That is an intelligent division of labor - let each layer of government do what it does best.

Andrew Cuomo

I spoke to the president about the ship coming up and the four sites, I didnt speak to him about any quarantine, i havent had those conversations, I dont even know what that means.

I dont even know what that means. I dont know how that could be legally enforceable and from a medical point of view I dont know what you would be accomplishing, but I can tell you I dont even like the sound of it, not even understanding what it is I dont like the sound of it.

This will be an enforceable quarantine, but hopefully we wont need it.

There is no other way for us to get these ventilators, we've tried everything else. The only way we can obtain these ventilators is from the federal government. Period.

FEMA says' we're sending 400 ventilators,' really ? What am I going to do with 400 ventilators when I need 30,000 ? You pick the 26,000 who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators.

New York City is the natural for it to increase because of the density, westchester was an anomaly -- that whole New Rochelle situation.

Currently, when states are doing it, we are competing against other states. In some ways we're savaging other states. I'm trying to buy masks. I'm competing with California and Illinois and Florida.

I don't think you can really do a policy like that just in one part of the state. So I don't think it works, as a matter of fact, I'm going so far that I don't even think you can do a statewide policy.

This is exactly what they do. Deploy the Army Corps of Engineers to come work with states to build temporary medical facilities. Get us backup beds so when the hospital is overwhelmed, we can have some of the people who are in the hospital beds go to a backup medical facility, if you don't do it, you know what is going to happen : You're going to overwhelm the hospitals.

We are way behind in testing, there'll be plenty of time to do a retrospective. We need to increase testing as quickly as possible and get the volume as high as possible. The more people you test, the more people you can isolate.

This is about science, this is about data.

This will be a period of disruption for the local community, it is a dramatic action, but it is the largest cluster in the country. And this is literally a matter of life and death.

If you are not a member of the vulnerable population then there is no reason for excess anxiety.

These are people who go for an in-person federal interview with all sorts of background information.