No, lets just start with the facts, maam, thats what we do. Joe friday, get to know him. Hospitalization rate, take it down. Good news. Net change, down. Thats good news. Intubation is down, thats good news. Covid hospitalizations, new ones, flat, up to a tick, not good news. What we are watching right now is how fast it climbs and how low it goes. We would like to see it in the low hundreds, ideally, of new cases every day. Death rate, terrible news. 330. You see the decline has been slow at best. And still disgustingly high. So, we are making progress for sure, but we are not out of the woods yet and we are proceeding with caution. There are signs of caution out there that we should Pay Attention to. Singapore is talking about a second wave, with 900 new cases. This is after they controlled the beast. They were on the decline. They are now looking at new cases. Germany is a situation we should also watch and learn from. They relaxed and started to reopen and they are now seeing an in
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You and your family. We would love to hear from you. Our phone lines are open. For the eastern half of the country. 202 7488001 for the mountain and city time zones. 202 7488002 if you are a medical professional. We begin with the numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Around the world, 3. 1 million confirmed cases. The death toll in 185 countries is 216, almost 217,000. In the United States, the death toll has surpassed 58,000. Joining us from princeton, new jersey is the president and ceo of the Robert Wood Johnson foundation. He served as the former acting director of the cbc. Today, named on the restart and recovery commission. Thank you for being with us. Guest nice to be here. Host your region has the highest percentage of covid cases in the country. How do you balance the Public Health with the desire to reopen the economy . Everyone wants to get the economy back up and running. People are suffering. People are out of work. People lead income. You want to make sure that a
He is not a doctor either. Who else . Worked with me in the state for many years and has been a great talent here. It is a pleasure to be here today. We are at syracuse state university, the upstate medical school and hospital. Had a chance to say hello to the nurses and doctors who work ere. I wanted to say thank you for for all they have done here. He also sent a team down to new york city. So it has just been an extraordinary experience but we have seen the good, the bad and the ugly in all of this. The good is beautiful. Let me talk about some of the facts we are dealing with today. Facts are our friends, right. People want to know the facts without spin or opinion. That is what we have been giving them. Total hospitalization rate is down a tick, which is good news. The change in hospitalization is own. The number of independent bations is also down. The number of covid hospitalizations per day these are new people who are newly diagnosed with covid. It is under 1000, which is good
Beaches. Well, good morning, everyone. As you can see, i have got a great team assembled with me here today, and i am certainly grateful for each one of them. For their service and participation in this process. First he we couldnt even be here talking about this order that expires if it had not been for the people of alabama abiding by the regulations and guidelines, for their sacrifices, their patience and their understanding during the last six weeks. What our citizens have done is work it, and i appreciate that so many people have been willing to do the right things to keep themselves healthy as well as to protect others to be well and healthy, too. This has not been an easy not in the we are Perfect World that we want to be. However, the people of alabama are to go the hard things to ensure that we can get back to our routines just as soon as possible. And today we are taking another step in that direction. Before i announce the changes that we are making, i would like to first ac