Harm than good. And Health Emergency in mexico and latin american countries stepped up measures to combat the outbreak. Welcome to the program more than 4000 people in the u. S. Have now died from corona virus the u. S. President is warning americans to prepare for a very painful 2 weeks the country saw its highest single day death toll with more than 800 deaths on tuesday White House Health experts say the virus could kill up to 240000 people but without Government Intervention the number could rise to 10 times that mike hanna has more from washington d. C. For the 1st time the task force presented its predictions of where this pandemic may be heading saying this could now be done because of a more detailed flow of information from across the country the Scientists Say the virus could kill between 100240000 americans but without efforts like social distancing Counter Measures like shutdowns the toll could go. They modeled the worst Case Scenario of 1500000 to 2200000 deaths so what we
I think the u. S. Government could have really taken that and added to that momentum and gotten some significant changes to the world health organization, could have gotten support for a thorough investigation, independent, external investigation into the actions of the world health organization. And the potential influence of china over its decision making. Unfortunately with the announcement that the u. S. Is going to cut funding, now everybody is focused on that. [no audio] good afternoon. Sorry to be a few minutes late. A lot of ground to cover today. We have a video call with the white house and this is a lot of. Round to cover the realities sunday, is meaningful to me, by telephone. Thank you both for being here so we will get right to the numbers. Have positive test results. 5. 317 New Jerseyans ,317 new tested 75 jerseyans who have tested positive. As a 10 00 p. M. Last night, 1800 of 80 were listed as critical or in intensive care. 46 patients are at one of these locations. Ha
Mentioned,as i unless there is a very meaningful material development, in which case we will change nlans, tomorrow will be a email, paper release in terms of the overnight numbers and any other news we have to report, because of the white house vtc ii on monday we will do a press conference at 2 00 instead of the usual 1 00 timeframe here. So, i am honored to be joined today, as i am every day, by the woman to my right who needs no introduction. The commissioner of the department of health. Her right another name well , the statest epidemiologist. State fart, the left, the state police superintendent. And to my immediate left represent the department of workforce development, the commissioner. I mentioned as yesterday that i asked rob to give us an update on the department of labor efforts to ensure every new jersey and new jerseyan in need of on and limit insurance relief can file a claim and receive benefits. Folks are dealing with an unprecedented crush of people trying to reach th
Thanks for coming in earlier. We will be snappier in terms of our pace because we have folks who are going to be observing good friday beginning at noon. Im honored to be joined by the commissioner of the department of health. To her right, another guy who is becoming familiar. Director, thank you both for being here. To my farleft, state Police Superintendent colonel callahan. Themmediate left, department of directions commissioner. Corrections. Of we have the overnight numbers. Least the top line numbers and we will go from there. We will get into that immediately. Since yesterdays briefing, we have been notified that we have 3627 residents who have received positive test results. That puts our state right total at 54,588. At7 and our statewide total 54,588. According to our online dashboard, that is accessible nj. Gov. Covid19. As of 10 00 last night, we have 7570 residents reported weretalized of which 1679 listed in critical care. 1663 ventilators were in use your for the 24 hour.
Governor murphy good afternoon. We are gathering on what would have been my mothers 105th birthday. And by the way she ended her life for many years in assisted living in a nursing home. And had she been alive today those would be areas that we would be concerned about as i know you are. More on that a little bit. So god bless mom. Joining me up here, a woman to my right who needs to celli. Uction judy peci and christina tan. And colonel pat callahan. Also with us is the Homeland Security jared maples and other members of our team who would be able to answer some of your questions. Over the past 24 hour, so this is since the paper released that we put out yesterday, we have positive 00 347 new positive cases overnight. 3,347 new positive cases overnight. So the statewide positive cases now stands at 16,636. Sadly, i must also report that we have lost since yesterday another 37 New Jerseyans to covid19 related complications again over the past day. Yesterday in our paper release, we had