纽约州州长安德鲁·科莫(Andrew Cuomo)质疑一些领导人对人的生命的重视程度，尽管COVID-19导致的美国预计死亡人数继续上升，但各州仍在推进重启经济的计划。
"我们认为一个人的生命值多少钱？"科莫在周二问道新闻发布会。“毫无疑问，呆在家里是有代价的。经济成本，个人成本。快速重开也是有代价的...我们重开得越快，经济成本越低，但人力成本越高。因为失去的生命越多。我的朋友们，这是我们真正在做的决定。”
库莫指出，随着各州采取措施放松预防措施，包括美国政府的预测，COVID-19病例和死亡的预测大幅上升。他引用了联邦应急管理局的一份报告，该报告指出，到6月1日，新病例可能达到每天20万例，每天3000例死亡。
州长还指出，白宫之前引用的华盛顿大学健康指标和评估研究所的一个模型，在周一将死亡人数从6万人增加到了13.4万人，因为“人与人之间接触的增加将促进冠状病毒的传播。”
“这是一个非常好的说法，当你加快重新开放的时候，你会有更多的人接触到其他人，你在放松社交距离，”科莫说。“接触他人的人越多，传播病毒的感染率就越高。感染的人越多，死亡的人就越多。我们知道这一点。”
2020年5月1日，纽约州州长安德鲁·科莫在纽约奥尔巴尼的每日新闻发布会上向媒体发表讲话。
科莫坚持认为，纽约重新开放的计划不会包括一个“交易”，即在生命上投入一美元，或者强制规定一个严格的时间表，并表示该州将“在安全的情况下”完全重新开放
他还表示，当该州重新开放时，将会有一个“断路器”，如果关键指标，如传染率、住院率或死亡率因重新开放而上升，该断路器可能会迫使企业再次关闭。
州长抨击了那些“掩盖我们正在进行的讨论的实际条件”的人，并敦促领导人在讨论违背公共卫生专家建议重启经济的后果时要“诚实”。
“问题又回到‘一个人的生命值多少钱？’“科莫说。”这是没有人公开或自由承认的真正讨论。但是我们应该。对我来说，我说一个人的生命的代价，一个人的生命是无价的。句号。"
科莫还暗示，政治毒害了关于这一流行病的全国性讨论，他坚持认为这不应该是一个党派问题。
“如果我们现在过不去，我们什么时候能过得去？”州长问道。“你有全国性的危机，全国性的爆发，全国性的流行病夺去了成千上万人的生命。你现在也不能把你的政治放在一边？”
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NY GOVERNOR CUOMO URGES AMERICA TO RECONSIDER REOPENING AS NEW CORONAVIRUS MODEL DOUBLES DEATHS
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has questioned how highly some leaders value human life as states press forward with plans to reopen the economy even as the projected U.S. death toll due to COVID-19 continues to rise.
"How much do we think a human life is worth?" Cuomo asked during his Tuesday press briefing. "There is a cost of staying home, no doubt. Economic cost, personal cost. There is also a cost of reopening quickly... the faster we reopen, the lower the economic cost, but the higher the human cost. Because the more lives lost. That, my friends, is the decision we are really making."
Cuomo noted that projections of COVID-19 cases and deaths have risen dramatically as states have moved to relax preventative measures, including projections from the U.S. government. He cited a report from the Federal Emergency Management Agency suggesting that new cases could reach 200,000 per day with 3,000 daily deaths by June 1.
The governor also pointed out that a model previously cited by the White House, from The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, had increased the estimated death count from 60,000 to around 134,000 on Monday because "growing contacts among people will promote transmission of the coronavirus."
"That's a very nice way of saying, when you accelerate the reopening you will have more people coming into contact with other people, you're relaxing social distancing," said Cuomo. "The more people come in contact with other people, the higher the infection rate of the spread the virus. The more people get infected, the more people die. We know that."
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to the press at a daily briefing in Albany, New York on May 1, 2020.
Cuomo insisted that New York's plan to reopen will not include a "trade-off" that places a dollar amount on lives or mandates a rigid timeline, saying that the state would reopen fully "when it's safe."
He also said that when the state did reopen it would be with a "circuit breaker" that could force businesses to shut down again if key indicators like transmission rates, hospitalization rates or death rates increased due to reopening.
The governor blasted those who would "camouflage the actual terms of the discussion we're having" and urged leaders to be "honest" when discussing the consequences of reopening the economy against the advice of public health experts.
"The question comes back to 'how much is a human life worth?'" Cuomo said. "That is the real discussion that no one is admitting, openly or freely. But we should. To me, I say the cost of a human life, a human life is priceless. Period."
Cuomo also suggested that politics had poisoned national discourse about the pandemic, which he insisted should not be a partisan issue.
"If we can't past this now, when can we ever get past it?" asked the governor. "You have national crisis, a national outbreak, a national epidemic killing thousands of people. You can't put your politics aside even now?"
Newsweek reached out to Cuomo's office for additional comment. This article will be updated with any response.
