Next, remarks by democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders on the Coronavirus Response and what can be done to combat the virus. He spoke earlier today at an event in vermont. This is 20 minutes. Thanks very much everybody for being here. In the last few days, we have seen the crisis of the coronavirus continued to grow exponentially here in the United States and around the world. And we have witnessed a Global Economic meltdown, which will impact millions of workers in our own country. In terms of potential deaths, and in terms of the Economic Impact on our economy, the crisis we face from the coronavirus is on a scale of a major war. And we must act accordingly. Nobody knows what the number of fatalities may end up being, or the number of people who make it ill. We hope that number will be as low as possible. But we also have to face the truth, and that is that the number of casualties may actually be even higher than what the armed forces experience of world war ii. In other
Out of his still in the but love that we may keep one another healthy and safe. It will therefore be unusual but mr. Speaker this legislation represents a bipartisan resolve to me the coronavirus challenge. It represents a focus on families and workers to the objective to make them safer and economically supported. It will protect workers and their families and our economy as we all do our part to flatten the curve. Public Health Officials made it clear that the only chance we have to prevent them from getting overwhelmed is for as Many Americans to stay home as possible. It is however necessary to be here, to pass legislation, respond on behalf of thees American People to the daunting challenge. Closure means large parts of the economy are temporarily shut down causing severe disruption for businesses and workers. We saw the impact of this yesterday with the new Unemployment Insurance claims increased by more than 3 Million People. 3million individuals. 3million families rely on them
This graph. It tracks the outbreak here in california and you can see in february. The numbers were low Health Experts say thats because there was not as much testing look how the numbers climb today there are more than 4800 confirmed cases and 98 related deaths in california and those numbers are expected to rise as a number of coronavirus cases grows across the bay area and the state continues to go up. We are hearing from medical experts about what will happen and what it needs to happen to flatten out the curve. Cases are expected to grow but just how far up will they go before they finally level out kron fours dan thorn has the story california saw its biggest jump in coronavirus cases friday as almost 800 new cases were reported. As the state climbs towards 4,000 casein total what will it take to turn the tide experts say following publi Health Guidelines and continue to stay separated. California remains one of the states hardest hit by the coronavirus 2 weeks ago the state had
The global death toll still on the rise with more than 25000 people and nearly 555000 back to the United States now leads with the most confirmed cases in the world with more than 86000 infected and nearly 1300 fatalities new hotspots are emerging across the u. S. And chicago detroit and new orleans Vice President mike pence downplayed terms comments over reopening the economy by easter saying the president expressed really an aspirational goal as we continue to follow the data on thursday g. 20 leaders held a Virtual Meeting where they vowed to Work Together to combat the virus we talked about the problem. Will be. It states is working with their friends and partners around the world to stop the spread of the virus and coordinate their efforts we discuss how vitally important it is for all of our nations to immediately share information and data and weve been doing that to a large extent but well. Do it even more so in the meanwhile europe continues to see a surge in its numbers italy
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