Of tests that were positive was 5. 3 , which is encouraging. Have 61 newy, we do deaths to report today. You have been hearing me report similar numbers for a long time now. I do not want anybody to think that these are really numbers. These are people. This is very tragic. Forwardy much looking to the day when the number of deaths is zero. It is true as we reported last week that the number of deaths is higher than we would expect it to be, given the number of cases that we have and the rate of transmission. We are continuing to look at. Hat and figure out why that is currently, we have 1006 hundred 1056tients hospitalized patients hospitalized. Interestingly, today we look back to number five in the nation. We had slid down to six yesterday. We traded spots with rhode island today. Speaking of testing, the best ins that we had yesterday the White House Coronavirus task force telephone conference with the nations governors was the commitment that the federal. Overnment made native. Lo
Pressure wont drive our decision making. The science, the data, Public Health will drive our decision making. We set forth a week ago a deep dive on one familiar indicater around testing and tracing, track, issues of isolation and quarantine. Today i want to update you on another indicater specific to businesses, schools and child care facilities. Another indicater specific to businesses, schools and child care facilities. First i want to remind all of you what the six indicaters are. Mentioned testing as one of the principal indicaters, we have made progress in that space. Not nearly where we want to go and need to be but Real Progress we are now see in the space. 578,000 tests have been conducted in the state of california. We averaging over 20,000 tests a day. And we are well on our way to meeting our 25,000 testing goal and getting to 60,000 to 80,000 very shortly thereafter. I mentioned just yesterday optum serve that was doing the endtoend tests, deployed at 80 additional locatio
Hospitalizations continue to decrease. Governor lamont also announced that connecticuts Contact Tracing program will be in partnership with microsoft. Pron partnership with microsoft. Good afternoon, everybody. Daily briefing with paul and josh, and backed by popular demand, dr. Matt carter, our state epidemiologists. He has brought Christine Soto with him. Christine is in expert on track and trace, and that will be the focus of our discussion here this afternoon. You look at our daily summary , i think of most interest to me, i usually dont spend as much time on positive cases because that is simply a function of how much testing we are doing. 2000 test performed, and only 315 positive cases. 315 is the lowest we have had in weeks, and thats about a 16 or so test rate, so we will see if that indicates anything. Only 315, i dont mean it. Tomorrow, folks are going to bye who were both afflicted covid, tested positive, you may , he one is rudy marconi will be here to talk about his , and
Mind at 2280, it is still a double digit advance on the year, but its the technology falloff thats getting a lot of attention here. Its led by amazon but concerns as well that the Technology Sector is not immune from some of these issues and then we throw in oil, whats happening with exxonmobil and chevron, as expected, reporting some lousy numbers. Its all weighing on the markets this first trading day of the month. Here to detail that, jackie deangelis. Hey, jackie. Jackie good afternoon, neil. Thats right. This really highlights the fact that earnings matter when it comes to the stock market. You take into account the fact that these companies were reporting earnings that only account for about two weeks of the Coronavirus Impact and we wonder whats going to happen when we get the Second Quarter numbers. But amazon and apple are really weighing today and amazon just shows you, its one of the stocks that everybody has left because theyre saying amazon is doing well during this, peopl
Next, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo updates his states response to the coronavirus outbreak. He announced a producing partnership with regional states for more personal protective equipment, ventilators and test kits. Gov. Cuomo good afternoon. Good to see you all here today. Properly socially distanced. For those of you who do not know, to my right is melissa derosa. To my left is robert mojica. Always happy. Smiling. Today is sunday. Beautiful day in new york city. Sunday for me is a day of reflection. Do a little reflecting. Today is day 64 since we closed down new york. Only 64 days. Feels like a lifetime. Only 64 days. Todays numbers, the total hospitalization rate is down. That is good news. 9786. Below 10,000, which is a big deal for us. You have to go back to may 18, 19th to get near that number. March, im sorry. The total number of hospitalizations is down. The number of intubations is down. Intubation is generally bad news. The number of new cases is 789. That is good news.