malone a forensic technician at Hackensack University Medical Center and that means Tanisha performs the autopsies and oversees pickups by funeral homes of the patients who have passed and she oversees the refrigerated trucks that comprise the hospital's temporary morgue what a solemn set of duties what makes Tanisha even more special is the daily routine she has adopted during this emergency every day she makes a stop at a nearby flower shop to purchase yellow flowers just as you see in that picture hopefully she hopes everyday daffodils but carnations will do apparently as well and when she enters her work she places a solitary flower with each new person who had passed from Kovan nineteen from the day before it is a quiet but powerful gesture it ensures the dignity of those who have passed a reminder that someone will be there to remember them even when their families could not be there to say goodbye so to you Tanisha you for reminding us all of our common humanity and for ensuring that those we lost are not forgotten god bless you finally I want to note that today is the 75th anniversary of VE Day the day that World War two came to an end in the European theater having defeated Adolf Hitler and his fascist ideology as we fight this war think back to that greatest generation which fought in that water in all of its theaters and quite literally saved the world in their honor I have signed an executive order for our flags to also remain at half-staff today for them but even while VE Day kicked off many celebrations in its wake some of the greatest horrors the world has ever known were exposed the depth and breadth of the Holocaust and the depravity of fascism the world vowed never again unfortunately today those words sometimes appear to be fading especially now some misguided people even in our own state are taking to calling the necessary efforts we have undertaken to save lives and stop the spread of kovat 19 as fascism across the nation we have seen other freely elected leaders of both parties by the way demeaned and depicted as Hitler himself not only is this entirely an entirely disgusting false equivalence it is ignorant and it is repugnant it is ignorant of history and the horrific toll of fascism that is counted in the tens of millions who were killed by its megalomaniacal leaders led by Hitler but not only Hitler 20 million soldiers 6 million Jews and millions of others in death camps and untold millions of civilians words matter and when the word fascism or words like it is Ray the Nazi slogans are used by people who claim to be patriotic Americans to protest against freely elected leaders whether here or elsewhere across the nation it should give us pause it is our solemn duty to uphold the legacy as New Jerseyans and as Americans of that generation which fought valiantly to preserve the freedoms of hundreds of millions to live up to the rights of people today to protest our sacrosanct that's not in doubt but so should our history so should decency as our greatest generation slips from us as survivors from the Holocaust slip from us whether from age or as we have seen tragically from covet 19 we cannot let the lessons they taught us slip away with them never forget never again that said please help me welcome the woman who needs no introduction the Commissioner of the Department of Health Judy personally Thank You governor good afternoon well every day we highlight the health impact of kovat 19 to our state and the economic realities for many of our residents as you know have been devastating the Department of Health along with the Department of Human Services are working to ensure food assistance support for low-income communities is still accessible through this epidemic so I want to remind you the Department of the department's women in infants children program and J WIC that serves pregnant postpartum and breastfeeding women as well as infants and children under the age of five is still available to our residents new participants can apply for WIC services remotely by visiting with WIC NJ gov / participant portal / there is no need to be physically present at a week agency current participants can continue to receive the benefits by having three months worth of checks mailed to their homes participants who are quarantined and unable to leave their homes to purchase foods can designate an emergency proxy who can cash their checks at a store on their behalf we've expanded food choices giving participants more flexibility in the brand and size of foods that they can buy at the store the department is working closely with their infant formula contractor to ensure formula supplies are fully stocked at stores we are also working closely with their authorized stores to ensure that limits placed on certain food items to customers are not placed on WIC recipients and we are preparing for the farmers market programs with modifications including the mailing of checks to participants conducting remote certifications and training new farmers remotely the Department of Human Services their program and J snap provides money directly to individuals and families who need help affording groceries their agency has made some important changes to NJ snap to better serve residents during this kovat nineteen public health emergency notably Human Services has distributed an extra one hundred and sixty