Networks, cspan. Org and with the free cspan radio app. West Virginia Governor jim justice holds everything with reporters on his states response to the coronavirus. He says states his states cases have been lower than average. From charleston, this is about 50 minutes. Hello, everyone. It is friday, may 8. We have got one really good thing to report. I hope several things, but the first thing that is the most important to me, we have not lost anyone since the last time i was here, yesterday. If you will follow the other states, the other states are losing hundreds a day. Every time we lose one, it is not good. Total. Lost 51 people please keep those people in your thoughts and prayers. Yesterday was a really important day, a national day of prayer. I am sure those families and those people, the great West Virginians we lost appreciate you. I am not going to read you through what has happened in week two and three of the reopening plan, which will begin this coming monday. Guidelines f
You and your family. We would love to hear from you. Our phone lines are open. For the eastern half of the country. 202 7488001 for the mountain and city time zones. 202 7488002 if you are a medical professional. We begin with the numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Around the world, 3. 1 million confirmed cases. The death toll in 185 countries is 216, almost 217,000. In the United States, the death toll has surpassed 58,000. Joining us from princeton, new jersey is the president and ceo of the Robert Wood Johnson foundation. He served as the former acting director of the cbc. Today, named on the restart and recovery commission. Thank you for being with us. Guest nice to be here. Host your region has the highest percentage of covid cases in the country. How do you balance the Public Health with the desire to reopen the economy . Everyone wants to get the economy back up and running. People are suffering. People are out of work. People lead income. You want to make sure that a
He is not a doctor either. Who else . Worked with me in the state for many years and has been a great talent here. It is a pleasure to be here today. We are at syracuse state university, the upstate medical school and hospital. Had a chance to say hello to the nurses and doctors who work ere. I wanted to say thank you for for all they have done here. He also sent a team down to new york city. So it has just been an extraordinary experience but we have seen the good, the bad and the ugly in all of this. The good is beautiful. Let me talk about some of the facts we are dealing with today. Facts are our friends, right. People want to know the facts without spin or opinion. That is what we have been giving them. Total hospitalization rate is down a tick, which is good news. The change in hospitalization is own. The number of independent bations is also down. The number of covid hospitalizations per day these are new people who are newly diagnosed with covid. It is under 1000, which is good
The spread of the virus. Join the conversation tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Next, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey holding a briefing with reporters on her states response to the coronavirus. She says testing remains a challenge in reopening alabama. This is 20 minutes. Gov. Ivey i am here to give an update on our stayathome order. This weekend is the projected peak of the illness. We look forward to seeing when these numbers start to decline so that we can make small progress. What we are doing is working. I plead with the people of alabama, keep doing what you are doing. Social distancing, personal hygiene, staying at home when you can. Our stayathome order stays in effect until april 30. Last week, i talked to you about the focus on my peoples safety and health to include also the Economic Health of our state. In my mind, those two have been closely in a whirlwind since the beginning. As most people can appreciate, this requires a strategic approach as well as a team effort to s