Those who have lost their loved ones. So very, very sad, and so many who are diagnosed and have that uncertainty. The key to our opening up our country and economy is really science, evidence, data, which can only be obtained by testing, testing, testing. Again,o forward here, listening to scientists, listening to Public Health officials and the rest from around the country as well as to the intelligence from the areas that our colleagues bring, we cares two. Ed for it will honor our heroes, those who have on a daytoday basis our health care providers, first responders, police, fire, Emergency Service people, transit, food providers, teachers, teachers, teachers we honor them, and that takes the form of state and local funding. , we kind ofs bill. Ollowed the cares model we have to do very much more than that and democrats and republicans across the country governors, mayors, county officials, etc. Have been calling out for this funding. If we are going from just doing state and local
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
And jobs from the Virus Outbreak donald trump also pledges to bail out the u. S. Oil industry after prices they put into negative territory for the 1st time in history and serious questions are being asked about the true number of coronavirus related deaths in england and wales. The current a virus pandemic could lead to famines in dozens of countries pushing tens of millions more people around the world to the brink of starvation a un report has highlighted the vast number of people around the world who are now acutely food in secure the World Food Program has requested 350000000. 00 to set up a network to keep humanitarian supply chains moving around the world. No samples yet but i must warn you that if we dont prepare and act now to secure access avoid fundies shortfalls disruptions to treat we could be facing multiple famines of biblical proportions within a short few months the actions that we take will determine our success or failure and build a Sustainable Food systems as the b
Worlds poorest cope with basic access to food and water during the pandemic. And nations across latin america fear the crash of world prices could push the region into its worst ever recession. After weeks of negotiation politicians in the us have joined ranks to try and protect the Worlds Largest economy from the turmoil caused by the corona virus pandemic in the last few hours the senate has passed a nearly 5 100000000000. 00 relief package to help struggling Small Businesses but also provide more funds for hospitals and for testing the bill is now going to the house for a vote. This gives us another 310000000000. 00 for the p. P. P. We look forward to the house passing this tomorrow in being up and running quickly after that this also gives us 50000000000. 00 for disaster loans idle loans that will allow the s. B. A. To make 300000000000. 00 of disaster loans all 1st Small Businesses. Also allows us as the president said more money to hospitals and unprecedented amounts of money for
Gov. Desantis good morning. I want to thank the Cleveland Clinic and the dr. For hosting us. We have been working with the Cleveland Clinic throughout this and we really appreciate the advice, the council and the insight of what is going on on the ground. I have been able to talk with the doctors throughout this and i think they are doing a really good job. I want to give them a chance in a minute to talk about some of the things they are doing. If you look at how patients who come through here have faired compared to other places, they have a good record in terms of patients being discharged and patients recovering at higher rates than we see elsewhere. I think that is because they are doing so much good stuff. An update on our situation here in florida. 320,000ave tested people in the state of florida. There was not very much testing going on anywhere in the country to month ago. We have been able to ramp up a lot. Cleveland clinic is doing a great job. We, with the state and Nationa