Good morning. Today we are going to provide an update on covid19 testing, personal protective equipment, Hospital Capacity, and a rundown on the approach we have taken to supporting our nursing home community. Worked towe have dramatically scale up our testing capacity. Thats because we believe testing is crucial not only to our current efforts to understand the spread of this disease but because it will play a Critical Role over the longterm term as we work through decisions around reopening parts of our community. We are continuing to make progress. As of yesterday we conducted a , total of 126,551 tests. Testsncludes a new 4500 conducted yesterday which were conducted at 28 sites across the mouth across the commonwealth. This makes massachusetts one of the leading states in the country with respect to testing. We are grateful to our colleagues in the medical community. These laboratories are a big part of massachusetts progress on this front. That includes quest diagnostics, the bro
The time we were in office. It is substantially more than a hundred. We will get the exact number because i know you would not want me too have that wrong. They dont like that. We are up over hundred times for the stock market that means jobs and companies are moving back into the United States that left and we had Many Companies coming back, the employment numbers are at a record, we are very close and we just got a new number on africanamerican employment is the best its ever been and you can take employment or unemployment is the best numbers its ever been. So were very proud what is happened to our economy. In a few month ago you are predicting a recession and perhaps someday there will be a recession but we have a long way to go. The consumer has never been stronger in working to make the consumer stronger with transparency because theyre going to get much better pricing hospitals so we can probably add this to the number and use all the Median Household Income for president bush
Thank you very much everybody its a great honor, the stock market is up big today. It set a new record, its the 22nd time this year. When it is over 100 times from the time we were in office. It is substantially more than a hundred. We will get the exact number because i know you would not want me too have that wrong. They dont like that. We are up over hundred times for the stock market that means jobs and companies are moving back into the United States that left and we had Many Companies coming back, the employment numbers are at a record, we are very close and we just got a new number on africanamerican employment is the best its ever been and you can take employment or unemployment is the best numbers its ever been. So were very proud what is happened to our economy. In a few month ago you are predicting a recession and perhaps someday there will be a recession but we have a long way to go. The consumer has never been stronger in working to make the consumer stronger with transpar
My name is Kathryn Martucci on the director of policy and programs at the alliance for Health Policy at i had the pleasure of welcoming you all on behalf of the alliance to our Breakfast Series for reporters. For those who are not thinly withfo the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization that is dedicated to convening and educating Health Policy community through a Balance Exchange of evidence. We are so thankful to bill pierce and Apco Worldwide for supporting the alliance and put it on this syrians with that support weve had the privilege of hosting many 15 guests and Panel Discussion over the past couple of years, including joe grogan and we are honored to welcome back to be properly you have the decision being our first repeat guest picky joined us about a year ago when is an associate director at omb and to look for doing about your new role and healthcare priorities as a director of the Domestic Policy Council. So thank you for being here again. Thank you to all of you for be
To welcome you all to her breakfast. For reporters if youre not familiar with the alliance a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to convening and educating the Health Policies and we are so thankful to support the alliance with the series with that support to see guest and Panel Discussions over the last couple of years including joseph rogan i believe you have the distinction to have our first repeat guest he joined us a year ago as an associate director we look forward to hearing about your new role and healthcare priorities for the Domestic Policy Council thank you for being here and we will get it started. On behalf of the alliance these are important alliances we believe strongly that wellinformed press is important to the washington dc world and the dialogue is important we really appreciate you joe willing to come and subject yourself to the questioning of this group. Senior director here. Joe and i have known each other for quite some time working in the Bush Administration toge