Good morning and welcome to Washington Post live i am eugene scott a political reporter of the Washington Post and i would like to welcome our first guest this morning assistant Health Secretary at hhs and a member of president Trumps Coronavirus Task force admiral brett, thank you so much for joining me. Good morning it is great to be here with you this morning, thank you for the invitation. I got that correct right. I am from deep down in louisiana and thats pretty darn close, that is a great first try at that. Great, admiral you the white house and lead developer of the hhs wire Public Health policy recommendation so i was hoping you could give us an overview of the Current Situation on the ground today. The situation on the ground with the pandemic, i think everyone understands that similar to where we were post memorial day, we had a significant increase in the number of cases, the hospitalizations are starting to go up as well and we do however, know how to defeat the pandemic to
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Be here with you this morning, thank you for the invitation. I got that correct right. I am from deep down in louisiana and thats pretty darn close, that is a great first try at that. Great, admiral you the white house and lead developer of the hhs wire Public Health policy recommendation so i was hoping you could give us an overview of the Current Situation on the ground today. The situation on the ground with the pandemic, i think everyone understands that similar to where we were post memorial day, we had a significant increase in the number of cases, the hospitalizations are starting to go up as well and we do however, know how to defeat the pandemic to control it until we can get vaccines and youve heard this so many times before but physical distancing is important, wearing the mask when you cannot physically distant is really essential, the American People have done a good job, we do rank among the top in the world and mask wearing that weve got to get better as well as doing th
Last 10 years. That doesnt get it done. Guess what . Job cuts. Lisa how much more can Central Banks do to juice job growth at a time of zero Interest Rates . I find it fascinating that coke is offering voluntary separation programs with its employees, read, job cuts. More interestingly, yesterday salesforce. Com, one of the winners of this, and also job cuts. Tom cocacola managing the message as they always do. I dont know what their cute phrases for firings. Lisa separations. Tom exactly. That is just as phony as all of the rest of the. What is so important in that set of announcements across the bloomberg, as they make clear this is an International Strategy to right size on 86,000 employees right now, what we really need is a morning brief. Where you start . Lisa at 8 30, ancient history, which is u. S. July income and spending data for individuals. This is very backward looking based on how quickly the jobless benefits are running out and the changing scenario. We are also going to
To get more sick anyway and of course this is a time when makeable says there are too many details where there are similar problems but all the different states have found Different Solutions so that is the idea of this meeting so i know about is very punctual normal normally and weve been waiting for this press conference to start i think we can have a quick look in the chancery where we still only see empty chairs quite a bleak picture you know were probably wondering why does it take so long and of course we have colleagues. At the press conference shes sitting in that room waiting of course shes hearing all the whispers whats going on behind the scenes and i think youve been texting with her didnt want to see you say well its funny would you say that she wrote to text me and said well clearly mrs markland state premiers are getting less good at timing but they are Getting Better at building up the drama to present details rather than breakthroughs. And i think this is something we