Cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. Next, ceos from the Cleveland Clinic and metrohealth system on how the coronavirus will change Health Care Delivery, public confidence, and telemedicine. The city club of cleveland hosted this event. Hello and welcome to the city club of cleveland. I am the chief executive of the city club and proud member. As we take the steps to reopening the state, your city club is continuing with our virtual forums and still presenting here our friday forms from the studios. We are very grateful for their partnership and support. We all know the coronavirus pandemic has put an incredible amount of pressure on the American Health care system. A shortage of supply and Health Care Workers, declining revenues from the cancellation of a lecture of procedures and Massive Health insurance losses due to unemployment has shaken the foundation of our countrys health care infrastructure. As states begin to reopen and the number of coronavirus deaths and case
Pandemic. Nightline starts right now with byron pitts. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Tonight the frustration across the u. S. Nearly 20 million unemployed americans waiting for stimulus checks, but the covid19 relief is leaving some drowning in a sea of paperwork and procedures and wondering if the government is doing enough. Milk, bread and eggs. What else . Maybe some tortillas. It could be any home in america. The grocery list negotiation. Juice. We cant afford it right now. And like millions of homes across the country right now, you can see the burden nick shouldering. With four children in a home north of San Francisco theres just not enough money coming in. Where are you going, honey . How are you guys holding up . Barely, getting by. Its exhausting. Its stressful. Try being ing to stay positi the kids, but theres definitely tears at night sometimes. I dont know when the next payments going to come in from his unemployment. Right now, nick is like more than 16 million
We have useds in churches. We are getting closer. The numbers are getting much. Loser theyre being attacked as we speak but we will all win. At some point, we will all win. We will do it sooner than people think. Earlier today i spoke with 10,000 of americas faith leaders to thank them for raising this peers of our people. Maybe physically apart, we can use this time to pray and reflect on our relationship with god. With 3000 mayors, county officials to provide an to be the virus, to crush youre looking a little more quickly than people thought. Maybe a lot more quickly. It is something we are watching all over the world. People are watching and seeing what we are doing. We are very impressed. We are dealing with many countries. We are giving whatever information we are able to glean. I just spoke with the representatives of the u. K. I think theyre great Prime Minister is doing much better today. He certainly had a tough bout. He is still going through a tough time. He seems to be doi
We had three fatalities so far. Reporter there were calls on the World Health Organization for limb change there i wonder what your thoughts are on that . Senator martha mcsally, for example, called for dr. Tedros to resign. Look, this not the time to be doing that kind of change. There will be a lot of time to look back to see how the World Health Organization performed. Meantime what our task is to preserve and protect the american taxpayers, make sure our resources dont go to places that wont deliver on behalf of the American People and the world and President Trump and i are determined to do that. Okay. Follow up . Reporter quick follow up he is a busy man. Reporter china has responsibility to get correct figures. How would you broadly characterize cooperation with china right now. Lots of places weve been cooperating, right . Theyre providing us assistance where we need it. There are places on the ground where we do have access to the data we need. Were deeply appreciative of that
Deployed from two Army Hospital units, and they are doing a great job. This is something that we didnt expect to do, but they needed help in new york, and we sent federal troops, not only troops, we also sent a lot of very talented doctors, nurses, First Responders, people who are now running javits. Also as you know, the usns comfort which is in new york, theres been a lot of publicity about that coming in, that was not supposed to be for the virus at all, under any circumstances. But it looks like more and more were going to be using it for that. We will see. That was supposed to be for people having other medical problems, but its very interesting because there are virtually no cars on the road. No motorcycles on the road. No anything on the road. Things that would normally be taken care of we dont see anymore, so we havent seen that in a long time. Perhaps a positive. But the ship is ready, and if it has to, if we need it, if we need it for the virus, we will be using it for that.