California had one of its deadliest days yet. Yesterday there were 68 new deaths confirmed in the state bringing the total to 453. According to Johns Hopkins university, there are now 17,803 coronavirus cases statewide. More than 2700 people are hospitalized. Governor newsom says there are 1154 people in intensive care units. That is a 4 increase from yesterday. Governor newsom says california has secured and distributed 41 1 2 million n95 masks. The state is also going to use over 1 billion in Disaster Response money to buy personal protection equipment. That would allow us to invest over d can secure the anxiety that many of us have. Those ppes will not only be for medical workers but also for Grocery Store workers, dmv employees and Homeless Outreach personnel. At the white house today Officials Say the nationwide stayathome effort is in fact paying off. Officials were asked about the latest projections on the coronavirus death rate here in the u. S. A widelyward from about 82,000 d
Features were negative, but today they went up slightly enclosed at 10 a barrel. A new study from the National Institute of health says hydroxychloroquine may not work against the coronavirus. The study found that that anti malaria drug did not show benefits in treating the virus and may actually lead to more deaths. Researchers say 28 of the patients given the drug died compared to 11 of patients who received routine care alone. And as more states move ahead with plans to reopen their economies, the director for the centers of Disease Control and prevention is warning about a possible second wave of the virus. In an interview with the washington post, the director said the second wave would be worse, especially for hospitals because it would likely coincide with the start of flu season next winter. In the bay area bart announced that all passengers starting tomorrow will have to cover their nose and mouth inside all stations and onboard all trains. Enforcement is set to begin tomorrow
Be a reaction to the weekend. But we have the same question, how fast and how steady decline. We dont want to see flat. We want to see an increase in decline. We want to see how fast the decline goes and how low the decline goes. When does the hospitalization rate get down to fully manageable number . When does the incomingcase number get down to a manageable number . You see again, overall hospitalization rate is on the decline. Again, yesterday, a little less than we would like to see. But hopefully it was a sunday anomaly, because of the weekend. Intubations is down. Number of new cases still 1000 new covid cases every day, puts it in perspective. Down a tad from where it was, but again, these weekend numbers sometimes are a little strange. Number of lives lost 337. , still tragically high. But on the decline, if you look at it over the past few days, not that that gives any solace to 337 families who are suffering today. On testing, this has been a big topic, increasing testing. It
The drug from gilead remdesivir has shown promise in a couple of trials and i think well only of stalemate how soon help is coming, see more of that. Whats the implication of an athome test they are starting to roll it out who gets it. The new outrage that the wealthiest schools, harvard, got today. Millions in aid weeks ago. Is this something that could be scaled up and really make a essential items, toilet paper, difference here . Im biased, my background is paper towels and food. In diagnostics outbreaks begin and end with how stores are rushing to get diagnostics. Its when we have diagnostics available everywhere, very easy and cheap and as rapid as more on their shelves. The mystery deepens over kim jongun. Possible, thats how were actually going to stop this outbreak, combined with social the north Korean Leader not seen distancing and ultimately a for weeks. This morning what u. S. Officials are saying about his health. All that plus reunited Rob Gronkowski comes out of retireme
Emergency Small Business fund, 75 billion for hospitals. The democrats claim its their victory and already, senator schumer is planning another 150 billion package, this one for local governments. Is all this enough . In my opinion, not if we dont get back to work soon. We have to open up the economy to avoid economic disaster. Elsewhere, the president says he will sign an executive order today suspending green card issuing for 60 days. This does not apply to guest workers or agricultural workers. To the markets. After two days of sharp declines, weve got an uptick. The dow looks like it will open with a gain of close to 400 points. That is 1. 7 . S p up 1. 8 . Nasdaq up 1. 6 . Green arrows across the screen. There are some standout stocks. Netflix nearly 16 million new subscribers. Their outlook, though, is cautious. We will get into that. The stocks down eight bucks, 1. 8 . Look at chipotle, doubling their online orders in the month of march. Chipotle is clearly a lockdown winner and