Response efforts have not instilled much confidence either. Testing kits were notg probaby sent to the hospitals, and medical labs around the country, political personnel has overruled the recommendations for the cdc. In the administration was slow to appoint any single official for the Public Health expertise to coordinated our governments response. Even now, President Trump seems to be spending one of us time blaming commedia and blaming the democrats and being constructi constructive. Infective blades everyone. He is downplaying, the virus to a dangerous degree. His chief of staff amazingly said to americans, turn off your televisions. They know the history of how these viruses spread and work. Winnie to deny them, you dont let people know what is happening and what to do about it. Things getd worse. And if the president , being self centered as is only cares about himself and his image any tribes uas usual instead of solving te problem, blame somebody else. The deflection and finge
Of the ships arrival there incubating coronavirus. Is declaring a state of tomorrow. We want to get you straight emergency. Reporter the centers for to that News Conference with former fema director, mark the governor. Nouveau, help us break down some of what we heard here. Disease control, state health state of california, 29 that Emergency Declaration by the governor frees up resource officials and others are individuals that have working on plans about how this subsequently been tested ship due to come back in tomorrow will be brought back positive. S. In to San Francisco. Reporter official word came what did he say, a lot we loop into the phase of wednesday afternoon that the there. Grand princess would be cutting unprecedented. Weve got a cruise ship thats gonna be sitting out in the repatriation. Were typically back at the end her trip short after fuse that of january. Ocean, were gonna deal with the first phase of our it. I dont know if thats happened engagement as it relates to
Officials say that person had Underlying Health conditions and had recently returned from a San Francisco to mexico cruise. In washington, another death was announced bringing the total there to ten. Placer county officials also held a News Conference today. Placer county Public Health has been conducting intensive Contact Tracing to identify and Contact Health care workers and Community Members who were expos individual. Officials say they think the person had Minimal Community exposure between returning h spo ntcted coronavirus. Princess cruises has identified the patient as a 71yearold man. And that patient is not the only Northern California resident on that creuise who later tested positive. Now crews passengers on that ship are being warned once again. You can see the cruise ship right there. And kate larsen is live with the latest. Reporter well, originally that cruise ship was supposed to come back to port here in San Francisco on saturday morning and then this morning princess
Good morning. Good morning everybody. Thank you so much for joining us and good morning to our viewers on cspan im sarah and president of the alliance for Health Policy, and really pleased to be here today with phil pearce and worldwide, and to introduce the admiral brett who is the assistant secretary for Health Opinion hes our 16th assistant secretary for health in the the United States department of health an Human Services and as i understand it its now two Year Anniversary in the role he serves as a secretarys Principal Public Health and science advisor, and hes responsible for coordinating efforts across the administration to fight americas Opioid Crisis. He also oversees the the office of the Surgeon General and u. S. Public Health Service Commission Core. His office leads many Critical National initiatives including a historic new plan to end the hiv epidemic in america the physical afnght tbliens for americans, National Vaccine plan, with and across Agency Effort to improve th
Was it your decision to not have her . No. Etary azar sda ann was there. Mr. Doggett not the disease expert who was the truth expert, not the out on tuesday, especially drawing the president s attention, in saying will see communities spread in the United States. Its not a question of if this will happen. Is a question of when and how many people in this country will illnesses. Do you agree with her statement . Secretary azar first, i know doctor extremely well, over decades. I have the highest respect for we believe no. Mr. Doggett do you agree with the fact . Secretary azar communities spread mr. Doggett do you agree with her or not . Context azar theres need. Community spread could be in a town, a locality, or could be nationwide like china. Have but day could before in Northern California let me ask you ecretary azar could be a community case. We dont know. Mr. Doggett in saying disruptions to everyday life may severe, but people might want to start thinking about this now. L with