She is the first africanamerican woman to hold the position and brings to the role several decades as a physician in private practice. Took office in june of 2019, dr. Harris planned to pledge her work to the front line of the opioid crisis. Toay, dr. Harris is here talk with us about an entirely different Public Health crisis, why in this era of conspiracy theories and fake news she believes we must return to a reliance on scientific facts, data, and trusted sources. Dr. Patrice harris, welcome to the National Press club. Our virtual podium is yours. Thank you, greetings, i am dr. Patrice harris, president of the American Medical Association. The coronavirus pandemic presents a challenge the world has not faced on this scale for generations. Said thatn extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. We are witnessing every day the physicians,ts of nurses, medical workers, Public Health professionals, and the public to manage the enormity of covid19 in our community. Callordinary
Featuring the winners of our studentcam documentary competition. Middleton High School Students answer the question what do most 2020 punta cana it is to address. Our second Prize Middle School winners were hunter tabor, caden smith and dylan stegemoller, 8th graders at Lora Batchelor middle school in bloomington, indiana. Is titleding entry educating americas youth, our top priority. Importantsingle most part of our democratic society. Where the most important things about america as we are an open, inclusive society. Great publicave schools. This is where than 90 of young people are and i think it is going to stay that way. It is important we take care of it. The First Public School in the 13 colonies was opened. Time, Public Education has become desegregated and more inclusive. It is bringing everybody together. Not only do we educate students within the classroom walls, but the Important Role of Extracurricular Activities and athletics. There is plenty of research that shows when s
Washingtons effort to address job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic. Is next. N journal one month ago today, President Trump declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic. With wyoming over the weekend, all 50 states have been declared Disaster Response areas. Good morning, its monday, april 13, 2020. This first hour we will ask about your thoughts on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic so far and how your state governor is handling the crisis. We will look at joe bidens just published plan to reopen america. Heres how to be a part of the discussion this morning. In the eastern and central time zones, but linus 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific, that line is 202 7488001. We welcome medical professionals, to hear from you. That live is 202 7488002 that line is. Is 202 7488002 you can text us at 202 7488003. We have facebook posts ready, we will show you those. As we begin the program yesterday, the New York Times had published a lengthy story on the lead up
Hospital system is not set up to enormous surge of patients pretty much anywhere. Full capacitystly and health care in the u. S. Is so expensive they cant afford extra beds hang around waiting for something to happen. The idea behind the National Strategic stockpile government eral would stockpile supplies and edication and as we have heard recently ventilators because hospitals themselves couldnt. Places are seeing is in that are very hard hit with people with a lot of are ications hospitals overwhelmed. We are seeing e a grinding e to lawsuit. Opped doing elective surgeries with things like hip replacements. Things that they make most of their money from. People are afraid to go to the doctor unless they have covid19. We are seeing primary care practices and specialty practices and things that are not respiratory basically start to lay people off. Host looking at the Health Insurance, is this overwhelming the Health Insurance part . Keeping in mind, as i understand it, didnt tested o
The Public Health Department Said there are more than 1,000 beds available no the 11 hospitals as well as almost 400 ventilators. Other shows how many have been tested for coronavirus and the number of those that have come back positive. Right now that is about 12 . The county wants people to have that information in as close to realtime as possible. We have doing everything we can to make sure we are ready for any surge when it happens. The only way that we can ensure we have the public trust is by being transparent about our efforts. And the governor is now speaking, giving the statewide update encore h1n1 efforts. Lets listen in. Freeenterprise for what it is, a healthy horse pulling a sturdy aginnstochurchill saying them, particularly milli filing for Unemployment Insurance. With the headlines that we have seen as a trend line for the last few weeks and march 12th of this year we started to see applications for Unemployment Insurance here in the state of california skyrocket. Now o