Reopening efforts as opposed to a complete shutdown. Dr. Factory spoke at a Health Hosted by the hill. Hello and welcome. I am steve clements. I am in a mask. And going to take it off now, but i want to send a message. We believe in mask wearing here. Were delighted to have you. More than ever before, our health is at stake. As we work to quell a Global Pandemic that has taken 500,000 lives, globally, it has exposed deep fissures and equity. It was under stress long before covid19 attacked us. Now we have an opportunity and responsibility to fix those gaps and make sure innovation is accompanied by prescription for affordability and access. I would like to thank our sponsor for their support of todays summit. We have a fantastic lineup of speakers for todays event, which will take place in three parts. You will hear from the highest Public Health officials in the country. The first hour, which we will kick off with an interview with dr. Fauci, will examine prescriptions from the pandem
Theseard some of questions wrapped around the surging equity markets that we saw yesterday. Jon is going to do the data in a bit. We saw a pullback in the data this morning. Butee it in bonds as well, a most interesting day all in all. You centered your data checks on the mystery of the u. S. Dollar. We are going to address that in a bit, but it is still a remarkably resilient u. S. Dollar. Jonathan and a hugely divisive debate at the moment about geographical bias. A lot of people focused on that word divergence. What is the reopening we can depend on . Is it not the United States . That is the question that has come up continually. For this recovery, the reopening, it will be bumpy and we will see a lot of evidence of that today in australia. At theu mentioned this top of the last hour. To see melbourne on official relocked down, that was sobering. Of about 5ity Million People and a daily infection rate pushing 200. It is a different approach. It is about the science, yet the policy
Is also urging all americans to stay at home. America is engaged in a historic battle to safeguard the lives of our citizens, our future society, our greatest weapon is the discipline and determination of every citizen to stay at home. And stay healthy for a long time. The president said social distancing and staying at home seems to be having an effect on the spread of the virus. He specifically mentioned california, and noted have a number of cases here have not grown as rapidly as they have and other parts of esident appo nice to see you. I want to start with the action today by the president. To prevent the exporting of these n95 masks. Talk about the significance of that. Yeah, it is critical. With the shortage that we are seeing across the country, in particular new york, to take the bold move to say that they are not going to allow hoarding or exporting so that directive went to fema, they partner with the department of justice, and what he is saying is any type of ppe has to st
Tested positive. Now, just to be clear, no deaths reported here at this hospital. The two people taken to the hospital, we dont know their conditions. Well have an update on this story coming up at 6 00. Reporting live from orinda, im cheryl hurd. Nbc bay area news. Okay. Well talk to you soon. Thanks, cheryl. Lets look at the latest numbers around the bay area. Santa clara county the hot zone added 75 new cases for a tote after 1,094. San francisco county adding 47 cases now at 497. Statewide, were at just under 12,000 confirmed cases. Nationwide, 239,000 cases. Weve been saying it for 24 hours. But today President Trump recommended everyone wear face coverings in public. Its voluntary. You dont have do it. They suggested for a period of time. The president says the cdc hopes the move will help stop the spread of covid19. But the president also added that he probably will not wear a mask. Nbc bay area Jodi Hernandez is live with a look at how people are responding to this mask recomme
From the residents who have tested negative. And are a systematic. We have advised that the staff do not intermingle between these two groups. Rather dedicated staff are assigned to work with one group only. Reporter tests will be conducted regularly to monitor the spread. Now to San Francisco where the police chief is announcing the first citation for violating the social distancing order. Christian is live in the city were leaders are urging residents to of course shelter in place. San francisco has been on lockdown for 2 1 2 weeks. Officials stress that social distancing and Health Orders are still the greatest tools to stop the spread of coronavirus. By and large the police chief says residents are following the orders but he says his officers have issued one citation to a business that repeatedly flouted the order, and an individual who refuse to shelter in place. If we had to go back were not going to ask twice. We have had to cite a business in the last 24 hours and we have cite