State Health Officials are responding, from austin this is 50 minutes. I cannot tell if youre ready or not. Its good to go. All right, very good i want to thank everybody for being here today, we are here today to let texas know about the abundant Hospital Capacity that exist to treat texans who may test positive for covid19. Now understand the context that were dealing with, we are in the middle of a short period of time where all of us have to coexist with covid19 and the reality is, covid19 still exist in texas, it exists in the United States as well as across the entire world. This is going to continue to be the case for at least a few more months until we have medicines that are able to treat people who test positive for covid19 and until we have medicines that can prevent people from getting covid19. Remember this, go back to march and april earlier this year when there was a nationwide effort to slow the spread of covid19 so we would be able to prevent hospitals fr being overrun
Map and putting in over 40 of americas states. That gives you a sense of the magnitude of the state of california and the magnitude of our responsibility to approach our response in a way that addresses the needs of different parts of the state of california, different regions. Accordingly, we of long talked about our approach to addressing the issues of covid19, it spread and our suppression strategies have to be from the frame, bottomup. We have talked about the fact that localism is determinative. We recognize local conditions are just inked and unique from one another and we recognize that conditions in far reaches of california and northern parts of the state are very different than in the San Francisco bay area and very different from the loss in los angeles region. And accordingly, we have afforded the ability for local Health Records Health Directors working collaboratively with advocates and elected officials to make determinations for themselves on when to move forward throug
That gives you a sense of the magnitude of the state of california and the magnitude of our responsibility to approach our response in a way that addresses the needs of different parts of the state of california, different regions. Accordingly, we of long talked about our approach to addressing the issues of covid19, it spread and our suppression strategies have to be from the frame, bottomup. We have talked about the fact that localism is determinative. We recognize local conditions are just inked and unique from one another and we recognize that conditions in far reaches of california and northern parts of the state are very different than in the San Francisco bay area and very different from the loss in los angeles region. And accordingly, we have afforded the ability for local Health Records Health Directors working collaboratively with advocates and elected officials to make determinations for themselves on when to move forward through our phased in approach. As many of you have h
Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining todays briefing on covid19 in North Carolina. As of today, we have 41,249 Lab Confirmed cases. 1760 new cases reported today , a new high. 760 people in the hospital, and sadly 1092 deaths. Dying from covid19 or mourning a loved one who right now can be isolating and difficult. We are praying for all those who are suffering now. Today, our concern is growing about the increase in cases and hospitalizations in North Carolina. This is also happening in many states across the country. While our hospitals still have this can we know change quickly. So we are working with hospitals and tracking hospitalizations and icu beds closely. Today is North Carolinas highest day of new cases since the pandemic started, and it is also the highest day of testing that weve had with over 21000 tests reported. But the high number of new cases is not just related to more testing. These numbers show the disease is spreading, that more people need hospital car
Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining todays briefing on covid19 in North Carolina. As of today, we have 41,24 1760 new cases reported today , a new high. 760 people in the hospital, and sadly 1092 deaths. Dying from covid19 or mourning a loved one who right now can be isolating and difficult. We are praying for all those who are suffering now. Today, our concern is growing about the increase in cases and hospitalizations in North Carolina. This is also happening in many states across the country. While our hospitals still have this can we know change quickly. So we are working with hospitals and tracking hospitalizations and icu beds closely. Today is North Carolinas highest day of new cases since the pandemic started, and it is also the highest day of testing that weve had with over 21000 tests reported. But the high number of new cases is not just related to more testing. These numbers show the disease is spreading, that more people need hospital care. This has to be take