Video, Audio, Photos, & Rush Transcript: Governor Hochul Announces Winter Plan 2.0 and Updates New Yorkers on State’s Progress Combating COVID-19 – ny.gov
VIDEO of the event is available on YouTube here and in TV quality (h.264, mp4) format here.
AUDIO of the event is available here.
PHOTOS of the event are available on the Governor’s Flickr page.
A rush transcript of the Governor’s remarks is available below:
Governor Hochul: Good morning and happy New Year! Delighted to say goodbye to 2021 in anticipation of a much better, much healthier, much safer 2…….
VIDEO of the event is available on YouTube here and in TV quality (h.264, mp4) format here.
AUDIO of the event is available here.
PHOTOS of the event are available on the Governor’s Flickr page.
A rush transcript of the Governor’s remarks is available below:
Governor Hochul: Good morning and happy New Year! Delighted to say goodbye to 2021 in anticipation of a much better, much healthier, much safer 2022. Thank you all for joining me on a holiday. My family and friends and staff do not know it’s a holiday, I thought I’d tell them it isn’t. It actually is a holiday. We’ll enjoy this more next year. And I’m joined by New York State’s incredible dream team, who are focused on this nonstop, and that is Kathryn Garcia, our Director of State Operations; Dr. Mary Bassett, our Department of Health Commissioner; Jackie Bray, the Division of Homeland Security Emergency Services Commissioner. Karen Keogh is also behind the scenes, making sure that all runs well to ensure that we have our operations smoothly running, which we do.
New Yorkers should know we are working around the clock to fight this surge. And as we hit this new year, it’s an also an opportunity to reflect and reset. And we’ve been saying for a long time, we were going to experience a very serious winter surge. You know, we talked about it over the first weekend in October, we talked about it again at the end of October, we talked about it again before Thanksgiving, we talked about how we on the very first day that Omicron was identified by the World Health Organization.
On November 26. We literally declared a State of emergency here in the State of New York, the first in the nation to make sure that we were prepared and had all the tools at our disposal to be able to proactively anticipate what was coming, but also to react when necessary.
So why I want to talk about a 2.0 plan, is simply a reminder that we’re heading into a new season. A new year. Kids are coming back to school, our hospitals are overstretched. And so we wanted to amplify the policies that have been working thus far, and also analyze where we’re going next. So let’s look at the data. It’s not a wave, like the waves of the past. And as we can talk about this, the wave, the numbers, the cases do continue to rise. There’s no disputing, state-wise, our numbers per a hundred thousand, which is really the best way to analyze …….
