[cameras shuttering] ms. Mcenany good afternoon. I have an announcement for you on hospital funding as appropriated in the third phase of Coronavirus Relief. The Trump Administration will distribute a total of 12 billion to 395 hospitals across the country that have been hardest hit by the covid19 pandemic. These hospitals have collectively cared for 70 of the 184,000 americans that required hospital inpatient care. 10 billion of the 12 billion will go toward hospitals treating 100 or more covid19 admissions. H. H. S. Is just to bidding an is distributing an additional 2 billion to these 395 hospitals in proportion to the amount of care they provide to low income and uninsured patients. This is consistent with our effort to ensure americans who need federal government assistance the most receive it. We will be releasing a breakdown of the states receiving this funding and the counties receiving this funding. New york, new jersey, and illinois received the most funding by state, while n
Ms. Mcenany good afternoon. I have an announcement for you on hospital funding as appropriated in the third phase of Coronavirus Relief. The Trump Administration will distribute a total of 12 billion to 395 hospitals across the country that have been hardest hit by the covid19 pandemic. These hospitals have collectively cared for 70 of the 184,000 americans that required hospital inpatient care. 10 billion of the 12 billion will go toward hospitals treating 100 or more covid19 admissions. H. H. S. Is just to bidding an is distributing an additional 2 billion to these 395 hospitals in proportion to the amount of care they provide to low income and uninsured patients. This is consistent with our effort to ensure americans who need federal government assistance the most receive it. We will be releasing a breakdown of the states receiving this funding and the counties receiving this funding. New york, new jersey, and illinois received the most funding by state, while new york, new york, th
Republicans support the package the senate is going to stand together act together and pass this short relief package good i like all compromises this bill is far from perfect but we believe the legislation has improved sufficiently to warrant its quick consideration and passage. The treasury secretary was at the center of the negotiations that led to the bills passage how do we make sure that American Workers who needed to keep getting paid this is no fault of their own that businesses have been shut down the president and Vice President want to make sure those hardworking americans got money and this was the most efficient way of doing it President Trump says hell sign the bill a soon as possible expressing the hope that it will speed up a return to normality and an easing of the shutdown and really claiming that some opponents are using the crisis to homme his election chances late to the c. M. I think there are certain people that would like it not to open so quickly i think there
Situation under control by. Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but we when and when. I said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter i think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make that a reality but top u. S. Health official anthony found he downplayed the president s. Timeline. Thats really very flexible we we just had a conversation with the president in the oval office talking about you know you can look at a day but youve got to be very flexible and on the on it literally day by day require week basis you need to evaluate the feasibility of what youre trying to do you need to know more about what the penetrance is there so if we do the kind of testing we were doing and testing will always be associated by identifying cation isolation and contact racing and you find after a pe
For the virus after going into self quarantine 2 days ago and how long will it take the Global Economy to recover year cd predicting the ravages of the virus on economies will outlast the pandemic itself. Its good to have you with us the head of the World Health Organization says the 1000 virus continues to outpace efforts to contain it and that cases of the infection are accelerating more than 15000 people globally have died of the infection heres what the head of the w. H. O. Said just a few hours ago. More than 300000 cases of corbett 19 have now been reported to w. H. O. From almost every country in the world now its heartbreaking the pun demick is accelerating it took 67 days from the 1st reported case to reach the 1st 100000 cases 11 days for the 2nd 100000 cases and just 4 days for this. 100000 cases theres some disturbing numbers there for more im joined now by christiane lyn meier he is a spokesperson at the World Health Organization and joins us tonight from Geneva Switzerlan