Addressing it, we are joined by Lori Trammell freeman, the ceo of the National Association of county and city Health Officials. Thank you. Host tell us about your association. What is its role and mission . Guest the National Association of county and city Health Officials, we are the National Nonprofit the represent local that represents nearly local 3000 Health Departments across the country in a number of ways. We provide them with resources and publications and guidance. We also are a liaison between our Health Department and the federal agencies. The cdc, health and human services, fema and others. And we basically advocate on their behalf, to ensure that our Government Public Health system is resourced in the correct ways. Host how are most city and county local Health Officials funded . Guest they are funded through their state primarily, our federal government, typically at allocate Health Funding to the states. States across the country, Public Health activities in their commu
Officials, discusses the rising number of cases in several states. Nicole clowers discusses her ys reports of how relief funds from congress are being spent. The u. S. Supreme court is wrapping up its term this week, issuing decisions in cases heard earlier in the term. One of those decisions upholds the Electoral College, by saying electorsfaithless defy the will of the voters. Welcome to the washington journal. It is four months until election day. We will start asking you about the Electoral College. Should the Electoral College be abolished . Isyou think so, that line 202 7488000. If that answer is no, the line is 202 7488001. We welcome your comments on text. The line 202 7488003. We are on twitter. Facebook. Com cspan. Is expected to issue more decisions this week, wrapping up its term. A little Electoral College oneonone from the national archives. A little Electoral College 101 from the national archives. The number of electors is equal to the number of members in the congressi
Nonprofit the represent local Health Departments across the country in a number of ways. Them with resources and publication, we also are a liaison between our Health Department and the federal agencies. The cdc, health and human services, fema and others. And we basically advocate on , our Government Public Health system. How are most city and county local Health Officials funded . Funded through their , our federally at ment, typically allocate Health Funding to the states. In the states can also, have their own funding the resource the local Health Departments as well. What are some of the challenges you are hearing from the heroes from those across the country since the start of the pandemic. Everything is hyper escalated , the other things that are on with the threat like covid19, our health permits under extreme duress. The can address the disease that have the other resources on the ground. That are used to mitigate the disease. Without pointing out individual counties or cities
I. Q. With a coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold with cases now topping 3700000 with 260000 reported deaths now here in the u. S. Theres more than 1000000 cases and 7071000 deaths as the number of infections are decreasing in some states others havent even reached their peak yet still more than half of the country is easing restrictions but over in california an interesting phenomenon is taking place as its Homeless Population takes advantage of the strain airflight travel and begin to set up tent at the airport parties and tasha sweet has those details from l. A. X. One of the busiest airports in the country is nearly empty flights are limited with travel restrictions in place some are utilizing l. A. X. As a place to call home for at the time being airports like travelers in los angeles theyre now seen more homeless and some say they believe the impure airports are a safe place to be right now making it easier to social distance then i. On the streets according to l. A. X. Polic
With a few Public Health data slides and then a little look t where were going. You have seen this before. It is updated. The gray are the cumulative cases that we have had in vermont. We are in the low 8507bs for cases. These 800s for cases. These are the new cases. It is coming into that more plateaued type of phase. This is called anepicurve. The new cases on a daytoday basis. We were pretty accustomed to an average of 3040 cases with occasional times where we peaked here in middle here. At 50 there. This is way back in early march. Started doing things like limits on mass gatherings, closing the restaurants and bars and eventually schools. And then in this time frame the actual stay home, Stay Safe Program began. Several weeks beyond that, we have come from a peak and generally below 10 cases over he last week on a daytoday basis and finally this is a graph of the number of tests we have done in verbatim. Vermont. You see they range from 300 to 00 or 700 over time. This is the perc