Million cases of coronavirus and 63,000 people have died from. Covid also, six bay area counties announced they have shelter in place orders extending through the end of this month. Meanwhile, testing is growing and Public Health officials are focused on context tracing as a second vital phase to contain the virus. Joing us is dr. Rutherford, sfa epidemiologist, advisor to san franciscos department of Public Health, who is leading the program that started this week in san ancisco. Think you for joining us again. Thank you for havingme. We will get to contact t tracing but fii want to talk about breaking news today. The fda has authorized the emergency use of to reduce the mortality d duration of covid 19. It has been proven to do this and some studies although one study was negative. How quickly can be utilized . I think it is a great step forward. The fact that there was a s negatidy from china does not really bother me very much. At study dinot really have a lot of power for people a
In michigan. Since then, our world was turned upside down. Gov. Whitmer to be honest, we have never seen Something Like this. More than 30,000 cases confirmed in our state. This virus impacting every aspect of our lives. Over one million michiganders now unemployed. Thousands of Small Business owners wondering if they will be able to stay afloat. Survivell find a way to and survive through the recession. Public schools shuttered through the school year. Kitchen tables becoming classrooms. Parents becoming teachers. But where theres struggles, theres strengths. Heroes. On the front line. While michiganders and stay home and do their part. Gov. Whitmer the people of michigan have stepped up, and we have started to flatten this curve. Most people have played their part, and we are grateful. We know there are plans to reopen the state, but many questions are main how we will get there. Tonight, we come together to chart that course. Town hall. Cial good evening. Bym so honored to be joined
That course in a special virtual town hall. Brought to you by michigan now. Good evening. Im honored to be joined by my frank and mike. We are broadcasting to stations across michigan tonight. On behalf of all of our stations, we want to thank you for your questions and for tuning into this incredibly special event. An unprecedented time in our history calls for an unprecedented response to your covid19 has hit our state hard. Michiganders have seen loss of life, jobs, and a sense of normalcy. Rebound, anyward questions remain like when will people be able to go back to work, when will things get back to normal, and what is the plan if we do see another spike in cases. Our stations are teaming up to get your questions answered. Tonight we are joined by governor gretchen whitmer. Governor, we want to thank you for the opportunity to bring questions directly to you. The governor is joined by michigans chief medical executive and the director of Michigan Labor and Economic Opportunity. ,h
Required the ability to perform widespread testing and contact tracing. Gov. Cuomo good afternoon. A bigger group than usual. Thank you very much for being here. We will give you some updated information and go from there. On this format of the presentation, i brought one of my own personal bias to the way we do this. People have not noticed i have an unknowing personal habit that annoying personal habit that my children remind me of often. Staff reminded me this morning. People love to give you their opinion on what they think. I often will stop them and say before you tell me what you think, just give me the facts. Just give me the facts before your interpretation of the facts. I like to start with just the facts. Just give me the facts and that is what we are doing in this presentation. Here are the facts. No opinion, no filter. I will tell you what my opinion is, but first the facts. It is an annoying personal habit. People want to tell you their opinion. I think this. I know, but
Put them. They are fully trained and are able to care and provide any type of antiviral flu and do flu testing. They are able to do that. They are able to do acute care and other things that arent referred to secondary care. Has written protocols that support that need . Yes or no. Im out of time. We do. If can you supply those. Well work to get that to you. Yes, maam. My time has expired. Thank you. Chair rice thank you. We now recognize the gentleman from mississippi, mr. Guest. Mr. Guest thank you, mr. Chairman. Chief hastings, want to speak to you on the overall Immigration Crisis that we have and are currently experiencing along our southwest border. I note on page 7 of our your written tum refer to fundamental flaws in the immigration system. You go on to say c. B. P. Has pleaded with congress to address the layers of existing law and judicial systems that adversely impact our ability to effectively manage our immigration system. There are three key gaps in our Legal Framework th