Is the coronavirus pandemic making it to treat other diseases in africa u. N. Agencies warned decades of progress in treating aids malaria and other illnesses could be reversed how do you decide what gets priority this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program on bird its. The coronavirus pandemic is putting enormous strain on Health Systems worldwide in some countries but means resources are being diverted from other treatments patients with illnesses such as age. Or malaria risk having their treatment interrupted 2 thirds of the global population living with hiv are in Subsaharan Africa if their antiretroviral therapy is are disrupted its fair hundreds of thousands could die the head of the World Health Organization is urging all countries to ensure Vital Health Services remain open this is on avoidable worst Case Scenario and not a prediction this model acts as a wake up call to identify ways to sustain all Vital Services despite our attention being focused on the could be 1000
Or on the line every day. Last week, we talked about how important testing is to our desire to reopen the economy while taking every appropriate measure to protect the lives and health of customers, staff, business owners, visitors and residents in every corner of our state. Today, we are very pleased to announce a partnership with idx it employs 3000 people in our state, and worldwide leader in the production of diagnostics is partnering with us to provide covid19 test material sufficient to more than triple our current Testing Capacity. While this a deal was and that works, we boarded for the fda and washington to give final emergency use approval to idexx new approval. That approval arrived this morning. This changes everything. For weeks, my administration has been in discussions with idexx to make sure people of wade would be the beneficiary of their new test kits should fda approve them. And now we have that approval. As a result of this partnership, the state of maine will have
Announced a new partnership with a local laboratory 11 the state to test more people for covid19. Her state or conference with state Public Health officials is about an hour. Gov. Mills good morning, good afternoon. We have good news for you today. 67 days, our Coronavirus Task force has worked day and night to provide the resources to make every man, woman, and child in maine safe. Has talkeddr. Shah about the critical need for testing of the virus in any number of settings, particularly when it comes to protecting our most Vulnerable People and our frontline workers whose lives are on the line every day. Who lives or on the line every day. Last week, we talked about how important testing is to our desire to reopen the economy while taking every appropriate measure to protect the lives and health of customers, staff, business owners, visitors and residents in every corner of our state. Today, we are very pleased to announce a partnership with idx it employs 3000 people in our state, a
Our lines are open. Host in the eastern or central time zone. In the mountain and pacific time zone, 202 7488001. Thank you for being with us. Numbers with the courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. More than 3. 1 million confirmed cases. Regions, the and death toll around the world in of 227,000. More than one million cases in the u. S. Joining us from boston is the president of of the anxiety and Depression Association of america and Program Director for the Community Psychology at Community Psychology at harvard medical center. Thank you for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. Host let me begin with information courtesy of the Kaiser Family foundation that puts this into perspective. Nearly 40 of americans have either lost a job or income as a result of covid19. 45 said the stress is affecting their Mental Health. One in five says it has a major negative impact. On the psyche of the average american, the mental healt of the average american, what does this mean . Guest we a
Fire following unrest over covert 900 Safety Measures. And we explore new york city from sunrise to sunset to find out what life really is like under on lockdown. Welcome to the program the u. K. Government is defending itself against criticism its mishandled the coronavirus pandemic the death toll continues to rise rapidly more than 16000. 00 people have died in hospitals across the country and the sunday Times Newspaper points the finger directly at Prime Minister Boris Johnson it accuses him of wasting precious time in stopping the spread paul brennan reports now from central london. The accusations of complacency a misjudgment to spread across 4 pages the headline a damning assessment of government failure to prepare the quotes alleged 5 weeks of missed opportunities and political in nashua the british Governments National Crisis Committee is called by the acronym cobra Prime Minister Boris Johnsons failure to attend any of the 1st 5 coronavirus koger meetings is singled out for pa