Country, of the washington dc is unlocked on with the president calling on all americans to abide by social distancing guidelines, asking you to stay home in april. Some sobering numbers from the trump administration. Dr. Fauci morning we could see between 100,000 warning we could see between 100,000 and 200,000 100000 and 200,000 people diagnosed with coronavirus. Howardk oh will join us in just a moment. If you are a medical professional, we would love to hear from you. The numbers are on the screen. You can also join us on social media on twitter or facebook. Good evening. A lot to get to, including the numbers from Johns Hopkins university. Numbers continue increasing. 782,000 confirmed cases around the world and 30,000 deaths. 160,000 162,000 cases in the United States. Of manhattanive positive foris covid19. She says she began to feel under the weather and developed muscle aches, fever, stomach upstate stomach upset and could no longer smell or taste. She was diagnosed with coron
People diagnosed with coronavirus. Howardk oh will join us in just a moment. If you are a medical professional, we would love to hear from you. The numbers are on the screen. You can also join us on social media on twitter or facebook. Good evening. A lot to get to, including the numbers from Johns Hopkins university. Numbers continue increasing. 782,000 confirmed cases around the world and 30,000 deaths. 160,000 162,000 cases in the United States. Of manhattanive positive foris covid19. She says she began to feel under the weather and developed muscle aches, fever, stomach upstate stomach upset and could no longer smell or taste. She was diagnosed with coronavirus. Symptoms are mild. She is isolating herself at home. She is monitoring her symptoms and working remotely. She encourages everyone to stay and continues to practice social distancing. Congressman South Carolina and is also battling the illness. ,oining us is dr. Howard koh the former assistant secretary of health for the oba
Worst Case Scenario is over 2 Million Deaths, which is horrifying. Doubling down on Public Health measures, social distancing, handwashing, those numbers could be lower. These are appropriate estimates by dr. Fauci. We do not know what the future holds. So much depends on how much we follow the guidelines. You have been speaking a lot about the pandemic of 1918. I want to put two numbers on the table. 50 Million Deaths in 1918. Deaths as a 675,000 result of spanish flu. You have pointed out we have not learned the lesson from a century ago. This comes as part of our regular Public Health history and we need to be prepared as much as possible and learn from the past experience. In 1918, 6 175,000 deaths in the thatry but we learned social distancing works. Entists have studied social distancing was implemented immediately and they had much lower death rates than in philadelphia. We need to understand what social distancing can do and apply measures today to save lives. Hear the term ben
Theyre really working hard on behalf of their communities throughout the state to handle the covid19 virus as it spreads. And we are so thankful for their leadership at this time. Our projections are that our numbers of infections will continue to go up. Please stay in contact and go to covid. Sd. Gov for all the information updated by noon each day. The good news i have to report today is we have two more people who have recovered, so our total is eight of our positive covid i. D. d individuals now have fully recovered. I was on a phone call yesterday with the Vice President of the United States going over a lot of the federal response to this pandemic across the country and one of the statistics we gave was that one week ago, 50,000 completed tests were processed. Now more than 300,000 have been processed. Thats good news that means that at the federal level and across the country that more of these tests are going through the system and that we fully expect to get rid of the backlog
Mr. President. I ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Murray thank you, mr. President. I also want to thank all of my colleagues who are coming down to speak about this today. Mr. President , families in my home state of washington are scared, they are frustrated, they are angry, and so am i. New reporting now makes it clear new reporting now makes it clear new reporting now makes it clear even after researchers in seattle raised serious concerns about the possibility of Community Spread in Washington State and tried to work with federal agencies to conduct testing, the administration didnt work with them to let the public know how serious the coronavirus was. You can be sure im going to get to the bottom of this and make sure it will never happen again. I am furious that instead of acting with urgency, they did nothing. Transparency, they kept quiet. Instead of working to keep family safe, they wasted valuable time. An