Employed workers can apply for benefits in many states. It looks like the actual peak in new unemployment claims may have occurred at the end of march and beginning of april. But that is cold comfort when you are still having millions of people applying every week. We will taking out to the governor with that News Conference this afternoon. My friend the governor of illinois, 21 out of the 24 largest student loan servicers in the state of california have agreed to a 90 day forbearance on Student Loan Debt impacting over 1. 1 million californians with loan debt. No burden now placed on them over the next 90 days. No impact to their credit rating, no late fees or fines and actual support in terms of getting new payment plans in place for future processing. I want to again congratulate jb on his leadership organizing this framework of profoundly important to student loan borrowers in the state of california. I want to applaud 21 of those 24 service loan providers or servicers for their wi
Overall, we have 130,000 people who tested positive. To 16,000 people in our Hospital System, 13,000 people have been discharged. Number of deaths are up once again. Number of people we lost, number 4758, which is up from 159, but which is effectively flat for two days. News,none of this is good the flattening of the curve is better than the increases we have seen. New york is still far and away the most impacted state. And new jersey is having real difficulty. Since speaking with governor murphy, anything we can do together, we will. Michigan, also. California has leveled off. And louisiana is having a difficult time, so they are in our thoughts and prayers. The total number of hospitalizations are down. The icu admissions are down. And the daily incubations are down. Those are all good signs. And would suggest a possible flattening of the curve. The number of discharged is down, but that reflects the overall reduction in the numbers. The big question we are looking at now is, what is
Once again this morning, for medical professionals we will use 202 7488002. If you would like to text us, that is 202 7488003. Just make sure that you include your name and where you are texting from. On twitter we are at cspan wj. You can also post your comments on facebook. You may have seen a moment ago the tracker that we are following, the johns Hop University tractor, cases at 609,000. Confirmed deaths, 26,059. Worldwide cases are just about 2 million now. The number that you see here, 7905 deaths in new york city, Scott Gottlieb tweeting this morning about that with a chart saying that the positivity rates of new daily tests in new york are showing signs of a gradual decline, but still very high. This is one data point to watch to gauge the direction of the new york epidemic. A different with story, the New York Times, reporting that a review among passedk city deaths has 10,000, new york city, already a world epicenter of the coronavirus out rake, sharply increasing its death t
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