Going to introduce both and then hand over the mic for conversation. Sarah digregorio aria is the critically acclaimed author of early an intimate history of premature birth and what it teaches us about human and taking care. The revolutionary story of nursing. She is a freelance journalist who has written on health care and other topics for the New York Times, Washington Post and the wall street journal, slate insider and catapult. She lives brooklyn, new york, with her daughter and husband. David marchese is a staff at the New York Times magazine, where writes the talk column. His work has appeared in new york, rolling stone, the American Music writing spin. Gq he lives with his family. Montclair, new jersey. Welcome, sara. Thank you so much for that kind introduction, and thank you so much to all of you for being here today. It really does mean a lot to me to see you here. My community in brooklyn means so much to me. Im just really overwhelmed with gratitude today to be able to do
Sarah digregorio aria is the critically acclaimed author of early an intimate history of premature birth and what it teaches us about human and taking care. The revolutionary story of nursing. She is a freelance journalist who has written on health care and other topics for the New York Times, Washington Post and the wall street journal, slate insider and catapult. She lives brooklyn, new york, with her daughter and husband. David marchese is a staff at the New York Times magazine, where writes the talk column. His work has appeared in new york, rolling stone, the American Music writing spin. Gq he lives with his family. Montclair, new jersey. Welcome, sara. Thank you so much for that kind introduction, and thank you so much to all of you for being here today. It really does mean a lot to me to see you here. My community in brooklyn means so much to me. Im just really overwhelmed with gratitude today to be able to do this work and then also to be able to here with you guys. It i am i a
How challenging it is to be a nurse in the system today. Guest that image came to me because i really feel that way a lot at work. There is a giant rock and every day we come in and we have to move the rock to the top of the hill and the same job because healthcare is so complicated now and not really focused very well in coordination. It could take a term in this amount of time and energy for the very basic things to happen. It was misdiagnosed and a classic thing to happen they come into the Emergency Department and a medical problem that is perceived to the medical floor. I was talking to one of the surgeons involved. I dont think the public can appreciate how complicated it can be such does cause us to even try to work harder to the coordination. On behalf of the entire case the nurses that are there every day. Guest that is a lot of what motivated me to write the book because i think the average person doesnt know how important nurses are for quality patient care. If you do in the
Time. They managed to slow the spread even though they were two of the first states hit by the virus. We begin with Casey Stegall and thats reports live in dallas. The latest numbers from louisiana are hot off the press and the fatality account now climbing to 273 across the state. It is a 15 increase from yesterday, although it is down a little bit considering the last previous recorded. Was a 30 climb in just 24 hours. We expect the governor who is holding a press conference at any minute at the bottom of the hour to give us some updates on those numbers and the continued enforcement thats going on there. There are now more than 6400 total cases across the state of louisiana and that is making it one of those hot spots that National Officials continue talking about. Saturday is when he says the states current ventilator supply will run out. Two days after that, and he says all of our states hospital beds will be full. And each one of those individual departments, and the New Orleans
Because the virus poses a real threat. Im always concerned and thats why would put out key gating criteria. This was not just about diagnosing cases, but through the last few weeks we are beginning to understand how much asymptomatic cases and asymptomatic spread may be out there. So in that guideline is also to set up what we call sentinel surveillance. We are talking about diagnoses and Contact Tracing. We also have to diagnose the virus before it is evident in communities. Ed byron york is standing by with more on the division in states. States are going in Different Directions when it comes to reopening the economy. Georgia has been one of the leaders unless week they opened up several different forms of small business. Today they begin to open up restaurants for dining in with a number of safety restrictions. Some restaurants in atlanta are refusing to open up and they save they are still too concerned. There does seem to be an eagerness to get back to work. We definitely stepped