CDC Issues Domestic Travel Advisory for New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut Due to extensive community transmission of COVID-19 in the area, CDC urges residents of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut to refrain from non-essential domestic travel for 14 days effective immediately. This Domestic Travel Advisory does not apply to employees of critical infrastructure industries, including but not limited to trucking, public health professionals, financial services, and food supply. The Governors of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut will have full discretion to implement this Domestic Travel Advisory.
A site on Lake George has offered its facilities to New York state should a North Country temporary hospital site be needed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Post Star, The Silver Bay YMCA Conference and Family Retreat Center on the west shore of Lake George in Hague, NY, made this offer earlier this week. Read the story here.
New York State will stay on PAUSE through April 15th. That means the non-essential workforce is directed to continue to work from home until at least April 15th. NY State will re-evaluate every two weeks.
Pharmacies will now offer free home delivery to New Yorkers. The state’s major pharmacy chains have agreed to offer free home delivery to help reduce long lines for prescriptions at their facilities.
The USNS Comfort, a U.S. Navy hospital ship, is expected to arrive in New York Harbor on Monday. It is a massive facility with 1,000 beds, 12 operating rooms, a pharmacy and a medical laboratory. It is fully staffed with 1,200 members of the US Navy. The Comfort’s beds will be used for non-Coronavirus patients to free up hospital capacity.
“We will stop at nothing to protect the people of our country.” – @POTUS #COVID19 #USNavyAlwaysThere pic.twitter.com/BMoZwIjVrz
— U.S. Navy (@USNavy) March 28, 2020
Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson All Smiles in L.A. After Bout with Coronavirus https://t.co/C1SU7ibSBr
— TMZ (@TMZ) March 27, 2020