That total, gov. Gavin newsom said the state saw a 26 jump in new cases, just yesterday. The Navy Hospital ship mercy arrived at the port of los angeles this morning from san diego, the la mayor said the ship is now essentially the largest hospital in the city. Can provide care to up to 1000 noncoronavirus patients, those beds will free up hospitals to concentrate on coronavirus cases. At a briefing on board the ship, the governor said facilities up and down the state are preparing right now for a surge in patients. We are in the process now of having secured roughly 4000 beds of some type to prepare for the surge which we believe will start taking shape in the next week or two based upon our modeling. Also today, gov. Newsom addressed the growing economic certainty that has been crated by this outbreak. He signs an executive order banning enforcement of eviction orders for nonpayment of rent, through may 31. Health officials here are bracing for projected influx, and the coming weeks.
Kids death homicide. Well continue to follow this investigation. Deborah dr. Who made a racist Facebook Post is facing serious consequences. One of her jobs is in jeopardy. Reporter in the last 90 minutes, the cu school of medicine is starting to cut ties with dr. Michelle haran for the school i faculty appointments. At the same time, never help the pacer 300,000 a year has basically suspend her posting this message on facebook they left they say, until further notice, dr. Heron will not be seeing patients or providing Anesthesia Services at Denver Health Medical Center at issue Michelle Obamas appearance as mike face. She insists shes not a racist. At this point its not clear just how long her absence from Denver Health willllast. This whole situation generated a lot of discussion online. We have not talked to dr. Heron in person. This is what happened when we stopped by her home earlier today. I was looking for dr. Heron. Shes not available for comment. Reporter could we set a time t
So there is some things we need to decide to figure out how were Going Forward the short answer we have at the end of the year last year, we had identified a couple of specific items that we had identified as risks the biggest ones were the reduction the capitated rate for medical expansion population and this is about 167 167 million and an associated i g t that rates had been going to i pack we had the fund retired were drawing them out in fiscal year 20162017 to cover that shortfall in fiscal year 20172018 we are doing a similar were taking a similar approach to draw fund reserved but we anticipate is that well be doing that in a one time basis and then resolving the issues that are underlying the needs to draw from reserves the budget Going Forward so really not be independent on drawing from the reserve year after year were trying to use it as a way to capture on things unforeseeable and clean up things Going Forward in the budget and i think your suths e suggesting we want the re
Someone that is predisposed and it was useful in guiding them as were going ongoing through the epidemic i was wondering an opportunity to learn how the department handles communications. Im a little bit concerned. But cnn and fox and everybody the headlines by far most serious than ebola what is the role we think your department in terms of corrective communications or an updated accommodations the facts are the best way to get things out i find it effective as well as perhaps meeting some of the conditions of the Latino Community who is traveling back and forth and may have higher concerns. Right for the Latino Community that is actually a lot of dlament and intensive communication from the Health Organization theyve been good about getting out the information in english and spanish we agree were actively the process of redesigning how to communicate with the physicians at the city level we have a new vendor that is working on Emergency Communications for the city fast and were going