one hundred and six excuse me million and additional benefits to snap recipients since since the start of the emergency Human Services is also ensuring that everyone whose benefits were up for renewal in March and April and are due in May or June will be extended for six months this means no individual's SNAP benefits will be ended for not completing the renewal they are also making it easier to apply for snap during this emergency by waiving the required interview and the hard copy signature on applications to reduce the need for face-to-face interactions so please visit NJ helps dot org to learn more and apply for my daily report as the governor has mentioned the hospitals reported 4605 hospitalizations of covered 19 individuals or persons under investigation and there are 1439 individuals in critical care 76% are of ICU patients are on ventilators we see that the hospitalizations now are declining across all three regions of the state last evening two hospitals in the central region were on full divert the governor reviewed the new cases and deaths reported today as part of our deaths today and sadly we are reporting the death of a child who had an underlying medical condition in order to protect the privacy of the child in the family at this time we will not be releasing further details our thoughts and prayers are with the family in terms of deaths the breakdown of deaths by race and ethnicity are just about the same white 52.4% black 19.3% hispanic 17.5% asian 5.4 percent other 5.4 percent there are 514 long-term care facilities and assisted living facilities in the state with kovat 19 cases there are 25,000 254 covered 19 cases in our long-term care facilities at the state veteran homes among a census of 673 residents 362 have tested positive and there's a total of 127 unchanged from yesterday at our state psychiatric hospitals with the census of 1250 a hundred and seventy-seven patients have tested positive and we are sadly reporting another death at ancora for a total of 12 deaths at our state psychiatric hospitals as the governor shared our cumulative positivity rate of those tested is 37 point 37 percent the Daly percent positivity as of May 4th is as follows in New Jersey overall on May 4th 28% the Central West Region 35.5% the Northwest region 29.4 Central East 27.4 northeast 26.7 and south 26.7 that concludes my report as always stay connected stay safe and stay healthy and happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there thank you you're shaming me on the happy Mother's Day I keep forgetting it I thank God we're together tomorrow to give myself one more chance listen Judy I think the the same six counties are still locus of the most amount of cases that precious four-year-old it's unfathomable is the first fatality of anyone in the state from covered 19 related complications under the age of 18 and as Judy said we're going to keep the details of that as you would want us to out of respect of privacy and the the spot positivity zanna's Judy said as of May 4th which I assume is when the specimens collected right it's still even though we Christina you'll want to even though we have said only today that we're gonna begin to slowly open up to some asymptomatic testing and we're gonna have a lot more to say about testing sometime in the next few days it's still remarkable that even those the highest number I think you said was 35 on spot testing which means essentially two out of three who are historically gonna be overwhelmingly symptomatic have gone in and have come back without with a negative test so we should probably take some continued comfort in that had an addition thank you for your report and thank you for your extraordinary leadership Pat in addition to your daily burden of compliance PPE infrastructure could you give us 20 seconds on what looks like some nasty weather at least for some part of the state tonight thanks governor good afternoon I would classify it as nasty the four northern counties are gonna be under a freeze warning from 11 o'clock tonight to nine o'clock the morning tomorrow morning that's Sussex Warren hundred-and and Morris the Northwest counties may experience up to an inch of snow and some minor coastal flooding may happen but high winds through tomorrow from right now through Saturday evening so just to be mindful of that I know d-o-t and Commissioner Luka jetties on on top of that with regards to compliance Newark issued 54 yo violations overnight Clinton Township had a subject who had obscene posters out and was being obscene to passing traffic traffic he was cited for yo violation Prospect Park a group of folks refused to disperse the gathering in one person organizing that was cited Parsippany a police officer went to the call with in response to somebody committing criminal mischief fit of residence with a hammer that subject refused to put the hammer down when finally being placed under arrest the defendant began coughing and spitting and acting irrationally indicating to the officer that he hopes that he gets Corona in Dover a gathering of approximately over 50 people at a church had gathered they had been warned several times and one of the subjects there coordinating that was cited in Irvington another host of a party of 15 people gather more was also cited that's all I have got could I ask you a favor can we please drop the hammer