Over 70,000 missourians have been tested at this time. Want approach may 4, i missourians to feel confident that we are in a good place and ready to move forward. The four essential pillars of our show me strong Recovery Plan are a big part of this. We have met each of these pillars and have full confidence that missouri is prepared and ready to safely reopen. One of the four pillars is Hospital Capacity. I want to repeat what i said yesterday, our hospitals are not overwhelmed. With the exception of the st. Louis region, every region across the state has shown a significant decrease in covid19 hospitalization. Ourill continue to monitor Hospital Capacity as we move forward, but missouri has an Excellent Health care system, the hospitalsou are prepared. Another pillar of our Recovery Plan is testing capacity. Between the state health lab and andeast 15 private labs participating health care institutions, approximately 50,000 tests could be performed each week. 125e are now more than Sa
I am joined by Health Commissioner judy. To the right, dr. Ed lifshitz. Great to have you both. To my left, the superintendent of the state police. The director of the office of Homeland Security and preparedness is in the house, and i suspect he will be joined by chief counsel plotkin at some point. Update, late yesterday afternoon, i received a call from eric hagen, the deputy secretary of the u. S. Department of health and humans services. He informed me that of the 395 hospitals hardest hit nationally by covid19 and which collectively will share 12 billion under the latest distribution of federal funds, 53 of those hospitals are in new jersey. Altogether, these 53 hospitals will be receiving 1. 7 billion directly from the federal government. That is the second largest amount of funding awarded only behind new york. This funding will be deposited automatically, no further paperwork required, with the hospitals in the middle of this upcoming week. Getting more critical Financial Aid
Our lines are open. Host in the eastern or central time zone. In the mountain and pacific time zone, 202 7488001. Thank you for being with us. Numbers with the courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. More than 3. 1 million confirmed cases. Regions, the and death toll around the world in of 227,000. More than one million cases in the u. S. Joining us from boston is the president of of the anxiety and Depression Association of america and Program Director for the Community Psychology at Community Psychology at harvard medical center. Thank you for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. Host let me begin with information courtesy of the Kaiser Family foundation that puts this into perspective. Nearly 40 of americans have either lost a job or income as a result of covid19. 45 said the stress is affecting their Mental Health. One in five says it has a major negative impact. On the psyche of the average american, the mental healt of the average american, what does this mean . Guest we a
The barbers and the salons. Very important part of our economy. The discussion was great. We were trying to do things in a way that is safe, smart, stepbystep. This is something my task force had been discussing. We didnt roll it out in phase one but that doesnt mean we arent intent on getting a yes on this. The ideas we heard were great. I will be receiving written product. We have folks consulting with physicians working with written product, as well. I am confident it is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when. But we have to make sure it is safe and sound and everything is good. I think part of the reason we are able to have this discussion is because we have seen a great amount of success throughout the state, particularly in Orange County. I think the county health department, the mayor, all the folks involved with that deserve a lot of credit. Also, statewide, as of last night, florida had 581 Covid Patients in the icu statewide. That is the lowest we have had in a month, and
See that from the outside now. China has a history of infecting the world and running substandard laboratories. This is not the first time we have the world exposed from to a virus that resulted in failures from a chinese lab. While the Intelligence Community continues to do its work, they should continue to do that to verify so we are certain. There is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in wuhan. Do you believe it was manmade or genetically modified . Sec. Pompeo the experts so far seem to think it was manmade and i have no reason to disbelieve that. Dni saysffice of the the consensus, the Scientific Consensus was not manmade or genetically modified. Sec. Pompeo thats right. I agree with that. I have seen their analysis. Ive seen the summary that you saw that was released publicly. I have no reason to doubt that that is accurate. So just to be clear, you do not take it was manmade or genetically modified . Sec. Pompeo i have seen what the Intelligence