Unfiltered, at cspan. Org coronavirus. Earlier today, the World Health Organization held a News Conference in geneva on the coronavirus pandemic. The who director general stressed the need for countries to control the virus during the lockdown period, and also talked about president trumps Coronavirus Response efforts, saying the president showed political commitment and leadership. Shortly before the briefing, the United Nations announced the launch of a 200 million humanitarian Response Plan to combat coronavirus. Good morning, good evening, and good afternoon. Hello, and welcome, everybody, to the World Health Organization press briefing on covid19. We have with us as always the w. H. O. Director dr. Tedros, also dr. Ryan and dr. Maria van ker o hove. Dr. Tedros will begin with an update, and when dr. Tedros has finished opening remarks i will open the meeting to questions. If you have connected by zoom, use the raise your hand icon to o asknto the queue t questions. If you are conn
Provider. Amy is with us today courtesy of the aerospace corporation. Amy is a spaceflight historian. Author, youtube or, public speaker, and popular space personality. Not unlike her subjects she is one of the only academically trained young female spaceflight historians writing for a general audience. She runs the beloved log of vintage space hosted by Discover Magazine and to a Youtube Channel with over 3,125,000 subscribers. Shes a regular writer for discovery seeker and has hosted numerous space and science related shows. Among them, nasas unexplained files. She gives talks about spaceflight all over the u. S. And america. Please give a warm welcome to amy title. Bring it down to short level. Thank you for coming to listen to me talk first thing in the morning. Its weird about hearing your bio read like that. Ill try to live up to everything with just i want to start with the brief audience participation about who hasnt heard about mercury 13. Theres like a decent number of hands,
Cases of coronavirus. Also today, 21 people died of coronavirus in Santa Clara County. 10 people have now died from coronavirus in Santa Clara County. The most in the bay area. They have also announced a 39 new cases bringing the total number of cases there to 302. Telling us more about how the counties address this. Hospitals in Santa Clara County are bracing for a surge of covid19 patients as tests become more available. Any strategy to meet demand. Transforming a Convention Center into a federal medical station. Spirit the partnership of the federal government is bringing in 238 additional beds for people have noninfectious disease so we can alleviate the pressure from our hospital. Officials and clark county revealing new details on sunday and as per the mentor stage of the site would be temporary entry patients who have not tested positive for coronavirus. At that facility they really need to use the resource to help decompress our hospitals. Right now they have a total of 2500 ho
Going to be a little bit of activity today. Yesterday, was san jose, Santa Cruz Mountains amenta headed up towards the peninsula. 40s and 50s today, mix of sun and clouds today. Every bay area county now has confirmed coronavirus cases. The first to cases are now confirmed by the department of health to more deaths in Santa Clara County thats a total of 10 in that county, more deaths than any other bay area county, they are now 302 confirmed coronavirus cases in Santa Clara County, the highest number in the northern part of the state. They are preparing for a surge of patients as testing becomes more available. There is already a plan to turn the Convention Center into a temporary medical facility where patients would be treated for other conditions including car crashes and heart attacks. County Health Officials are thanking people for helping during the health crisis, they say they are grateful for people who been contacting their doctors before going to the emergency room and county
We have with this, the who director and also doctor mike ryan executive director and doctor maria. The doctor will begin with an update and then when finished, i will open the meeting to questions. If you can please ask your questions. If you can find a phone, please. I will apologize for now to all of those who missed out. We have more than 260 people in the line already. They are connecting and asking questions. So we have to restrict this briefing to an hour. So are speakers, who are all running responses they can get to many other demands of the time. I will now in the summer to doctor printed. Thank you. Good morning. Good afternoon. And good evening where are you are. The pandemic continues to take a massive toll not just on health but on so many parts of life. For making this sacrifice to protect the health of others we look forward to next years olympics which we hope will be an even bigger and better celebration of our shared humanity. And look forward to join. We have overcom