Wide range of covid19 topics but none more timely than getting our children back to school. Throughout the last two weeks i have spent countless hours talking with educational leaders around the state. Everyone agrees for the future of our children we must do everything we can to have them back in a learning environment again this fall. Working with States School superintendent woods, educational administrators and School Boards around the state we have guidelines for schools that i am very proud of because it took the assumption we would open schools what do it very safely and ensure that schools have the tools they need to protect students, staff, teachers as well as the community as a whole. We fully expect some cases of covid19 among students and teachers and we are doing what we can to provide the resources that need it to protect everyone in the setting. Working with fema, schools receive less in the coming days. To go back to school, we know schools need to be prepared to respon
Gov. Kemp good afternoon, everyone. Let me thank you guys for being here. I certainly want to thank the general who was with us today. Homer bryson. Last to my left. And behind the cameras. We appreciate all that they have been doing with these many press conferences we have had. Before i get started i want to thank the faith leaders across our state and the many georgians that which is a painted in our day of prayer. This went well and certainly appreciate that. In our fight debated against covid19 we let we must continue to pray for health care workforce, our front care frontline workers and Law Enforcement nfl the fellow georgians. Casestoday we had 23,773 2 fatalities and we continue to keep those folks as well as their families and communities in our thoughts and prayers. ,169ave given a total of 127 tests and through the leadership of the Public Health department, the National Guard, our gustaership with au university, walmart, walgreens and others are testing numbers are quickly
Been doing with these many press conferences we have had. Before i get started i want to thank the faith leaders across our state and the many georgians that which is a painted in our day of prayer. This went well and certainly appreciate that. In our fight debated against covid19 we let we must continue to pray for health care workforce, our front care frontline workers and Law Enforcement and our fellow georgians. As of today we had 23,773 cases with 942 fatalities and we continue to keep those folks as well as their families and communities in our thoughts and prayers. 2 fatalities and we continue to keep those folks as well as their families and communities in our thoughts and prayers. ,169ave given a total of 127 tests and through the leadership of the Public Health department, the National Guard, our gustaership with au university, walmart, walgreens and others are testing numbers are quickly increasing but we realize we have to continue to do more. As of this morning, georgia ra
New infections here. Heres the United States new sevenday average against the European Union and brazil with cases rising but not as near as fast as here in the United States. U. S. Hospitalizations now within whisper of that pandemic peak back in april. The experts know this. And for now those experts do not have invitations to join the president at todays daily briefing. Those Daily White House Coronavirus Briefings canceled because the president kept contradicting dr. Fauci and other experts. Then the president left the experts speechless suggesting if you ingest bleach or disinfectants that might help you fight off covid19. The president demands schools reopen and suggests the ones that do not should lose federal money. The Surgeon General says this issue simply not that simple. What i want people to know is the biggest determinant of whether or not to go back to school actually has little to nothing to do with the schools. Its a background transmission rate and it is why we have t
Trying to prepare for a safe return to school. Its all ahead this hour and we are live from cnn headquarters in atlanta. Welcome to our viewers, here, in the United States and all around the world. Im Natalie Allen and this is cnn newsroom. Thank you for joining us. It has been months since the coronavirus reached the United States. And instead of things calming down, several states are breaking records in numbers of cases and deaths. Overall, the country has recorded more than 4 million cases and rising. And more than 146,000 people have died. Florida is recording big, new numbers. It now has the secondmost infections in the country. It just passed new york, which was an early epicenter. Hospitals are getting overwhelmed, now. And positive test rates are rising. But as all that is happening, florida officials are thinking about when to reopen bars, of all things. The mayor of miami beach explains why that is the wrong foc focus, right now. Every day, in Miamidade County right now, abo