Cuomo: 'How much is a human life worth?'

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo breaks down the coronavirus death projection rates.
Posted 5/5/2020, 8:17:06 PM Updated 5/5/2020, 8:23:06 PM

When you accelerate the reopening you will have more people

coming in contact with other people

You're relaxing social distancing

The more people in contact with other people the higher

the infection rate of the spread of the virus

The more people get infected the more people die

We know that and that's why the projection models are

going up

There's a cost of staying closed

There's also a cost of reopening quickly

That is the hard truth that we are all dealing

with and let's be honest about it and let's be

open about it

And let's not camouflage the actual terms of the discussion

that we're having and the question comes back to how