World Health Organization suggests an adequate test positive rate should be somewhere between 3. 12 . But right now in the u. S. , its about 20 . This comes as the death toll has skyrocketed in the u. S. Last week was the deadliest sent on to say the death toll was just over 25,000 but its sort of 4300 deaths from wednesday to thursday. And over 4500 people died on friday alone. Last night we closed in on 39,000 deaths and thats more than the number of people who died in the korean war. For weeks now federal and state officials have been talking about testing shortfalls and why patients who have symptoms cant get tested. Well now we have new insight into how testing got off to such a slow start here in the u. S. Karen caifa has more. President trump says a few states are ready to ope businesses within the next week we continue to see a number of positive signs. The virus has passed its peak. The president pointing to vermont and montana and texas where the governor says a phased reopen
It took me a decade plus to figure out what she was ultimately saying. But she was focused on more than anything else our capacity to be resilient and to meet challenges head on. Our capacity as human beings to refocus our energies or sense of purpose and our sense of optimism and faith to get through times challenging, times like today, difficult moments that all of us are working through. To reconcile the world werelying in,the need to pay our rent, our mortgage. Understand if we can educate our kids at home. With all of the other burdens and challenges that we face within the household and where were going as a state and as a nation. The old adage were nothing but a mir of our consistent thoughts. Whatever we focus on, we find more of. If you are like me, you focus on the nightly news. 24 7 cycle, seven days a week. Its a lot of anxiety running through those broadcasts. A lot of fear that is induced, focusing on what this nation and hat the world is doing to meet this pandemic heado
Refocus our energies or sense of purpose and our sense of optimism and faith to get through times challenging, times like today, difficult moments that all of us are working through. To reconcile the world werelying in,the need to pay our rent, our mortgage. Understand if we can educate our kids at home. With all of the other burdens and challenges that we face within the household and where were going as a state and as a nation. The old ada we are nothing but a mirror of our consistent thoughts the nightly news. 24 7 cycle, seven days a week. Its a lot of anxiety running through those broadcasts. A lot of fear that is induced, focusing on what this nation and hat the world is doing to meet this pandemic headon. That stress is manifest. That stress is real. All of us work through it differently. No one can moralize how some people deal with it opposed to others. Some people are coping quite well. Others are struggling. Understandably. Because they lost their job and they do not have a
Timeline that the state is anticipating a surge of coronavirus patients now next month. The direct payments can wanted more. So we think that theres a a path to getting more for the shrek payments. Yeah that was House Speaker nancy pelosi say more money is coming to help americans through this crisis will see how quickly congress can act good morning. Thank you for joining us here on the kron 4 morning news, it is wednesday april 8th, im James Fletcher and im darya folsom governor newsome says they were doing a good job hang in there its been 3 and a half weeks now. But the state is anticipating a surge of coronavirus patients next month. Yeah, he went on to say that because the curve is stretching our state is. Properly doing the social distancing and thats allowing the state a little more time to not only buy some of the equipment they need but also to help out other states that are in need as well yeah theyve sent off for a california has sent about 500 ventilators in total. To othe
Happy easter for all those celebrating. Happy holy week. To my right we have dr. Jim. Thank you gov. Cuomo good morning. Good to see you again. Some of you for the second time today. Happy easter, for all those celebrating. We deserve some good knows. Change in total number of hospitalizations is down again. This is the number we have been watching, because the fear for us was always overwhelming the hospital system. Added capacity, we have moved equipment around. The fear was always overwhelming the raw capacity of the hospital system. The number of beds. The number of additional net beds was always important to track. That is what we see here. The net down 53, which is the lowest number since we started doing these charts. That is a good number. Three day average, it is a little more accurate than the youtoday is also down as see. 18,000ospitalizations, 18,700. He see the 18, 18, 18. That socalled flattening of the curve. The apex is not just an apex, it is a plateau. That is what th