on the hammer head what what ridiculous behavior again your your most worried about the Ford northern counties and really after 11:00 tonight that's it at 11:00 and nine freeze warning that the National Weather Service put in place I'm a I'm a Warren County right girl living it keep an eye on that so the fact that we haven't talked about brining this winter it's amazing but here we are and here we are in May dusting of snow potential yeah I would say up to an inch in those four North northern counties thank you for that we're gonna start over here but before we do Matt's got the microphone today Martellus here as always thanks for being here everyday a couple of logistical points will be with you tomorrow at one o'clock where we can officially wish you again a Happy Mother's Day please help me remember Judy we will not be with you on Sunday unless you unless we let you know otherwise we'll be electronic and on paper and we just made a decision to move Monday to the one o'clock slot we had considered moving it later there's a white house vtc please bear with us we might be a few minutes late if I had to predict but we're gonna shoot for one o'clock on Monday as well so thanks again we'll see you back here tomorrow at 1:00 Matt Plotkin our chief council's joined us thank you Matt for being here and with that Elise good afternoon hi good afternoon matt is here just in time for this question from Sean Wright Mayer at MJ spotlight John says some lawmakers say that all or part of your emergency borrowing plan is not constitutional what is your response to them are you getting an opinion from the state attorney general that you could make public to settle any constitutional concerns and my question is regarding the asymptomatic testing how will the worried well be weeded out and how many asymptomatic tests can be conducted each day and do you expect to expand the asymptomatic testing to either bigger population or a bigger geographic region yes so let's start with Matt and then Judy and I can tackle the testing question Matt constitutional question before the house from John Wright Mayer not going to get into back and forth on the what some what members of the legislature have said we feel very confident that the plan is constitutional both on the text of the statute and based on precedent from prior cases I mean I said comment on this and then ask you to come in text to the constitution I'm not sure if I said statute but I'm sorry text of the Constitution okay thank you I would just echo that we wouldn't be doing this if we didn't think we was constitutionally feasible so we've had a let me make a couple Elise comments that are sort of more general and then asked Judy to come in and correct the record a couple of things number one we're in a much different place than we were two months ago or frankly even two to four weeks ago on testing and we're gonna go through we probably could have told you about testing as early as today in terms of the plan going forward but Judy and greater Minds prevailed and really made the the very compelling point the testing and contact tracing kind of go hand in hand and that we should do those together so early week we will do that so again what I'm saying today has some amount of relevance what Judy's saying today has a lot of relevance but there you may hear and you will hear sort of the plan going forward secondly and Pat will correct the record here but we were consistently not maxing out of late at either PNC or Bergen Community and so this is a chance for us to dip our toe in the water and I think you heard me say this so you you're still if you're symptomatic you're still obviously going to be a priority but you also heard that we've got a symptomatic priorities as well so congregant working in a congregate living space health care workers in front first line responders at a minimum in and the other sort of Belton suspender we're putting on this it would be really good if folks could check with their health care provider first so that you know just get a thousands of people showing up we don't want the the boat to be swamped but that's sort of the order of priorities and we want to try it and see how it works for a few days and and again this is at the moment that we're also going to be unveiling a much broader sort of master testing plan going forward Judy anything you want to throw in there before we made the decision to go forward with increasing testing every day we look at the capacity at the testing sites and also the capacity at the labs and then the availability of test kits and the availability of PPE so you put that all together we feel we can expand testing and every day we will be looking at this and our testing plan that we will reveal next week which will look at popula
