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New York, five other states unite to plan post-coronavirus reopening

By
Bernadette Hogan and
Aaron Feis
Published April 13, 2020
Updated April 13, 2020, 4:35 p.m. ET

Gov. Andrew Cuomo teamed up with the leaders of five other Northeastern states on Monday to form a regional task force aimed at a gradual but thoughtful reopening of the economy beyond the coronavirus.

“Everyone is very anxious to get out of the house, get back to work, get the economy moving,” said Cuomo in remarks to the press before a public conference call with the governors.

“What the art form is going to be here is doing that smartly and doing that productively and doing that in a coordinated way,” he said. “No one has done this before.”

For a smoother and more uniform approach, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Rhode Island will form a panel to share knowledge.

Each state will have three members — a head public health official, a chief economic development officer and the governor’s chief of staff — on the 18-person group, which will begin working Tuesday to develop a “smart” plan “ASAP,” said Cuomo.

“You can’t do one without the other,” said Cuomo of restarting the economy while maintaining strict health policies to maintain hard-won positive momentum.

Garden State Gov. Phil Murphy stressed the importance of states staying on the same page.

“If the protocols on one side of the Hudson for a restaurant or a bar are different than the other … you could have inadvertent, unintended consequences, which could be grave,” said Murphy.

Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut said it simply makes sense for states throughout the Northeast to work together, given the volume of people — including potential carriers of COVID-19 — who move back and forth among them on a given day.

“All of our pandemic here in Connecticut is all along that I-95, Metro-North corridor, where we have hundreds of thousands of people going back and forth,” said Lamont. “It’s the commuter corridor for us, but it’s also the COVID corridor, which is why it’s so important that we work together thoughtfully on this.”

Cuomo, Murphy and Lamont previously joined forces last month on a coordinated shutdown of non-essential businesses before the worst of the contagion hit.

Cuomo extended an open invitation Monday for other states to join the coalition.

With New York apparently turning a corner in its fight against the contagion, Cuomo has said the region can — and must — begin to reopen without risking a deadly relapse.

“It’s a false choice,” he said. “To move the economy forward, you have to address public health. To address public health, you have to be addressing the economic reactivation. You have to be doing both at once. They’re parallel tracks.”

Meanwhile Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that his state had joined with Oregon and Washington in a united front of their own.

The three Pacific Coast states came to terms “on a shared vision for reopening their economies and controlling COVID-19 into the future,” Newsom’s office announced.