I think the u. S. Government could have really taken that and added to that momentum and gotten some significant changes to the world health organization, could have gotten support for a thorough investigation, independent, external investigation into the actions of the world health organization. And the potential influence of china over its decision making. Unfortunately with the announcement that the u. S. Is going to cut funding, now everybody is focused on that. [no audio] good afternoon. Sorry to be a few minutes late. A lot of ground to cover today. We have a video call with the white house and this is a lot of. Round to cover the realities sunday, is meaningful to me, by telephone. Thank you both for being here so we will get right to the numbers. Have positive test results. 5. 317 New Jerseyans ,317 new tested 75 jerseyans who have tested positive. As a 10 00 p. M. Last night, 1800 of 80 were listed as critical or in intensive care. 46 patients are at one of these locations. Ha
Thank you for coming, i am joined by the woman to my right the commissioner of, judy and to her right department of Health Medical director doctor ed. Good to have you with us. Into my left superintendent col. Pat callahan. Director of the Department Office of homeland security, we will get right to the numbers and we have a lot of ground to cover. So you could please bear with us. Since our briefing yesterday, we have had 1982 new positive tests bringing our statewide total to 8825. In addition, we have lost another 27 precious souls of our fellow new jersey population to covid19 related complications. We have now lost a total of 108 precious lives. We mourn with these families and indeed with our entire state every precious life that has been lost. God rest their souls and as usual, judy will be giving you more color and the details of these both positive cases as well as General Information about the lives that we have lost. My thoughts indeed our thoughts are also with the women an
Good afternoon. Im chuck todd. Here are the facts at this hour. Any moment were expecting to hear from new Jersey Governor Phil Murphy on whether schools will remain closed in the state. That as andrew cuomo is saying hes sending 100 ventilators to new jersey. And although hospitalizations in his state are down. New jersey likely coordinates with new york on that one. In about two hours, President Trump will join a teleconference with governors to discuss federal guidelines for reopening their states. And the Labor Department officially announced another 5. 2 Million People filed initial unemployment claims last week. Fourth consecutive week of essentially record jobless claims. This latest number means the u. S. Economy has erased nearly all job gains since the Great Recession ended in 0809. We have a team of reporters all over the country right now to bring you the facts as we know them this hour. First, a tragic story out of new jersey thats part of a bigger crisis facing this count