"Lawmakers also passed one of Mr. Cuomo’s top priorities: structural changes to reduce billions in spending on the state’s growing Medicaid program, which the governor blamed for helping to create a projected $6 billion budget gap before the coronavirus outbreak hit New York."

I’m thinking about the paramedic in Peterborough who told me “social distancing” doesn’t exist for front-line health care workers. They aren’t getting two metres space from this crisis – they’re going face-to-face with it. They’re facing down the uncertainty, and they’re facing down the risks to their families and their coworkers. And they’re doing it increasingly short-staffed and with a looming shortage of personal protective equipment.