Astronauts on how best to quarantine during the pandemic. Give yourself some to accomplish or take action. A sad page in history the words of italys president as the death toll from the corona virus that continues to mount on friday italy reported the highest number of virus related deaths of any country after 919 people died in just 24 hours the number of confirmed cases is increased to there are now more than 86000 infections there the Spanish Government has called on the European Union to provide urgent Financial Assistance more than 750. 00 people died there in the last 24 hours in the United States President Donald Trump aside into law a 2. 00 trillion dollars stimulus package it will speed up government payments to americans and increase job spend if its the us president also invokes the defense production act which will force companies to produce much needed medical equipment. We are working to sign contracts immediately with the major Ventilator Companies in the country includi
Gov. Pritzker good afternoon, everyone. Today, i want to review our latest updates on hospitalization rates and ventilator data and what these numbers might mean in the larger context of our curve. Dataefore we get into the and the trends we are seeing, i want everyone to understand something very important. Exactly one week ago, i stood in front of you to deliver the solemn news that we had reached a new record high, single day increase, in covid related deaths in illinois. We then proceeded to hit or surpassed that marker twice on the days since. Sorry, todayday, is not a record. More illinoisans lost their lives since yesterdays update. To the loved ones of those individuals and all who we have lost in the fight against this virus, the entire state of illinois grieves with you. Covid19, to defeat at some point, we will have fewer cases to report and fewer lives lost. That will be good news. But, it does not change the fact that each and every life that we lose to this virus is an im
Guest today from the Interface Council who will be speaking directly after my comments. As of today, we have confirmed 676 cases of the coronavirus, sadly, 10 people have passed away as a result of this disease. This is clearly a challenging time for San Francisco. What we have done time and time again, especially during this press conference is to reiterate is importance of staying at home. We know that a couple weekends ago we had real challenges with that. Over the past two weekends people complied and have been wonderful. We also think that weather might have played a role in that because it was rain, it wasnt as nice as it will be this weekend. I want be to remind people. It is important to really maintain our physical distance when we are out in public. We may need to run errands and take walks and we are hearing about a lot of data that indicates the early signs that San Francisco is in a decent place. The fact is, we need to be mindful that this virus is out there. We cannot ge
Over time our guidelines to slow the spread are decreasing. And will result in fewer hospital admissions because of the people doing what they had to do. Great people. And working with elected representatives and the doctors, the nurses and everybody. Just everybody. Everybody has been so amazing. Lou President Trumps aggressive strong handling of the deadly chinese contagion has improved considerably his poll numbers. The fox news poll reaching a record high, up to 49 . The latest fox news reading. 79 say the nation is moving in the right direction in the fight against the pandemic. 101,000 worldwide have been killed. In the United States, almost half a million have been infected. 18,000 more have died. Dr. Deborah birx echoed some of the president s optimism that better times are indeed ahead. What has been encouraging for those of you watching epidemic curving every day. For the first time in the jeuts unite in theUnited States weo level on the rhythmic phase. This gives us great he
The spread are decreasing. And will result in fewer hospital admissions because of the people doing what they had to do. Great people. And working with elected representatives and the doctors, the nurses and everybody. Just everybody. Everybody has been so amazing. Lou President Trumps aggressive strong handling of the deadly chinese contagion has improved considerably his poll numbers. The fox news poll reaching a record high, up to 49 . The latest fox news reading. 79 say the nation is moving in the right direction in the fight against the pandemic. 101,000 worldwide have been killed. In the United States, almost half a million have been infected. 18,000 more have died. Dr. Deborah birx echoed some of the president s optimism that better times are indeed ahead. What has been encouraging for those of you watching epidemic curving every day. For the first time in the jeuts unite in theUnited States weo level on the rhythmic phase. This gives us great heart in specific places and we are