The next proclamation will likely be issued on thursday and will be effective friday. We intend to leave it in place for 21 days. Which is june 5. The next time that we anticipate having an announcement like today will be june 1. We will not know what that announcement looks like until we get there and have the most recent data to look at. Like all decisions, this one involves a lot of time and work. I want to thank the department of health and dr. Billoux and his team. We wanted to make sure we were following the cdcvetted plan that was issued by the Coronavirus Task force and president trumps phased approach to reopening the country. I believe that we are striking the right balance with this plant. That balances between Public Health on the one hand and this Public Health emergency and reengaging more of the economy and getting more business is open, employers back to work, customers in the stores, restaurants, and so forth. Youre going to get more data in just a moment that is broke
With the conducting of normal activities in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic. Here is how you can express your thoughts. For those in the eastern and central time zones, 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain and pacific time zones, 202 7488001. For you medical professionals in the audience, it is 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003 washington journal. You can post on our twitter fee d. It was the Gallup Organization posting a poll yesterday asking people what they would like to see as far as returning to normal before they themselves return to normal activities. 80 said the one thing they would like to see is a mandatory quarantine for anybody testing positive for covid19 followed by improved medical therapies for treatment of covid19. 73 of those participating said they had to see a significant reduction in the number of new followed by 68 saying the availability of a vaccine to prevent covid19 and 61 saying they needed to see widespread testing to identify and monito
Information in a moment. He will be here to present information in a moment. We also have the commissioner to answer any questions you might have that pertain to what he has been doing. That will become more apparent in a moment. Anxiousverybody is about todays announcement. I will try to get to it. Data withussing the Public Health experts in the department of health, with epidemiologists, and the state of Louisiana Commission, and really, reviewing the data that we have been accumulating over the last couple of weeks, we will be moving to phase one on friday, may 15. But is this friday. So we will be lifting the stayathome order. The next proclamation will likely be issued on thursday, be effective on friday, and we intend to leave it in place for 21 days, which i think is the fifth. So the next time that we anticipate having an announcement like today will be on monday, june 1. Obviously we will not know what that amount will look like until we get there and have the most recent dat
Of the criteria we have to meet before we can move to phase one. Exactly what phase one looks like and what the timing is going to be and so forth, we will have more on that in the coming days. Reports, weesting are reporting 331 new cases of covid19 across the state of louisiana. And that is a smaller number of new cases than we have been reporting lately. That is the smallest in at least a week, and it is based on almost 6300 new tests, which are more tests. So that is a good sign. The total number of cases in is 24,854. Unfortunately, we did report today, 77 new deaths, and that is a total of 1405 across louisiana. The number of individuals in the hospital with a positive is 1798. Of covid19 t includes only four from that is an increase of four from yesterday. Remarkably, ventilator utilization trends and a positive way as well because even though we have more cases and more people in the hospital, we have 35 fewer deaths. So that is another good sign. As i mentioned yesterday, you
Jeff, i was waiting on you. Are you good . [laughter] , and thank you for tuning in. Obviously anus officer Public Health to take specific questions related to the virus and the disease and testing. We will also be joined in progress by a congresswoman who will be here. I do want to thank steve for the work he is doing and for the entire delegation. The work that they are doing on behalf of the country and the state of louisiana specifically the cares act and other things they have been working on, and i do know that the congresswoman has been appointed to the Advisory Council that the president will work with as he makes decisions about the guidance he is going to issue relative to reopening the economy, and certainly i think that is helpful for our state to have someone on that council. We also have the secretary of economic development, don pearson, who is here. He will be able to answer any questions about an announcement i will be making as part of this press conference around the