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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, along

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Speaker 1: with my co host of Bonnie Quinn. Every business day

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Speaker 1: we bring you interviews from CEOs, market pros, and Bloomberg experts,

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Speaker 1: and on Bloomberg dot com. Alright, very excited for this

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Speaker 1: next interview. Michael Dowling as President and CEO of north

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Speaker 1: Well Health, New York State's largest healthcare provider, twenty three hospitals,

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Speaker 1: more than thirteen and a half thousand affiliated physicians. And

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Speaker 1: of course you will have seen Michael Dowling next to

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Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo during the beginning part of this pandemic. He's

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Speaker 1: been his advisor and is advising him specifically on reopening

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Speaker 1: plans and so on. Michael, the gratitude of the state

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Speaker 1: and country is with you. But as much as you've done,

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Speaker 1: we're only part way through this whole story. Are you

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Speaker 1: preparing for more cases now that New York has started

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Speaker 1: to reopen, and of course as we see protests continue, Yes,

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Speaker 1: the numbers of cases have dramatically dropped, and we're only

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Speaker 1: seeing right now very very few new cases. Two days

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Speaker 1: ago across our whole health system, we only had nine

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Speaker 1: new cases. But given the reopening and giving all of

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Speaker 1: the protests that recently occurred, um we are watching it

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Speaker 1: very very closely to see whether or not there will

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Speaker 1: be an uptick in cases over the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: We have not seen anything yet, but we are we

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Speaker 1: are observing it very very closely, as I said, just

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Speaker 1: in case that might happen. And of course we're also

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Speaker 1: making plans, um uh for the potential that you could

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Speaker 1: flu season. So we are we are prepared. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we've handled the situation up to this point, I think

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Speaker 1: quite well. We've learned a lot, and we definitely are

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Speaker 1: prepared for anything that might hit us in the future.

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Speaker 1: We hope it doesn't occur, and we hope that people

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Speaker 1: you know, comply with the social distancing and wearing masks

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Speaker 1: and do it do the right thing for the good

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Speaker 1: think we will be in a pretty good in a

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Speaker 1: pretty good situation. But we are prepared. Going back to

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Speaker 1: your question, Michael North, while health Hospitals have treated more

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen patients than any others in the United States.

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Speaker 1: What I want to ask you is how are your

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Speaker 1: people doing? How And maybe kind of get to look

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Speaker 1: back a little bit now and some of those crazy

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Speaker 1: days and crazy weeks where your hospitals and others in

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Speaker 1: the city, in the state were overwhelmed with patients. As

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Speaker 1: you look back, how is your staff doing. The staff

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Speaker 1: is doing very very well, empeed And I I do

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Speaker 1: the direct contact with staff and all of our facilities

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Speaker 1: on an ongoing basis. Them allow is very very high. Um.

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Speaker 1: It is extraordinary how people came together, work together, supported

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Speaker 1: do have a lot of support programs for staff, of course,

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Speaker 1: shot them about healthcare workers. Yeah, it leaves you dumbfounded

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Speaker 1: when you listen to some of those stories, Michael. But

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Speaker 1: But that's an the lens by which you look at it.

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Speaker 1: So give you an example. Two days ago, I mentioned

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Speaker 1: build back up. And I think we're going to build

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Speaker 1: past because we learn some lessons. We have to rethink

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Speaker 1: awful lot more about our normable lessons that we learned here.

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Speaker 1: we will come out of this. Okay, Um, you know, circumstances, yeah,

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Speaker 1: leadership in any organization should be optimistic at a time

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Speaker 1: your staff as well. So I thought, absolutely, Michael, just

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Speaker 1: we create alliances with other large entities. But there's going

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Speaker 1: and I think some of that is for the good.

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Speaker 1: negatives as well. Michael Dowling, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: hearing your perspective from really ground zero on the very

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Speaker 1: our our thanks to you into all the staff of

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Speaker 1: Well Health joining us. Just some extraordinary commentary, Vanni. You know,

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Speaker 1: more COVID nineteen cases than north Well. Yeah, and saved

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Speaker 1: the state and the rest of the country from you know,

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Speaker 1: you wonder what it's like to lead an organization like

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Speaker 1: check in with Bloomberg Opinion. We're joined now by opinion

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Speaker 1: columnist Sarah Holzack. Sarah, thank you for joining a great

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Speaker 1: opinion piece today. On retail. We've known for some time

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Speaker 1: I think the key thing that I've been thinking about

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Speaker 1: to avoid having to do that Sarah, to try on

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Speaker 1: expectations where hey, hopefully we can do at least as

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Speaker 1: out what the opening did. I think this is new

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Speaker 1: data that the market is incorporating and saying, hey, we

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Speaker 1: and there will be an economic price to pay if

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Speaker 1: we don't do this right. Well, we have Secretary Mnution

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Speaker 1: It's interesting, you know, fiscal stimulus has kind of gone

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Speaker 1: little bit more so, So let me address both of

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Speaker 1: those issues, Minution and the stimulus in one answer. Um,

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Speaker 1: whether or not there's a national lockdown or not has

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Speaker 1: leadership on a on a national basis in this it

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Speaker 1: running fifty experiments. What what happens in Wyoming is different

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Speaker 1: So if if the Treasury Secretary is focused on a

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Speaker 1: national lockdown question, he's missing what's actually taking place where

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Speaker 1: And the answer to your question about UM another round

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Speaker 1: of stimulus depends on how bad the sell off gets.

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Speaker 1: I don't mean today, I mean over the next couple

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Speaker 1: UM national rescue plan for the Great Financial Crisis. Congress

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Speaker 1: Let this market sell off another ten that's good for

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Speaker 1: a trillion dollars. Let it sell down another thirty from here,

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Speaker 1: and you'll see another two and a half three trillion dollars.

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Speaker 1: Congress and the President react to a variety of signals.

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Speaker 1: Nothing scares the but Jesus set of people like seeing

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Speaker 1: month or two. That motivates them. Barry, we have to

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Speaker 1: leave there already. I did want to ask you about

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Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve chairman and concerns about some kind of

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Speaker 1: frosthiness here, but we're going to have to wait for

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Speaker 1: the next time. And anyway, we're seeing us frothiness today.

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Speaker 1: That is very riddles of riddles wealth management, of course

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg opinion columns. Of his latest columns include talking about

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Speaker 1: market panic, selling, and other behavioral aspects to this market performance,

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Speaker 1: speaking of which we are down three point seven five

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Speaker 1: and the NAZAC is the winner today pole but it

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Speaker 1: is still down two. Yeah. Yeah, significant layoff sell off here,

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Speaker 1: and it's barried with suggesting some combination of the Fed

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Speaker 1: plus some you know, growing news and growing awareness of

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Speaker 1: perhaps a second wave in certain regions of the country.

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Speaker 1: So the market's kind of digesting that new news and

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Speaker 1: will certainly followed up throughout the remainder of the day. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if we're looking at an unappointment rate of

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Speaker 1: that is not a pretty picture. Thanks for listening to

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