With the legislature in agreement with the governor’s 212 billion dollar budget and just the formality of voting to be done, New York’s governor outlined highlights from the spending plan yesterday. A big part of that is spending on COVID programs. During his presentation, Andrew Cuomo said the global COVID crisis has created opportunity, but we haven’t turned the corner just yet, and it’s not just going to go away…
COVID-19 by the numbers now, here in Rockland, the total death count is unchanged since yesterday at 930. We’ve got 47 hospitalized confirmed with coronavirus, and 1,748 active cases. Our total case count is 44,503, that’s 119 more than Wednesday.