Yesterday there was no Task Force Briefing and none is scheduled for today. Now thursdays briefing. Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement act. Im grateful the congress is delivering these additional 320 billion dollars in relay for the American Worker and for Small Businesses. Time Many Americans are enduring significant canonic talent is. This bill will help Small Businesses keep millions of workers on the payroll. You see states starting to open up now and it is very exciting to see, aweinspiring. The are coming out of it and we are coming out of it well. And we are really, im very happy, the governors really have been doing a really good job, working with us, and it is pretty impressive to see. I have spoken to numerous leaders of countries over the last 48 hours. They are saying we are leading the way. Harvard andeased stanford and princeton and numerous other universities and businesses, large have sent funds back to us and in some cases i stopped funds that i lo
One tornado hit parts of georgia today. No reports of injuries. Stay at home orders remain in effect, and the contagion continues to worsen. As of this hour the chinese coronavirus labeled covid19 has affected 856,000 americans and killed 47,000 more. This as the Left Wing National Media once again pushing headlines that dont match stories. The Financial Times using leaked data from the World Health Organization to report that gileads drug remdesivir flopped in its first trial. The headline had investigators selling on wall street until gilead pointed out that study was terminated because it had low enrollment. And as such the study is simply inconclusive. Well have much more on this study. Also the latest developments in the fight against the virus later in the broadcast. There are breaking developments on capitol hill where house lawmakers are voting on a 484 million rescue bill to help Small Businesses to provide more money for hospitals and testing. The bills passage bringing Congr
Of containment began we started to repatriate the first flights coming from mainland china, from wuhan and elsewhere. The second phase was the mitigation phase and adopting strategies as we saw the first case of community spread, to advanced stayathome orders for the seniors and to begin the process of closing down our schools, populationbased strategies to mitigate spread which included at scale a statewide stayathome order, and then the efforts to continue to practice physical distancing. We then started to move into third phase and that phase could probably be described as the phase of surging, surging our system. Not only our Hospital System but alternative care system to meet a potential demanded that required not only physical assets, rooms, but also people and protective gear, insulators, masks, gowns, coveralls and the like. The next phase which i want to speak to all of you today about is a phase i would frame is an optimistic phase and that we move from surge and we begin to
City and our hospitals across the state in the fight against the covid19 pandemic. Placeacility will be a where coronavirus patients no longer require hospitalization and complete their care, and for and fully recover by providing additional 250 beds here, this Field Hospital expands the capacity of Baltimore City health care facilities, reduces the time that patients have to remain in our hospitals, and in turn will free up that critical capacity for other patients who need acute care more urgently. We have already assembled the physical facilities here in a very short time. A 24 7lements including staffing plan are currently underway. Schedule and we will be able to take care of patients here as needed. Undertakingge involving many people and i just want to take a moment to thank a few of them. First of all, i want to thank fema for delivering these hospital beds and other materials. I want to thank the Maryland National guard and their department of General Services team for working
He made the announcement while speaking to reporters about local efforts to combat the outbreak, including the formation of strike teams to help Nursing Homes dealing with an influx of cases. Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us today at the Baltimore City Field Hospital at the convention center, which represents a critical part of our ongoing efforts to support Baltimore City and our hospitals across the state in the fight against the covid19 pandemic. This facility will be a place where coronavirus patients who no longer require hospitalization can complete their care and fully recover, and by providing an additional 250 beds here, this Field Hospital expands the capacity of Baltimore City health care facilities, reduces the time that patients have to remain in our hospitals, and in turn will free up that critical capacity for other patients who need acute care more urgently. We have already assembled the physical facilities here in a very short period of time. And other elem