ions and how we're going forward takes all of that into consideration Judy I forgot the other priority category is someone who has been affirmatively in contact with someone whose path tested positive for covered 19 thank you for that Nikita how are you aye governor mom I hope you are too I have three questions for you today first I'm wondering if you spoken to Vice President Biden's since I last asked the second I want to know based on what you've read and heard do you believe the sexual assault allegations leveled at the former vice president by Tara Reed and then lastly are you concerned that those allegations will help Trump get elected or that they'll hurt Democratic cabinets down the ballot and you know I literally and I'm not trying to be rude I have not spoke with a vice president although our teams are speaking regularly and he and I just haven't gotten one scheduled and I've got literally no insight or no comment on questions two and three thank you sir do you have something on the back no you're good can we come across thank you hold on one sec there we go governor Murphy the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a report following an inspection at Andover subacute to facility they found numerous instances of non-compliance that they say led to the transmission of Cova in the facility and that caused or likely caused injury or death to residents what's your reaction to the reports findings and do you believe Attorney General gray wall should open an investigation into the closing of the George Washington Bridge as a violation of a state statute over improper use of a government authority thank you thank you for both questions Judy I'm gonna say something on the first piece first of all I've got no comment on the second that's a decision for the Attorney General I've got no insight on that at all on the first one I think it's fair to say and that will correct our record if we get it wrong that the Attorney General has already he sat here and he has established an investigation and I think we have to let that play out is that fair to say Judy yeah I would just say as a general matter Judy and I have said time and again that the inconsistent performance by operators in the long-term care facility space is extremely disappointing now I'll use a more diplomatic that's a diplomatic word but the there's an unevenness and folks out there have lived this everything from what they did actually inside of facilities to communication to loved ones and everything in between it's why the Attorney General is investigating it's why Judy I think started on March 6th as I recall with a whole series of directives it's why we've brought in a nationally-recognized team to help us it's why the National Guard is that end over subacute I think as we speak with 22 folks I think Judy you said so we've taken a whole range of steps in the industry but I'll leave the specifics of that particular location to the Attorney General's investigation Thank You Brent good afternoon give us one sec just the color to things to clarify before I get real into my questions so do you need to prove to a doctor that you've had no symptoms to be tested if you're asymptomatic the the death of the four-year all anything else location how wary does that make you some warehouse workers are saying your executive orders don't specify which retailers can go online and operate warehouses does that mean any retailer can do so because a company like rent the one runway is selling gallons and makeup and their employees are complaining two other quick lenses the State Health Department issued a letter March 31st telling resident nurse ins they could not require residents to be tested for the virus before allowing them to return to the hospital was that a mistake not to make not to test discharge patients and other states have relaxed standards for getting a driver's license do you think New Jersey may do the same let's go I'm not sure I either understood or remembered all these proof to do what to get tested if you're asymptotic a doctor to say you're asymptomatic but you should go doctor's note I'm not sure we're no we're not requiring that but we want some we want folks so this is a little bit scouts honor here we want you to check in with your doctor before you actually show up is that fair to say yeah we definitely feel it's important if you're going to be tested to be connected to a primary care physician a medical home because what if you may be asymptomatic if you turn out positive you want that connectivity to a health care system whether it's the FQHC HC in your neighborhood we just feel that's that's an important aspect of testing on the four-year-old other than Judy what you said which was the Blessed four-year-old had an underlying medical condition that's all we're gonna say on that as I've known I mean it's the we've lost a Blessed another blessed life in this case it's unfathomable that it's a four-year-old it's the only fatality we've had under the age of 18 and the Blessed four-year-old had an underlying medical condition that's it's we're gonna leave it at that your question on retailers come on back Matt hold on hold on Allah he's behind you oh yeah someone in my office is working on a story about how Rent the Runway a company that rents gowns and makeup is allowing the rent warehouse to operate because your executive orders not specific about which warehouses can operate or not like Amazon sells essential goods but is there any can you specify I've got nothing specific to say on our last mat to weigh in on this on rent to runway we have said that we're looking and we hear we get a lot of incoming zhan non-essential retail which we respect but we've also we're still in a stay at home order and we we got a as we take those steps to reopen we got to do it right and you want to add to that met the executive orders haven't closed warehouses period there's in person retail that's not essential