Coronavirus restrictions. At c. E. O. Iran last defies knocked on the orders to restart production at the companys kind of one year process he says hes willing to go to jail to keep the assembly minds rolling. Hello im christine want to welcome to the program the coronavirus and their make has brought the work of mrs into sharp focus as they struggle to care for patients suffering from close at 98 and today on International Nurses day nurses around the world all speaking out to demand better protection as they risked their lives to do their jobs this nurses day also marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of a pioneer of modern nursing Florence Nightingale. The original queen of hygiene Florence Nightingale she revolutionized Battlefield Medicine june the crimean war and laid the foundations for modern nursing on tuesday nurses in sri lanka celebrated her 200th Birthday Well also honoring the tartus work of nurses all around the world. At the demand event that in many of us they were
Rafael espinal from Freelancers Union talks about the impact of the pandemic on the selfemployed. Washington journal is next. Good morning, this is washington journal, for april 2. We want to hear from you about your level of confidence in the u. S. Health versus to treat those affected by coronavirus. What you are seeing and experiencing in your community and we especially want to hear from you if you are a Health Care Worker in the field and you want to give your perspective on the u. S. Health care system possibility to treat coronavirus. In the easternu and central time zones, give us a call at 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain pacific time zones, its 202 7488001. If you are a medical professional, you can call in at 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003. Tweet at cspan wj or post on our Facebook Page, facebook. Com cspan. On latest numbers coronavirus are available at the Johns Hopkins website. When it comes to the u. S. , as far as the numbers they have coming in wit
You miss any of our live coverage of the governments response to the coronavirus outbreak, watch it any time at cspan. Org coronavirus. From daily briefings by the president and the White House Task force to updates from the hardest hit states, it is all there. Use the maps to track the viru and track cases county by county. It is an easy way to watch cspans unfiltered coverage of this pandemic. Our first guest of the morning joins us from washington, d. C. , the editor of health care dive to talk about the state of hospitals during the coronavirus outbreak. Good morning to you. You. Guest good morning. Host a little bit about healthcare dive to begin with, what is it . Guest it is an online publication, and every morning the newsletter comes out gear towards health care tives with stories and analysis they need to know. Letters, one more focused on insurance companies, and the others are on health issues. Host since this goes to executives, i imagine many executives are on the boards
Hello and welcome to a covid 19 special. South dakotas have a lot of questions about the coronavirus. They also have questions about the decisions being made in an effort to slow down the spread. Joining me to help answer some of those questions live, we have governor kristi noem, secretary with the south Dakota Department of health, kim malsamrysdon, and the commissioner of the Governors Office of Economic Development, steve westra. Welcome to all of you. Thank you. We are going to continue to take questions tonight. You can send those via text or email. Our phone number to send a text is 9567372. We are going to get started. We have been receiving questions for the last day and a half. All of those that we will be asking tonight have come from south dakotas except this first one. Governor, i will start with you. You shared some encouraging news with south dakota during your first conference. You spoke to the number of projected hospital beds that we thought would be needed when south
To decrease the risk of this continued transmission of this virus to other staff, other residents or outside the facility. Public Health Officials are now investigating and testing at two other senior care facilities in contra costa county. This pandemic is showing no signs of slowing down in california. Johns hopkins reporting there is more than 11,000 confirmed cases in the state. The bay area saw its total top 3,000 cases with Santa Clara County accounting for about a third of those. The number of patients in icu beds around the state now over 900. Thats about four times the count from just last friday. Ysisffs areal cos police chief siness owners found violating Public Health orders. Weve had to cite a business in the last 24 hours, and weve cited individuals in the last 24 hours. And these are people that have been warned before. Chief bill scott says there will be no more second chances. Anyone or any business found violating the rules a second time will be cited. Meanwhile, toda