Cuomo: Hospitals can accept visitors

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Andrew Cuomo says hospitals and group homes can now accept visitors at their discretion.

The visitors must follow state guidelines, including wearing a mask and be subject to temperature checks.

Direction, causing officials to rethink reopening.

Nbc's sam brock has this report from miami, where (--- pkg ---) nats: states like florida might be back open for business..

But it's coming at a hefty price, new peaks in coronavirus cases.

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None s/ francisco suarez - miami mayor :09 - :14 "if we continue on this trajectory, we're going to be put in a position, we're going to have to make tough choices.

Miami's mayor responding to florida's 10- thousand new cases in a week..

Vowing not to roll back re-openings, yet but freezing the next phase.

Sb if you had to close down again, could you survive that?

S/ joaquin chamizo - business owner :24 - :28 "it'd be very tough.

I couldn't give you a definitive answer but i can definitely tell you that it'd be very, very tough."

The medical challenges of this latest spike looming large... s/ dr. yvonne johnson - south miami hospital :31 - :39 "everybody who works in the hospital knows that there's no such thing as no risk.

So people have stepped to the plate" dr. yvonne johnson says the most important metric to measure is hospitalizations.

And right now in miami-dade, it's a steady number that's only recently started to climb.

Contrast that with arizona where hospitals have activated emergency plans.

And in texas.

Now seeing record numbers of covid hospitalizations.

In california, cautious optimism, with i-c-u numbers barely budging.

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Ileneed to be careful bl allow visitors in hospital.

Same thing with gruop homes.

This friday the and again they have to use masks etc.

On cam the governor also announced the u.s. open tennis tournament will be held august 31st- sept 13th... without fans.