as closed warehouses have to abide by the strict social distancing guidelines that were put in place through various orders that we've issued if they're not there's a complaint process and we'd be happy to look into it we're gonna have to bring the microphone back because I don't know it helped the March 31st letter I didn't get that the March 31st letter it sold nursing homes they could not require residents to be tested for the virus before allowing them to return to the hospital was that a mistake not to test discharge patients I'm not aware of the letter Judy I apologize I think the specificity in that letter was we were having difficulties with readmissions from the hospitals remembering that the the nursing homes are the residents homes and they were requiring the hospital to do a confirmatory test after the resident was allowed back into the room we said you really can't require that that's a medical decision that was made would be made by the hospital but if they had tested positive for kovat 19 or if they were a person under investigation you should cohort them appropriately if you cannot cohort appropriately or you do not have PPE or you do not have the staffing to take care of the patient then then the individual would have to be placed in one of the nursing homes that we had worked with to provide beds for that person until they could go back to what we consider their residence I got the the wonder of having a personal device the Commissioner of the Motor Vehicles Commission sue Fulton has weighed in with the following answer to your last question Georgia and Wisconsin are letting teenagers drive without a road test we are not considering that motor vehicle crashes are the number one cause of death among teenagers we'll leave it at that Matt thank you Mike is that you see you good to see you thanks governor just to follow up on something that you have said today about the asymptomatic testing is that just at Bergen Community College and PNC and does that mean anything you got the HHS waiver that you mentioned before yeah it's at Bergen Community and PNC only okay I just had a few others yep it's on testing when you announced after your meeting at the White House that the they would be sending 550,000 tests I understand that only 35,000 have arrived so far do you know why that is and is that your expectation did you expect him to come over some amount of I'm glad you raised us because I this was my fault I misspoke there was a delivery schedule that was agreed upon at the White House and they are delivering at least if not more than they had promised on the at the rates of delivery was that fair to say yeah so I'm not I'm not concerned about that and just to follow up the effort to double testing can you say how that's going where we are where are you're gonna hear about that early week I'll leave it till then for the Commissioner Commission on the demographic information that you give every day is that the percentages are those just for the change that day or is that over the overall figure if that question makes sense when you say it's like 52 percent white and 19 percent black every day those Democrats that's just the change or cumulative cumulative total amount of deaths thanks Mike John you get to take us out hold on good afternoon thanks man the underlying condition for the four year old was that Kawasaki disease and there's there any update on the the National Guard at the long-term care is it very sill just at Andover already expect them to go this week into other places and governor on the Advisory Council the announce today what specific data will they be using to determine dates of opening you know there was what specific metrics do you want them to be using to guide these decisions and will their work be public with in other words will we have access to their email will they do issue reports look much like a transition team issues reports can we see that stuff and can you say exactly where you stand on beach openings you say you'd like to have them we expect possibly by Memorial Day what you're thinking right now and how how another the beaches are can by the municipal government how does that square with the EEO that says the state order is the state order you good with that okay I think we've said all that we're gonna say about the Blessed four-year-old we've lost can we you'll kind of leave it there folks yeah let's let's let's leave it there National Guard is at Andover subacute today and we fully expect that they'll be in multiple facilities sooner than later is that fair to say Judy yeah I think we're expecting over a hundred I believe we're identifying facilities for them to kind of go into and help yeah I think they're going to be deployed based on a needs assessment that Judy and team are working on as we speak they I don't have a good answer for you on whether or not there will their work Republican will they file reports I'm not sure where they're gonna be filing reports but of the council Matt do we have any any guidance on that they don't we're still working out what form their product will be in but principally they're gonna be advising just generally based on their understanding of the industries that they operate in and they'll be based on their calls as we will ask them to do what we have been doing which is to base this on balls and strikes the facts before