You can also send us a text this morning, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from, and otherwise catch up with us on social media. That is facebook. Com cspan and cspanwj. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling in now if you are an essential worker in this country. As you are calling in, we show you this map from abc news of the 46 states and washington, d. C. That have enacted policies to close nonessential businesses in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. The exact number of essential by. Oyees, hard to come there is an estimate from the Brookings Institution that relied on department of Homeland Security designations of essential. Atut 7 million employees Grocery Stores, pharmacies, and bigbox stores. When it comes to the state of california, the Public Policy institute of california estimates that in a typical year, roughly one third to one half of californias labor force is employed in essential operations. The standard
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To coordinate the fragmented effort, there are over two dozen es. Sidentially appointed it was a pretty well put together effort but there were another of challenges we saw. One of those things was setting priorities across all of the different agencies with their different budgets. Frankly, we are seeing a lot of these challenges come to fruition out. Or the descendent of a european. Back in 2007, we issued a report that hhs needed to better clarify their roles for what is going to happen in the case of a large domestic pandemic. The one we are seeing now. Fast forward to today, a month ago, we are seeing some of these questions about who was responsible for what, what mechanisms do we need to set up. Try to better coordinate. Is challenge we saw in this. He sustainability we still heard from the agency said it would be very difficult to provide that umbrella view of bio defense and make decisions across agencies. They cannot tell each other what to do or spend their money. Host is th
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Farmers to respond to Avian Influenza on their facilities. Biosecurity is a term that describes every day and emergency disease processes a farmer uses to prevent and control diseases. It is probably the single greatest weapon that we have against Avian Influenza. Unfortunately, biosecurity is not consistently applied by all farmers and all Poultry Companies. We need to look at, as far as number two is concerned, a few aspects of our current Emergency Response plan so we can respond more quickly, more rapidly to an incident. We can get into that a little bit later. Number three, provide an Insurance Program for poultry farmers who contract with Poultry Companies to raise their flocks. Dr. Clifford mentioned indemocrat any fictionindem ni indemocrat fictions that have been paved. Thats very important. They may or may not receive those indemnification. I think we should look into this seriously. Vascy nation for controlling Avian Influenza in poultry requires very serious consideration.