Celebration separation. Easter weekend is transformed with empty churches, services on computer screens, and families limiting their gatherings. How even the peoples pope is without his people. And surprise in the sky. With millions of businesses shut down, it seems the lights are on in the heavens above. What stargazers are seeing now that hasnt been seen in generations. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We have not reached the peak. Every day, we need to continue to do what we did yesterday and the week before and the week before that. Reporter the u. S. Reaches half a million coronavirus cases. The actual curve is much, much lower than any of them projected. Now is not the time to stop the social distancing. It is working. This cannot be a weekend to think we can let our foot off the gas. Were not even close, folks. We have to keep with it until this war is won. I dont know what ive had a bigger decision. Im going to surround my
To my right we have dr. Jim. All for taking time. Lets go through where we are today. On this beautiful day. Lets start with the good news. We deserve some good news, lord knows. Change in total number of hospitalizations is down again. This is the number we have been watching, because the fear for us was always overwhelming the hospital system. Added capacity, we have moved equipment around. The fear was always overwhelming the raw capacity of the hospital system. The number of beds. The number of additional net beds was always important to track. That is what we see here. The net down 53, which is the lowest number since we started doing these charts. That is a good number. Three day average, it is a little more accurate than the youtoday is also down as see. 18,000ospitalizations, 18,700. He see the 18, 18, 18. That socalled flattening of the curve. The apex is not just an apex, it is a plateau. That is what the experts were talking about, that it might have been a straight up, then
An amazing crowd. We had to turn away a good 50 people or more. There is a briefing on u. S. And it is part of a National History center bringing historical perspectives to Current Issues that have confronted congress. It is a political position. It is nonpartisan. It is intended to inform policymakers in public about the sorts of finishes theyre dealing with. I want to give a few thanks to the melon foundation. I also want to thank our assistance jeffrey who is outside of this room for helping make the arrangements. I want to thank the off the of gerry connolly. I want to explain why there was index cards on your seats. We will get questions, answer questions, but we would like you to write those questions on the index cards. So keep them ready and jot down questions when they come to mind. Everyone out there that supports the National Historic center and thank you for coming to the event. We have to get you information about professional organizations like schaffer. Panel rooms are f
Confronting congress and the nation. The purpose of the program is not to provide or advocate for any particular political positi position. It is nonpartisan. It is intended to inform policymakers and the public about the sorts of issues they are dealing with. I want to first give a few thanks first to the Melon Foundation for providing the funding that makes these briefings possible. I also want to thank our assistant jeffrey who is outside this room for helping to make the arrangements. I want to thank the office of Jerry Connolly which booked the room. And i want to remind or explain why there were index cards on your seats and why i passed other index cards around. What we will do after the presentations by the speakers we will get questions, answer questions, but we would like you to write those questions on the index cards rather than ask them in front of the audience. Keep your index cards ready and jot down questions when they come to mind. And so now i will turn this over to m
Talk about the states response. I believe he is stepping up to the podium. Lets listen in to Governor Newsom. Wear here in the sacramento area to make a number of announcements and continue our daily briefings. At the announcement today is an announcement that is near and dear to me an to mayor stainberg and karen larson around the the issue of homelessness. We are at fay silt here in the sacramento area that currently has 30 individuals that were out e streets in encampments that were brought recently to get them off the street to begin the process of basically de well, let me back up. To basically decompress and moreover to address the real vulnerabilities of homelessness in this state and the ins of covid19 as it relates to the impact on the Homeless Population throughout the state. This has been a point of real concern for all of us for a number of months. A top priority since the covid crisis began to manfest. We are pleased today with the partnership we have with fema, the partne