As many of you know, there are some cruise ships that people in southernng, florida. I obviously am not in control with the port, that is run by in this case broward county. I know they are in consultation with the cruise ships. Be willing tol accept any floridians who are on board. My understanding is that most of the passion ors are foreign nationals. I think theyre working on ways to deal with that. Of course my concern is simply tot we have worked so hard make sure we have avid hospital space in the event of a covid19 search that we wouldnt want those valuable beds to be taken because of the cruise ship. But i think they are working to a solution on that. I did speak with the president this morning about it. I think he would like to see a solution, and i think the administration has seen a lot of the cruise ships take up a lot of resources. We just want to get to appoint where the resources can be used for the folks here, particularly southernrn for florida where we have most of th
And a new face. Right, the commissioner of the department of Public Health. Judy, good afternoon. Ed lifshitz. Dr. Police colonel pat callahan, and we are also joined by the commissioner of the department of Environmental Protection, catherine mccabe, to my left. Great to have you. Covid 19 is ao wholeofgovernment endeavor. Lots of departments have key noes to play, and dep is exception. Commissioner mckee will talk about her departments role. We will go right to the numbers and then feel in details from their. There. We are reporting an additional 2100 96 positive test results. Our statewide count stands at 18,696. Positive test results since yesterday. 696 in total. We continue to lose members of our new jersey family to covid19 complications. This does not get any easier. Since yesterday, another 69 residents have died. 267,total net stands at each of them a precious life lost from our new jersey family. Taking that number, which is a big one, and putting a face to it, and a couple
Space. Oil getting a bit of a reprieve. The concern is you have even more oil flow if the opec deal comes to an end. We want to get you todays market moving news from new york as well as washington. We want to start with the latest pmi data. Factories around the world suffering one of their grimmest months on record in march. Fbloombergs Michael Mckee joins me for more. Theres a lot to dig into. Give me some of your takeaways here. Michael mr. Rogers word of the day is contraction. Across the developed world, they are pretty bleak at this point. Some of them not as bad as thought because of a quirk in the data, but lets go through the data right now. Anybodye hardest hit of i the virus, and now the hardest hit in terms of the pmi number. Eurozoneance, germany, u. K. Are also in the 40s, which marks contraction. New orders of production crashed, but there is a quirk in the data where supplier delivery times are linked. However, in this case, there are no supplies to deliver, so it makes
Heeding the call. I think they are doing what they need to do to protect themselves and ultimately, if the seniors and those web health problems, if they are protecting themselves, i think we will be able to get through this ok. That order will be forth coming and we will hopefully have some resolution on the cruise ship we will continue to be working really hard across the state but particularly in southern florida. With that, i will take a couple of questions. Did you want to comment on the Surgeon Generals comments earlier . Governor desantis i had decided president didthe the 30 day extension, to me, people are not just going to go back to work. Thats a National Pause button and i had concerns about how some of that would affect different communities in florida who have not been hit the same way and i dont anticipate getting hit the same way as places like miamidade. I wanted to see what their guidelines would actually say and even the guidelines, they never actually said to do tha
Coronavirus pandemic, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a roadmap to modify the state stayathome order that would be less for strict if and more focused on individual responsibility. He also warned that Mass Gatherings in the summer are still highly unlikely. This is one hour. Gov. Newsom the first strategy as a part of our strategy of containment we started to repatriate those first flights coming from Mainland China and elsewhere. The second phase was the mitigation phase. Adopting strategies as we saw the first case of Community Spread to advanced stayathome. Rders for seniors processing closing down our schools. Populationbased strategies to atigate spread, that included statewide stayathome order. And then the efforts to continue to practice physical distancing. We then started to move into the third phase. The phase that could broadly be described as the phase of surging. Surging not only a Hospital System but an alternative care system to meet a potential demand. That r