All great policy work for the state for many years. To his right, gareth rhodes. He is not a doctor either. At the department of Financial Services but has worked with me and the state for many years and has been a great talent here. It is a pleasure to be here today. We are at syracuse state university, the upstate medical school and hospital. Had a chance to say hello to the nurses and doctors who work here. I wanted to say thank you for all the all they have done here. It has just been an extraordinary experience but we have seen the good, the bad and the ugly with this. The good is beautiful. Let me talk about some of the facts we are dealing with today. Facts are our friends, right. People want to know the facts without spin or opinion. That is what we have been giving them. Total hospitalization rate is down. Which is good news. Hospitalization is down. The number of into patients is also down. The number of covid hospitalizations per day these are new people who are newly diagno
World with interactive maps. Any timedemand unfiltered at cspan. Org coronavirus. This afternoon, President Trump will hold a briefing with reporters at the white house on the coronavirus response. Be joined byd to Vice President mike pence and members of his task force. You can watch the president s comments live at 5 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Primetime. On journal a special evening addition of the washington journal on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. Our guests are former senators for Disease Control and prevention director tom frieden who is president and ceo of the group resolve to save lives. He joins us to discuss government and private efforts to combat the pandemic. Of Johns Hopkins university will be on to talk about how her team built the coronavirus dashboard and map. Conversation tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. The president , just released in paperback from public affairs, resent biographies of every president organized by their ranking in our mu
Members of congress, donald trump was reluctant to use the Defense Production act to nationalize production and distribution of these crucial items that could save lives. There was no such reluctance on tuesday when trump invoked that very same law to classify meat plants as essential infrastructure that must remain open. While Health Care Workers are forced to reuse masks until they fall apart, they should at least be able to score some chicken nuggets. Am i right . For the kids. Priorities. The move forces lowwage employees, many of whom are black, latino, or immigrant, to working conditions right for the spread of the virus. Already, more than 20 meat packing plants across the country have closed due to concerns about illness. According to a new report by the cdc, nearly 5,000 meat and poultry plant workers in 19 states have been diagnosed with covid19, 20 people have died. The federal government has also failed to coordinate the National Food supply which is why youre hearing about
Pack barbecues. This is video from over the weekend at a lake of the ozarks pool party. Guests say there were temperature checks to get in and there was Hand Sanitizer at every turn, but you can see from the images pool goers clearly disregarding what nations Top Public Health expert should be our new standard in every day life, masks and social distancing. 50 of 50 states are partially open, not open enough in the president s view. He will lay another wreath next hour at fort mchenry, the Baltimore Mayor calls that a bad example because his citys residents are still under a stayathome order. The president is threatening to pull the Republican National convention from North Carolina because North Carolinas governor cannot commit his state will be fully open for visitors and large gatherings by august. Open faster and open for good, he says. So i was hearing millions of people and it would have been millions of people. If we didnt shut down, now would i shut it down again, no, because w
Put simply, the halving is an automatic 50% reduction in the number of bitcoin entering circulation. That should, in theory, push the value of bitcoin higher.