He made the announcement while speaking to reporters about local efforts to combat the outbreak. Nursing homes are dealing with an influx of cases. Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us today at the Baltimore City Field Hospital at the convention center, which represents a critical part of our ongoing efforts to support Baltimore City and our hospitals Governor Hogan good afternoon. Against the covid19 pandemic. This facility will be a place where coronavirus patients who no longer require hospitalization can complete their care and fully recover, and by providing an additional 250 beds here, this Field Hospital expands the capacity of Baltimore City health care facilities, reduces the time that patients have to remain in our hospitals, and in turn will free up that critical capacity for other patients who need acute care more urgently. We have already assembled the physical facilities here in a very short period of time. And other elements, including a 24 7 staffing plan, are c
Thinking our speaker nancy of the the leadership senate, particularly Chuck Schumer for the stimulus bill. That was just announced. We are hopeful that it will not only passed but hopeful it will fulfill the promises that are being made in terms of its impact. Thene is naive about magnitude of this crisis and i am not suggesting the magnitude of this stimulus will even meet the moment. I certainly have strong points of view there will need to be more in the future. Let me just acknowledge would work and progress. That is manifest in the state of california by our back of the envelope estimate as we process more of the details of the stimulus bill. We will be the beneficiary of over 10 billion just in the grand portion of the package. Some 5. 5 billion dollars alone will go to the state itself. The rest will go to the cities and counties. That does not include all the other specific, very direct support that is also part of the stimulus bill. Helpfull will be very and is very timely as
California governor Gavin Newsom States response to the coronavirus outbreak. Newsom spoke to reporters in sacramento. Governor newsom good afternoon, everybody. Now in our next phase of the beginning process. Actualizing those plans in real time. Let me give you an update of where we are in the state of california. In the last four days we have seen a doubling of the number of hospitalizations related to covid19. In the last four days, double the population that has been hospitalized. We have always seen a tripling of the number of i. C. U. Patients in our system in the last four days. These have long been projected based upon our modeling and consequence. We have for weeks now been organizing ourselves around a require roughly 2 3 increase in capacity within our Hospital System. That requires three fundamental things. It requires finding new places to put people. Number two, it requires having adequate supplies from p. P. E. s to the ventilators. And importantly, number three, requir
Number of i. C. U. Patients has trimmed. Other topics included helping the Homeless Population and efforts to bring in more Health Care Workers. Good afternoon, everybody. We are now in our nicks phase to begin the process. Actualizing those plans in real time. Let me give you an update of where we are in the state of california. Particularly in the last four days we have seen a doubling of the number of hospitalizations related to covid19. In the last four days, double the population that has been hospitalized. We have always seen a tripling of the number of i. C. U. Patients in our system in the last four days. These have long been projected based upon our modeling and consequence. We have for weeks now been organizing ourselves around a surge that will recryer roughly a 2 3 increase in capacity within our Hospital System. That requires three fundamental things. It requires finding new places to put people. Number two, it requires having adequate supplies from p. P. E. s to the venti
See a few more showers. Well talk more about that coming up. And taking a look if youreand pl trouble spot is causing a backup northbound 680 as you approach the bridge. We have reports of a rolled over accident involving a caltrans truck and a couple other vehicles. Those right lanes are blocked for cruse and they have been called out to the sown. Degree in the roadway as well. Were getting reports it is very dark so hard to see. If you plan on 680 plan on delays there. Im anne makovec working the live news desk from home because of the shelterinplace order here in the bay area. New york city is going to be following suit. Taking a live look at manhattan. Bill de blasio is considering a shelter in place order that would mandate people stay in their homes, but it falls short of a complete lockdown. He said to new yorkers to be prepared. An nypd officer tested positive. 17 colleagues are out sick in relation to covid19 symptoms and previously three covid19 cases. You can see why the may