This archive report was first published on 22 April 2020.
Coronavirus in N.Y.C.: Latest Updates ¶
On Tuesday, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo met with President Trump at the White House to discuss the federal government's role in increasing testing capacity for the coronavirus and restarting the economy.
According to Cuomo, the meeting was a 'productive' step towards helping New York increase its testing capacity and eventually restart its economy. The governor said that President Trump was supportive of increasing testing capacity and providing more stimulus money to New York and other financially battered states.
At a news conference, Cuomo said that President Trump had committed to helping New York State double its testing capacity for both the coronavirus and antibody tests to 40,000 a day. However, Cuomo noted that it would take several weeks to achieve this goal, calling it an 'enormous undertaking.'
Other measures of the virus's spread in the state were also flat or falling, Cuomo said. The number of hospitalized patients fell for the eighth day in a row, and the number of newly admitted patients was the lowest in more than three weeks.
On Earth Day, several New York institutions are honoring the holiday's 50th anniversary online. The American Museum of Natural History has a festival that includes family workshops in botany and glacial physics, as well as a virtual flight to Venus and Mars that explores the solar system's 'Goldilocks zone' and what those planets teach us about climate change.
