Pressure wont drive our decision making. The science, the data, Public Health will drive our decision making. We set forth a week ago a deep dive on one familiar indicater around testing and tracing, track, issues of isolation and quarantine. Today i want to update you on another indicater specific to businesses, schools and child care facilities. Another indicater specific to businesses, schools and child care facilities. First i want to remind all of you what the six indicaters are. Mentioned testing as one of the principal indicaters, we have made progress in that space. Not nearly where we want to go and need to be but Real Progress we are now see in the space. 578,000 tests have been conducted in the state of california. We averaging over 20,000 tests a day. And we are well on our way to meeting our 25,000 testing goal and getting to 60,000 to 80,000 very shortly thereafter. I mentioned just yesterday optum serve that was doing the endtoend tests, deployed at 80 additional locatio
Mind at 2280, it is still a double digit advance on the year, but its the technology falloff thats getting a lot of attention here. Its led by amazon but concerns as well that the Technology Sector is not immune from some of these issues and then we throw in oil, whats happening with exxonmobil and chevron, as expected, reporting some lousy numbers. Its all weighing on the markets this first trading day of the month. Here to detail that, jackie deangelis. Hey, jackie. Jackie good afternoon, neil. Thats right. This really highlights the fact that earnings matter when it comes to the stock market. You take into account the fact that these companies were reporting earnings that only account for about two weeks of the Coronavirus Impact and we wonder whats going to happen when we get the Second Quarter numbers. But amazon and apple are really weighing today and amazon just shows you, its one of the stocks that everybody has left because theyre saying amazon is doing well during this, peopl
Last year but the income halted that funding on tuesday accusing the u. N. Body of severely mismanaging the pandemic. Meanwhile top e. U. Leaders are urging Member States to Work Together on gradually easing lock down measures the European Commission has warned that moving too quickly could have devastating effects paul brennan has more now on the situation across europe. With 19 europe its member countries divided among national monks creating a patchwork response strict lockdowns in some more relaxed and open in others the disunity prompted many to question the very relevance and future of the European Union project so the question of when and how to consider lifting those restrictions is problematic italys spain austria finland and denmark have this week begun the tentative path to normality at e. U. Headquarters in brussels the Commission President wants the European Union to set the pace and she warned that in the unions borderless member area that piecemeal strategy will undermin
Powers. Protesters there angry at whitmers decision to extend the states stayathome orders until the middle of next month. Meanwhile, in states like georgia the governor there allowing gyms, hair salons, that to too parlors and some other tattoo parlors and some other nonessential buzzes to reopen businesses to reopen. A number of virusrelated elements to report to you. We begin with the death toll in this country. The chinese coronavirus has now killed more than 50,000 americans and infected almost 900,000 nationwide. More federal help is on the way for Small Business and their workers, and more money for hospitals and testing. President trump has just signed that mammoth 484 billion relief package that will give more Financial Support to struggling Small Businesses across america. The relief package provides 310 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program, 60 billion for disaster loans, 75 billion for hospitals, 25 billion for more testing. During todays signing event the oval office
Overall, we have 130,000 people who tested positive. To 16,000 people in our Hospital System, 13,000 people have been discharged. Number of deaths are up once again. Number of people we lost, number 4758, which is up from 159, but which is effectively flat for two days. News,none of this is good the flattening of the curve is better than the increases we have seen. New york is still far and away the most impacted state. And new jersey is having real difficulty. Since speaking with governor murphy, anything we can do together, we will. Michigan, also. California has leveled off. And louisiana is having a difficult time, so they are in our thoughts and prayers. The total number of hospitalizations are down. The icu admissions are down. And the daily incubations are down. Those are all good signs. And would suggest a possible flattening of the curve. The number of discharged is down, but that reflects the overall reduction in the numbers. The big question we are looking at now is, what is