You support the handling. The number if you oppose is 202 7488001. End us a text 202 7488003 nwj. Witter we are cspa we welcome your posts on facebook. For some perspective on the Coronavirus Task force established by the white house on january the 29th. The health and Human Services secretary originally leading that group and mice president Vice President pence was put in charge of the efforts at the end of february. They are reporting on the proposed ending of the task force. The wall street journal online saying that the white house is discussing phasing out Coronavirus Task force. Ack to that visit to phoenix the front page of the Washington Times with a photo of the president at the plant along with his chief of staff. Trump promises to build yearg he opened up a new vowing to rebuild and economy devastated by the coronavirus in the six months left before he faces voters judgment. On the work of the task force, here is what the president said. We cant keep our country closed for t
Washingtons effort to address job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic. Is next. N journal one month ago today, President Trump declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic. With wyoming over the weekend, all 50 states have been declared Disaster Response areas. Good morning, its monday, april 13, 2020. This first hour we will ask about your thoughts on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic so far and how your state governor is handling the crisis. We will look at joe bidens just published plan to reopen america. Heres how to be a part of the discussion this morning. In the eastern and central time zones, but linus 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific, that line is 202 7488001. We welcome medical professionals, to hear from you. That live is 202 7488002 that line is. Is 202 7488002 you can text us at 202 7488003. We have facebook posts ready, we will show you those. As we begin the program yesterday, the New York Times had published a lengthy story on the lead up
On her own. Reporter like many other Family Members, barbara said she found out about the outbreak on the news. Six seniors have died from the virus. 29 others have tested positive. 24 Staff Members also infected. Right now shes comfortable. Shes good. Shes not showing symptoms. Reporter jaime patino, a councilmember, has a grandmother who lives here. He checked on her through the windo they have enough people working today, they tell u these nursing assistants tell me a Staffing Agency sent them here toda yesterday, two nursing a ides said they were urged to come back to work even though theyve tested positive. Theyre currently working to develop a new policy that would allow asymptomatic workers to work with positive residents. Contra costa county already has a similar policy in place. If in extreme cases, if staffing is extremely limited and every possible option has been exhausted, then the employer can make a request of Public Health. Reporter the county says it sent a taskforce t
It is so extensive that they cannot afford to have extra beds hanging around, waiting for something to happen. This is part of the idea between the National Strategic stockpile that the federal government would stockpile supplies and medications. As we have heard recently, ventilators. Is, in placeseing that are very hardhit, people with a lot of complications, hospitals are completely overwhelmed. At the same time, we are seeing the rest of the Health System come to a grinding halt. Hospitals have stopped doing elective surgeries with things like hip replacements. Things that they make most of their money from. People are afraid to go to the doctor unless they have covid19. We are seeing primary care practices and specialty practices and things that are not respiratory basically start to lay people off. Host looking at the Health Insurance, is this overwhelming the Health Insurance part . Keeping in mind, as i understand it, didnt tested or having covid19 related expenses will be cove
And delivering pharmaceuticals. The implications of one country are astounding, no matter what country we may be talking about. Think about it. What if theres a Global Pandemic and its hard to move product across the world because of that . What if there are heightened tensions within the South China Sea . Everyone could be vulnerable, everyone could be put at risk. The role of the fda in the situation cannot be overstated because the fda cannot be as effective in assuring the safety of our medicines in farflung areas of the world as it can at home. Many of us are not aware of the facetoface contact that the fda has with those who are manufacturing our drugs. The inspections that they could duck, the very hands on work that is involved in making sure that the manufacturers of drugs is safe. They certainly set up offices all over the world to do that, but thats not the same as having offices having manufactured in your own country. And with the u. S. Losing manufacturing capacity, which