Governor baker good afternoon. Today we are going to talk about our longterm plans for covid19 testing here in massachusetts and new announcements to make testing more accessible for people and talk about significant shipments of personal protective equipment that arrived in massachusetts. First, we will provide our daily update on hospitalizations. As of yesterday, we conducted over 410,000 tests with over 8,500 new tests reported yesterday. 1,865 tests were reported and for all tests that came back yesterday and that is within the range we have been seeing over the past few days. The range we have been seeing over the past few days. As we said before, that positive rate has come down significantly from where we were a month ago where it was hovering in the 20s and 30s. 26 newer hospitalizations for covid19 yesterday but over 3,000 residents in hospitals due to covid19 that need serious medical care. Our hospitals have been able to withstand the this. Massachusetts still remains one o
Pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome which is tied to the virus. [background sounds] so good afternoon. Today were going to talk a little bit about our longterm plans for covid19 testing here in massachusetts and some new announcements to make testing more accessible for people and we will also talk about some significant shipments of personal protective equipment int of recently arrived massachusetts, thanks to some very hard work by members of our team and many others. At first we will provide our daily update on testing cases, hospitalizations. As of yesterday we have conducted over 410,000 tests with over 8500 new tests reporteded yesterday. There were 1165 1165 new posite tests reported which represents a 14 positive test rate from all test they came back yesterday and that is within the range we have been seeing over the past few days. As we said before that policy rate has come down significantly from where we were a month ago where the the percent was hovering in the 20s
Reflecting on her latest book. At phone lines are open 202 7488000 in the eastern and central time zones. 202 7488001 for those in the mountain and pacific time zones. We begin with the numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. More than 2. 7 million confirmed cases around the world. In 185 countries, a total of 195,000 deaths. In the u. S. , more than 850,000 cases. The death toll expected to reach 50,000 within a day. Your us is a dock Infectious Disease physician and associate professor at the Boston University school of medicine. She serves as the director of special pathogens unit at Boston Medical Center. Thank you for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. Host let me begin with the pandemic and where we are. What have we learned so far, and what happens next . Guest there are a couple of interesting studies this week alone that tell us where we are within this pandemic. That haveicenters seen huge numbers of cases, we are at the point where we are coming off of the p
Governor baker good afternoon. Today we are going to talk about our longterm plans for covid19 testing here in massachusetts and new announcements to make testing more accessible for people and talk about significant shipments of personal protective aquifment that arrived in massachusetts. First, we will provide our daily update on hospitalizations. As of yesterday, we conducted er 410,000 tests with over 8,500 new tests reported yesterday. And tests were reported for all tests that came back yesterday and that is within the range we have been seeing over the past few days. As we said before, that positive rate has come down significantly from where we were a month ago where it was hovering in the 20s and 30s. 26 newer hospitalizations for covid19 yesterday but over 3,000 residents in hospitals due to covid19 that need serious medical care. Our hospitals have been able to withstand the this. Massachusetts still remains one of the hardesthit states and many data points have been declini
Guest glad to be with you. Host he is one of four president s featured in your book. I want to put a number on the table, 26 million. Thats the number of americans out of work today. Greater than the Great Depression in 1933. Tost its almost impossible imagine. The thing we can take some solace in when we look back at the Great Depression or world war ii is people were terrified during that period of time, and we managed to get through. They didnt know what we know, that a new deal would carry the people through the depression, and the world war, which started very badly, pearl harbor, losing battle after battle, would end with an allied victory over hitler. When we look at 1933, most people working parttime who were employed, hungry people roaming the streets. No safety net at all. Thats important to remember until the new got into place. There was a feeling the Banking System collapsed. There was real concern. What roosevelt said is the people and leadership, together, we will fight