Gov. Cuomo extends New York's stay-at-home order until June 13, but economy supposedly to open on May 28

Yaron Steinbuch
New York Post
Fri, 15 May 2020 20:18 UTC

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced that the state's stay-at-home order, which had been set to expire Friday, is being extended until June 13.

"Both travel-related cases and community contact transmission of COVID-19 have been documented in New York State and are expected to continue," the governor's executive order says in continuing the "New York State on PAUSE" policy, which was put in place in March.

"All enforcement mechanisms by state or local governments shall continue to be in full force and effect until June 13, 2020, unless later extended or amended by a future Executive Order," he added in the order signed Thursday.

With metrics trending in the right direction, Cuomo announced this week that Central New York had become the fifth of the state's 10 economic regions to qualify for the first phase of reopening once the statewide Pause order was set to expire at midnight Friday.

Four other regions — the North Country, the Southern Tier, the Mohawk Valley and the Finger Lakes — had already qualified by meeting all seven state criteria on hospital admissions, available beds, testing and tracing.

Comment: How is the economy supposed to open if people are still supposed to shelter in place? New Yorkers are confused too:

It's all total nonsense, as the following graphs should make clear (all data are for New York City - see here and here):

Reader Comments

Joyly · 2020-05-16T21:29:44Z

According to the graphs NY could have reopened 1st May. And it does not matter what recording method was used, it is only the trend that matters, and by 26th April it was clearly under control in terms of cases and deaths. What do these Governors get out of continuing this?