Baton rouge where louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards holds a briefing on the states response to the coronavirus operate. Outbreak. 95 of thes positive results that we announced today are from t ests conducted in commercial labs. The increase of cases appears to be less a sign of exponential growth over the last couple of days and more a sign of a logjam for commercial labs that have developed over a long period of time. Many of these tests were taken several days, if not longer ago. That theery good thing louisiana has been able to rapidly wrap up testing. Day,ct, depending on the we are somewhere between the third in the nation or fifth in the nation in terms of per capita testing. That said, the reason we have been able to wrap up is weve got more and more commercial labs that have come online. But, our different data systems have to be able to talk to one another and that is a part of the problem. A bigger part of the problem is with private testing, those labs have greatly exceede
Something after i go through and we will take questions. These are individuals who are rankers on a lot of different committees. Even though we are not in washington right now, i want to let you know that we continue to work through. There is a lot of work happening with our response to this virus, and i want to walk you back through, remind everybody of the three major bills that we have passed to help defeat this virus. First we passed the 8. 3 billion formergency funding, testing, treatment, and telehealth. Telehealth is very important as we go through to combat this. Second, we passed the Families First Coronavirus Response act, which included extending sick and family leave. It included free coronavirus testing, and last week, even though the democrats had held that bill up, unfortunately, i know a number of people probably had been laid off simply because that was held up too late, how fast we could move, we passed the largest relief package in american history, 2. 2 trillion. Sm
Coronavirus outbreak. The governor talked about his recent decision to extend the stay at home order through april willd said that illinois be reevaluating medical facemask policy. Good afternoon. Cap greet happy april 1. I hope you will play at least one prank on somebody, radical joe today, and find something to laugh about. Note, today is National Census day. You might ask why we need to proceed with a census right now, dont we have bigger things to with our battle against covid19, and my answer is yes, were in the biggest battle of our lifetimes against covid19. It is important to look young and to take the moment to think about our future. It is incredibly important to be sure that every illinois newborn babies to greatgrandparents, is counted in the census. Justenses is far more than a survey. It will determine how much of your tax dollars we get back and the federal government, it will help decide how it had for the next decade. Based upon our 2010 census count, illinois today c
Went to do so we have with us, we have the president of Empire College who i worked with for many years, very helpful on this mission. Commissioner of Health Doctor Howard Zucker my but, general Patrick Murphy who knows more, and to his left is general agreement shield. Thank you for being here today. This is an amazing accomplishment, transformative, the Javits Center looks entirely different. This is a place that is literally going to save lives. Let me go through some facts, where we are, and make some comments to all the women and men who are assembled and do such a great job on this facility. The increase in the number of cases continues. We see the trajectory going up. A plan of action all along, when one flattened the curve, we increase capacity. Flattening the curve meaning if you do it as well as you can do it hopefully there is no high point of the curve, no apex. It is a flatter lower curve. So the Hospital Capacity to keep up with, that is what this is about, not overwhelmi
Announcer new York Governor Andrew Cuomo extended the new york state coronavirus shut down to may 15. During todays briefing he said hospitalizations are leveling off, but deaths still topped 600 overnight. Morning. O good in case anyone who does not know anyone here today, on my farright to my left, melissa derosa, secretary to the governor. Today. Ive you some facts friday, just the facts, maam. My daughters say nobody understands who joe friday is. That is their mistake. Dragnet was an underappreciated cinematic treasure, in my opinion. Just the facts. Just the facts. Here are just the facts. Hospitalization rate is down. To 17,000. That is good news. Total hospitalizations down. Talk about flattening of the curve, the apex, how long is it flat, when does it start to curve. We do not know, but this is a good sign today. Change ink at the net hospitalizations, it is down more significantly than it has been, so that is positive news. Three day average, which again, is more accurate th