纽约州复工第一步：对关键岗位人员开展抗体测试
纽约州已经在恢复正常生活的漫长道路上迈出了第一步，并开始为经济重启打下基础。据纽约州州长安德鲁·科莫表示，该州将开展抗体检测，以识别曾经感染新冠病毒并具有一定免疫力的医务工作者和其他关键岗位的人员。
纽约州新冠疫情已有所减弱，当地政府开始计划让人们的生活回到正轨，目前已确立了初步目标和关键节点。但由于检测能力不足，疫苗研发也还需要18个月的时间，政府决定逐步重启经济所依据的关键因素有两个：一是企业的“重要程度”，二是疫情卷土重来的风险水平。
这项计划的关键在于加快检测速度，既要发现人们是否感染了新冠病毒，也要判断受试者是否感染过新冠病毒并产生了抵抗力。政府将优先对先遣急救人员和其他抗疫关键岗位的一线人员开展测试。
科莫在周三（4月15日）的每日疫情通报会上透露，抗体试剂盒由纽约州卫生署研制，当局计划每天进行2000次测试。已产生抗体的人员可以优先返回工作岗位，因为他们已经不再携带病毒，并且产生了免疫能力。
纽约州已获批在自己的实验室开展检测。但为了争取私人企业的帮助，扩大检测范围，该州还需要获得美国食品和药品管理局的批准。科莫表示，一旦获批，纽约州每天最多可以为10万人提供测试。
科莫强调，大规模测试对于任何复学复工的计划都至关重要。如果没有联邦政府的帮助，各州将无法独立承担这样的检测。
科莫说他将签署一道行政令，要求纽约民众在无法保持社交距离的情况下，必须佩戴口罩遮住口鼻。这也提醒我们在可以预见的未来，“正常生活”的概念只是相对的。
科莫表示，行政令将在本周末生效。当局一开始将不会对违规者进行处罚，但如果人们拒不遵守规定，他将授权地方政府强制罚款。
尽管疫情仍在肆虐，但对于渴望回到工作岗位和恢复行动自由的纽约人来说，旨在重启经济的新措施渐渐成了他们最关心的话题。虽然最新数据显示，美国疫情已趋于缓和并开始消退，但数据也表明大流行还远未结束。
纽约州在4月14日新增752例死亡病例，连续12天死亡人数超过500。该州累计病亡人数已达11586人。每天都有数以千计的新增感染病例，医院收治的患者也急剧增加，单日最多约有2250名患者入院。
尽管如此，总在院人数、重症患者以及需要插管的患者（后者需要使用呼吸机）人数总体有所下降。政府官员认为纽约州已经度过了最危险的时期，因为纽约一开始从其他州和国家获取了数千台呼吸机，但现在该州已经开始向他州运送呼吸机，其中支援密歇根州100台，支援马里兰州50台。
科莫表示：“我们还没有脱离险境，但我们可以控制住疫情的蔓延。”（财富中文网）
译者：智竑
纽约州已经在恢复正常生活的漫长道路上迈出了第一步，并开始为经济重启打下基础。据纽约州州长安德鲁·科莫表示，该州将开展抗体检测，以识别曾经感染新冠病毒并具有一定免疫力的医务工作者和其他关键岗位的人员。
纽约州新冠疫情已有所减弱，当地政府开始计划让人们的生活回到正轨，目前已确立了初步目标和关键节点。但由于检测能力不足，疫苗研发也还需要18个月的时间，政府决定逐步重启经济所依据的关键因素有两个：一是企业的“重要程度”，二是疫情卷土重来的风险水平。
这项计划的关键在于加快检测速度，既要发现人们是否感染了新冠病毒，也要判断受试者是否感染过新冠病毒并产生了抵抗力。政府将优先对先遣急救人员和其他抗疫关键岗位的一线人员开展测试。
科莫在周三（4月15日）的每日疫情通报会上透露，抗体试剂盒由纽约州卫生署研制，当局计划每天进行2000次测试。已产生抗体的人员可以优先返回工作岗位，因为他们已经不再携带病毒，并且产生了免疫能力。
纽约州已获批在自己的实验室开展检测。但为了争取私人企业的帮助，扩大检测范围，该州还需要获得美国食品和药品管理局的批准。科莫表示，一旦获批，纽约州每天最多可以为10万人提供测试。
科莫强调，大规模测试对于任何复学复工的计划都至关重要。如果没有联邦政府的帮助，各州将无法独立承担这样的检测。
科莫说他将签署一道行政令，要求纽约民众在无法保持社交距离的情况下，必须佩戴口罩遮住口鼻。这也提醒我们在可以预见的未来，“正常生活”的概念只是相对的。
科莫表示，行政令将在本周末生效。当局一开始将不会对违规者进行处罚，但如果人们拒不遵守规定，他将授权地方政府强制罚款。
尽管疫情仍在肆虐，但对于渴望回到工作岗位和恢复行动自由的纽约人来说，旨在重启经济的新措施渐渐成了他们最关心的话题。虽然最新数据显示，美国疫情已趋于缓和并开始消退，但数据也表明大流行还远未结束。
纽约州在4月14日新增752例死亡病例，连续12天死亡人数超过500。该州累计病亡人数已达11586人。每天都有数以千计的新增感染病例，医院收治的患者也急剧增加，单日最多约有2250名患者入院。
尽管如此，总在院人数、重症患者以及需要插管的患者（后者需要使用呼吸机）人数总体有所下降。政府官员认为纽约州已经度过了最危险的时期，因为纽约一开始从其他州和国家获取了数千台呼吸机，但现在该州已经开始向他州运送呼吸机，其中支援密歇根州100台，支援马里兰州50台。
科莫表示：“我们还没有脱离险境，但我们可以控制住疫情的蔓延。”（财富中文网）
译者：智竑
New York State took an initial step on the long road back to normal life and began laying foundations for how the process will work, introducing an antibody test to identify medical personnel and other essential workers who have already had the coronavirus and have some immunity, Governor Andrew Cuomo said.
As the state’s coronavirus crisis starts to ebb and officials begin planning the massive undertaking of returning New York to a semblance of normality, they have begun putting in place initial goals and milestones. But with a shortage of testing capacity and a vaccine still as long as 18 months away, they are looking at a phased reopening based on two key factors: how “essential” a business is, and what its risk profile is for reigniting the spread of the virus.
