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Windham Journal The Daily Mail SEE PAGE A6 Copyright 2020, Columbia-Greene Media All Rights Reserved The nation’s fourth-oldest newspaper • Serving Greene County since 1792 Price $1.50 Volume 228, No. 81 THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020 n FORECASTWEATHER FOR HUDSON/CA TODAY TONIGHT FRI Relief leaves CMH uncertain By Abby Hoover half. Hospitals throughout advocate for fair and mean- Columbia-Greene Media the region are seeing expenses ingful federal and state assis- continue to increase as prices tance,” CMH spokesman Wil- Clouds and Cloudy with Cold with HUDSON — Columbia sunshine a little rain rain Memorial Health temporar- grow for supplies and person- liam Van Slyke said. ily furloughed approximately al protective equipment. State officials said Tuesday HIGH LOW 46 125 employees Tuesday from Also on Tuesday, the Sen- that will reopen by departments that have seen a ate passed a $484 billion COV- region, and elective surgeries 48 40 32 recent decrease in volume. ID-19 relief plan that includes and procedures will resume in These include employees aid for hospitals and small counties without significant Complete weather, A2 working in physicians’ offices, businesses, and funds to ex- risk. elective procedures, diag- pand testing. Reopening strategies have nostic testing, the emergency The measure allocates $75 not been announced for the n SPORTS room and Rapid Care. billion for hospital relief and Capital or Hudson Valley re- With the total number of could go to the House as early gions as of Wednesday. admissions to the hospital as Thursday. Starting April 28, elective also decreasing, CMH has “We are working closely CONTRIBUTED PHOTO seen revenue cut nearly in with our trade associations to See RELIEF A8 Columbia Memorial Health wants “fair federal and state assistance.” Cuomo outlines Fauci explains ‘new normal’ Not being able to attend ‘tracing army’ plan live events at stadiums PAGE B1 n NATION

Virus questions go unanswered COVID-19 continues to defy scientific inquiries PAGE A2 n THE SCENE See related story, NY to double testing capacity to 40,000, page A3

COURTESY OF GOV. ANDREW CUOMO’S OFFICE The state will work with former Mayor Michael Bloomberg to develop a contact tracing program to reduce the COVID-19 infection rate across the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday afternoon during a coronavirus briefing in the state Capitol. By Kate Lisa execute the new program. The contact Mike Bloomberg to create an unprec- that person to identify people they made Johnson Newspaper Corp. tracing program will be done in coordi- edented, nation-leading contact tracing contact with during their illness and in ALBANY — The state will develop nation with the downstate region as well program will do just that and serve as a the few days before symptoms began. a COVID-19 tracing program to con- as New Jersey and Connecticut. model for the rest of the nation.” Officials then alert their contacts about trol the coronavirus infection rate with “One of the most critical pieces of get- A contact tracing program of this scale their risk of infection and refer medical about $10 million from former New York ting to a new normal is to ramp up test- has not been implemented in New York providers to them. City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Gov. ing, but states have a second big task: To or anywhere in the United States. An People who are not ill are asked to stay Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. put together an army of people to trace expert panel will review the data, which home for 14 days to ensure they don’t A 1959 thriller Bloomberg, a 2020 Democratic presi- each person who tested positive, find could be replicated across the nation. spread COVID-19 to others, according to with a message dential primary candidate and his com- out who they contacted and then isolate The program will launch immediately. the ’s office. pany Bloomberg Philanthropies com- those people,” Cuomo said during his Contact tracing starts with a person in- Revisiting “Odds Against mitted $10.5 million to help build and daily briefing. “This partnership with fected with COVID-19 and interviewing See CUOMO A8 Tomorrow,” shot in Hudson PAGE A7 n INDEX Senate passes emergency COVID funding By Sarah Trafton Region A3 “I am pleased bipartisan Columbia-Greene Media Opinion A4 “There is more work ahead, including funding for state and leaders have made this need- ed clarification to make sure State/Nation A5 After running out of funds to local governments, particularly for counties and municipalities Obituaries A5 aid small businesses through our farmers will be eligible for Sports B1 its Economic Injury Disaster in rural areas like NY-19. such funds. Small businesses and family farms need assis- Classified B4-5 loans and Paycheck Protec- Our farms are essential to our rural way of life and are critical to tance immediately and this Comics/Advice B7-8 tion Program, the U.S. Small Business Administration is an- our local economy here in .” package ensures we do just On the web ticipating more funding from that. It also provides resources — U.S. REP. ANTONIO DELGADO, D-19 in support of our hospitals and www.HudsonValley360.com the federal government. Weighing in on the addi- funds for much-needed test- ing.” Twitter tional funding, U.S. Rep. Anto- legislation Tuesday to provide Protection Program. “Our farms are essential to Through the Paycheck nio Delgado, D-19, said small the SBA with an additional A new development with our rural way of life and are Follow: Protection Program, busi- businesses will need more $320 billion for the Paycheck this round of funding is that critical to our local economy @CatskillDailyMail nesses can apply for two-year Protection Program, $50 bil- small farmers will be eligible here in upstate New York,” help to rebound in the after- loans for up to $10 million. Facebook lion for its Disaster Loans for Economic Injury Disas- Delgado said in a statement. math of the COVID-19 pan- The funding can be used to www.facebook.com/ demic. Program and $10 billion for ter Loans for up to $2 million “They merit access to the same cover payroll, rent, utility and CatskillDailyMail/ “There is more work ahead, Economic Injury Disaster and emergency grants of up to resources our small business mortgage costs. The SBA will including funding for state loan grants. The SBA stopped $10,000. owners are provided under cover the first two months and local governments, par- accepting applications for Delgado advocated for the CARES Act. I called for the that are used for approved ex- ticularly for counties and mu- the programs about a week farmers to be included in the SBA to make our local produc- penses, although at least 75% nicipalities in rural areas like ago. As of April 16, the SBA funding, along with 85 other ers eligible for the economic of the funds must be spent on NY-19,” Delgado said. had accepted 1.04 million members of Congress in a bi- injury disaster loan program, The U.S. Senate passed loans through the Paycheck partisan letter dated April 2. as intended by Congress. See FUNDING A8