With children who are no longer in school, and also especially kids who have not been able to hang out with their friends and do the things that, of course, kids love to do. I know this has been very challenging for all of us, and especially for families as you juggle to work at home, home school your children, and deal with the difficulties that we know have happened over the past couple of weeks. More porely, what more importantly, what we are going to deal with over the next month to two months of staying at home and trying to abide by the order that has been issued. We know that it is important that while children are at home that they continue to access learning. For some, having access to a laptop and internet is a luxury that other kids may not have. We also know that the School District has been working really hard to implement policies around Distance Learning that they are interested in launching within a weeks time. What we have done in partnership with the School District a
During coronavirus. We turn to Jarrett Dieterle from the r street institute, a Senior Research fellow joining us this morning. A tweet on this topic from the hill newspaper noted that liquor and alcohol laws are being liberalized faster than at any time since the end of prohibition. Would you agree . Guest yeah, i would. Thank you for having me on. I think that is an accurate assessment. Isce prohibition, there reluctance to update our alcohol laws despite prohibition having started over 100 years ago now. Crisis,of this current it is causing a lot of state and local government to rethink how they approach alcohol and creating more flexibility whether it is retailers or producers or breweries to allow them to either deliver or do curbside pickup. Two examples that is something that was not always the case. It has definitely created a push for more flexibility. Host what do you know about alcohol sales in recent weeks . Things from Grocery Stores, other traditional resource retailers ha
Either by dph or their own provider. Every staff member on the two units where staff have been sick have been tested. Every patient where there was a sick patient has been tested. We are working with cdc to identify and test those that are most concerned may have had exposure to coronavirus. Why dont we test everyone on campus . We must prioritize the clinical decisions and resources. First to be tested will be those showing symptoms or who have been exposed to a person with coronavirus. The contract tracings will tell us who these people are and drive further action and decision making. We are committed to keeping you all informed. Testing has been taking places every day this week. It has taken place on the four south among patients with symptoms or identified having risk of exposure. Cdc advices about additional tests on campus. We will act on those recommendations. We have talked at the meetings, dr. Colfax and mayor breed kept you informed about testing supplies. If we had unlimit
I spoke at length with mitch mcconnell, and there is tremendous spirit to get something done, so we will see what happens, but my conversation was very good with senator schumer. I thank you all for joining us, and i would like to begin by providing an update on what we are doing to minimize the impact of the virus on our nations students. With many schools closed due to the virus, the department of education will not enforce standardized testing requirements for students in elementary through high school or the current year. They have been through a lot. They have been going back and forth. School is open. School is not open. It has been all standardized testing, you know, its we are not going to be enforcing that. O i think you can let people know. I think probably a lot of the students will be extremely happy. Some, probably not. The ones that work hard, maybe not, but it is one of those things. Unfortunate. Very unfortunate circumstance. We have also temporarily waived all interest
The bloomberg terminal. A grim milestone. One Million People have now tested positive for the coronavirus with more than 50,000 deaths worldwide. The Asian Development bank estimates the cost of the pandemic at 4. 1 trillion. We will get through this, you was Vice President mike pence tells bloomberg that the economy will rebound from mounting unemployment as the government ramps up virus testing. We are testing over 100,000 americans a day. We literally are tracking every single day the number of cases that are coming out, where they are coming out. Pullback, oil markets reassess President Trumps tweet on output cuts with brent and of uti giving up some of yesterdays gains. We will double big into that story. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading here in europe. Lets take a look at futures right now. They are down in terms of european futures. Downed arrows with futures 6 10 of 1 . Euro stoxx, ftse, dax futures also down. Lets take a look at u. S. Futures. We a