A key element of the plan is to get testing up to speed, both for whether people have the virus and whether people once had it and have developed resistance. Initially, the test is being made available to first responders and other essential workers on the front lines of the battle against the virus.
Using a testing kit developed by the state’s Health Department, the program will run 2,000 of the tests a day, Cuomo said Wednesday at his daily virus briefing. Those who have the antibodies will be allowed to return to work earliest, because they no longer carry the virus and have developed resistance to it.
New York has been allowed to conduct the tests in its own labs. But in order to enlist the help of private administrators and make it available on a widespread basis, the state needs approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. If the FDA approves, the state could test as many as 100,000 New Yorkers a day, Cuomo said.
Cuomo emphasized that wide-scale testing was vital to any plan to reopen schools and businesses and that the states can’t afford to do such testing without help from the federal government.
In a reminder that normal life will be a relative term in New York for the foreseeable future, Cuomo said he would sign an executive order requiring New Yorkers to wear a mask covering their nose and mouth in situations where social distancing can’t be maintained.
The order will take effect at the end of the week, Cuomo said. There won’t be a penalty for noncompliance at first, but if people aren’t following the order, he said, he will authorize a fine that would be enforced by local governments.
The new measures toward reopening are beginning to take center stage for New Yorkers eager to get back to work and move freely, even as they are unveiled against a backdrop of ongoing strife from the virus. Though new data shows the infection’s reach has plateaued and is beginning to ebb, it also shows the pandemic is far from over.
New York recorded 752 virus-related deaths in the latest 24-hour period, the 12th consecutive day with more than 500 fatalities. The overall death toll is 11,586. Thousands of new infections are being reported each day, and there was a sharp jump in the number of new hospital admissions for patients with the virus, to about 2,250 in a single day.
Still, total hospitalizations, intensive-care admissions and intubations -- in which patients were placed on ventilator support -- were down overall. And in a sign that officials believe the crisis phase of the infection is truly passing, New York -- the recipient of thousands of ventilators from other states and countries as the virus mounted -- is now sending them to other states, with 100 to Michigan and 50 to Maryland.
“We’re still in the woods,” Cuomo said. “But we can control the spread.”
