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Welcome back to Washington Post live. Im bob costa, National Political reporter here at the Washington Post. Joining the is Governor Gretchen Whitmer of michigan, a democrat. She was elected in 2018 after a long career in state politics, including serving in the state legislature. She was minority leader of the michigan senate. A few months ago, you may remember, it feels like a long time ago, she delivered the democratic response to President Trumps state of the union. Governor whitmer, welcome. Based on the data and whats happening in your state, are you thinking about extending the stayathome order in michigan beyond may 1 . Gov. Witmer theres no question we have to be slow and methodical and Pay Attention to the data, medical experts and Public Health experts to know we are ready, and then what does it look like when we do begin to reengage . And be mindful there are different sectors of the economy, different regions of the state, for instance. We will be really data driven, we ha
Just ahead, the president of the American Medical Association. The impact the coronavirus is having on tourism and the convention business. Our phones a lot our phone lines are open. [indiscernible] , 202 7488001, and if youre a medical professional, 202 7488002. We begin with the numbers courtesy of johns Johns Hopkins university. 1. 6 million confirmed cases and around the world, more than 100,000 deaths, of those, more than 18,000 in the u. S. Our countries dealing with 490,000 cases of covid19 across all 50 states, washington dc and the territories. Six members of congress have been battling covid19, including senator rand paul, representative joe cunningham, representative neal dunn and congressman mike kelly of pennsylvania and ben mcadams of utah. Fromsixth member joins us his home in miami, representative Mario Diazbalart from florida. How are you feeling tonight . . Epresentative diazbalart i am welcome i feel recovered, i am still weak but other than that i feel pretty well.
Good afternoon. Welcome back to Washington Post. Ive im bob costa, National Political reporter here at the Washington Post. Joining the is Governor Gretchen Whitmer of michigan, a democrat. She was elected in 2018 after a long career in state politics, including serving in the state legislature. A few months ago, you may remember, it feels like a long time ago, she delivered the democratic response to President Trumps state of the union. Governor whitmer, welcome. Based on the data and whats happening in your state, are you thinking about extending the stayathome order in michigan beyond may 1 . Witmer theres no question we have to be slow and methodical and Pay Attention to medical experts and Public Health experts to know we are ready, and then what does it look like when we do begin to reengage . And be mindful there are different sectors of the economy , different regions of the state , for instance. We will be really data driven, we have a rigorous exercise we are going through to
Welcome back to Washington Post live are you thinking about extending the stayathome order . We have to be slow and methodical and listen to the data and their Health Experts to know that we are ready, and what does it look like when we begin to reengage . There aremindful that different sectors of our economy and regions of our state. So we are going to be really datadriven. Wehave rigorous exercises are going through to plan this work. The odds are that everybody that will resume life as normal is zero. It will be slow, and we need to continue the process we currently are in, a ramp of slower risk and we can do safely. Form of order will continue, but we will start to slowly reengage sectors of our economy in a way that keeps employees and customers safe. What kind ofup, sectors could be open in may . My order is one of the most aggressive in the nation and i think that we can look to what other states have been doing as we assess beyond that first wave, and there will be , we are as