them we had matt has been associated thanks to me I give you one sample there's a faith and social services group to this Matt has been involved with three faith leaders today talking about very specific not even requests but but realities and how that matches up about with what what we can or cannot do so expect it to be you know I say tactical with enormous respect we need real granular on-the-ground advice and it'll be based on the facts beaches I asked for the the out forecasts there's no day in the next two weeks that's going to be above a high of 60 something so I would normally say that with a heavy heart but that probably gives us a little bit more latitude but this is also a good opportunity for me to say a couple things about both beaches and parks and we'll we're going to be heading out here in a moment again everybody you were extraordinary last weekend I don't think the weather is going to come remotely close to what we had last weekend but would like everybody if you're in a park County State if you're golfing whatever it might be please you know keep doing what you've been doing on beaches John what we've said is this following is the following and we're if this is in process there are a number of of earlier feasible steps that we're looking at right now that will give guidance excuse me on some time over the next week or so would be my guess and beaches are on that list and so we're trying to we're trying to come up with a paradigm that is that is consistent with not not necessarily to the the letter but consistent with at least the mindset that we approached parks with so for instance and Pat spoke to this we limited parking at the parks by 50 percent and so that's the notion of capacity is something that we're looking carefully at social distancing clearly masks I think Judy is I'm the biggest mask guy maybe be only behind you but that may be hard to enforce on a beach but so we're trying to so this is not necessarily exactly verbatim what we did here we'll do here or do there rather but I will say this it is dependent upon folks need to understand that while my optimism is high by the time we get to Memorial Day and assuming the weather is broken in our in a good way it's subject to two really important footnotes for everybody to be thinking about number one the curves that we look at every day have got to continue improving if they turn against us there's no way we can responsibly take a step like opening beaches and secondly folks are just gonna have to accept just as you all have done brilliantly with parks that going to the beach will be an experience which will feel in some ways like it always has and in some ways like it never has and folks have to understand that we're gonna have to have steps in place that you know capacity social distancing that we just haven't your last question John was yes the executive orders are the that we promulgate are the ones that bind although at the same time these beaches other than Island Beach State Park are you know have a big dose of municipalities I will say the cooperation that we have in our deliberations patsies at Judy sees it Matt does as well with municipalities and counties up and down the shore as well as in our lake communities has been outstanding and I have a high degree of confidence that we will be where whenever wherever it is that we end up we will be in very good harmony you want to add some of that man just on the beaches specifically the order the governor's orders are the orders for the state in one of the order seas issued we explicitly delegated authority to localities to address beaches thank you I messed up this is a homemade this is a gift to me a homemade mask of good Governor Murphy here which cool I want to thank Judy pretty Kelly dr. Christina tan for your leadership not just today but every day Colonel Patrick Callahan likewise director maples Matt plaque in the whole team again a couple of things housekeeping number one we'll be back here one o'clock tomorrow look forward to seeing you then happy Mother's Day to everybody who may not be tuning in tomorrow Judy thank you for reminding us and thirdly folks keep doing what you're doing just extraordinary work with the exception of that very very small cadre of knuckleheads we are we're beating any other state in the nation in terms of social distancing staying at home and know that the reward for that is our confidence that we can take more steps responsibly and that at the same time give you the confidence that you're going to feel that you're gonna need to get back out there tomorrow I think we're gonna be joined by Judy's predecessor although you reach each other's predecessor Judy ran University Hospital while Sharif alcohol was the health commissioner and now Sharif is running University Hospital as Judy's the health commissioner I think Sharif is joining us tomorrow with representatives of the Red Cross to talk about plasma plasma donations th
reality around that as I said Sunday we will be by on the wire written in early week we hope to have to put before you in fact not hope we will have to put before you not just tweaking testing as Elyse asked about asymptomatic and and Brent asked as well but with the sort of the master plan of testing and contact tracing and the infrastructure that underpins it going forward thank you all god bless you all you
