Me represents a covid patient who was treated and released from the midcity hospital successfully. We have about 40 hearts. We hope that over the next several weeks we will have many more of these hearts. I want all of you out there, clinicians, the community, military, state, local government, to know that each one of you is a little bit of the part of the heart in here with us. And without your help we wouldnt have been able to do this. So thank you very much, and im going to introduce governor edwards now, who will have a few words of encouragement. Thank you for all of us, and perhaps a little bit of a briefing in terms of what he is expecting in the coming days. Thank you. Gov. Edwards thank you, and thank all of you for coming out this morning. Its a pleasure to be with you, although we all wish we were not here in these circumstances. And i want to thank all the people at baton rouge general, at this facility and at the other campus and for the work that youve all been doing for
Gov. Bel edwards good afternoon. Thank you for being here. This will serve as the briefing on the Severe Weather that was and mynced yesterday Daily Briefing on covid19. Local to thank all of the officials who joined us today. I know we have mayor Stacy Albritton mitchell and other elected officials including senator katrina jackson, senator jay morris, representative mike echols. We also have representative jones, i think. We do, right there. It is good to see you, fred. After i speak you will hear from congressman ralph abraham. We also have with us, as i have aen every day in baton rouge, doctor from the department of health and he can answer specific questions when it comes to covid19 testing and other things related to the coronavirus. We just completed a tour of some of the tornado damage across north louisiana. Tornadoese two confirmed. Thatain one was an ef to had a wind speed up to 120 miles per hour. I want to thank everyone for wearing a mask. It is critically important you
Watch ondemand anytime, unfiltered, at cspan. Org coronavirus. Announcer next, louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards updates his states response to the coronavirus outbreak. Gov. Edwards welcome to midcity. Welcome. And i want to thank all of you for coming here today so we can share a little bit of what we are doing here today, along with the collaboration with the state government, the local government , and with the military. Each one of these hearts behind patientsents a covid who was treated and released from the midcity hospital successfully. We have about 40 hearts. We hope that over the next several weeks we will have many more of these hearts. I want all of you out there, clinicians, the community, military, state, local government, to know that each one of you is a little bit of the part of the heart in here with us. Without your help we would not have been able to do this. So thank you very much, and im going to introduce governor edwards now, who will have a few words of enco
Or wherever you have to be wherever you happen to be tuning in on your radio or television or your computer. By thebe followed secretary of the department of children and family services. She has updates on nutrition and snap benefits. Doctorstill have the here to answer specific questions about health care testing, that sort of thing. I want to start out by thanking the medical professionals of all types who are working all across louisiana aerobically every single day. I want to thank all of the Health Care Professionals working heroically every single day. I know that today President Trump declared it National Doctors day and i want to join him in saluting our doctors and thanking them. They are absolutely on the front lines today and every day. We would not be able to come close to managing this emergency without our frontline physicians. We still have the same imperatives we have been working on for the last few weeks, to flatten the curve, slow the spread of this disease, and mak
We talked about the health and hospital corporation, one of the new york city public hospitals. It is struggling. We leave the last few minutes of this briefing to take you live to baton rouge where the governor is giving a response to the coronavirus there. You are watching live coverage on cspan. We have some updates around nutrition, particularly snap benefits. We still have dr. Alex review ryu to answer questions about health care and testing, that sort of thing. Thent to thank all of Health Care Professionals working heroically every single day. Today President Trump declared it National Doctors day and i want to join him in saluting our doctors and thanking them. On the frontlutely lines today and every day. Comeuld not be able to close to managing this emergency without our frontline physicians. Have the same imperatives we have been working on for the last few weeks, to flatten the curve, slow the , and makethis disease sure that people dont all seek medical care at the same ti