Surgeon general is issuing this stark warning when it comes to the pandemic. Everyone needs to act as if they have the virus right now. Test or no test, we need you to understand you could be spreading it or getting it from someone else. Stay at home. General powell spoke sternly with the today show saying the public is not taking it seriously and again, if you are not infected Everyone Needs to act like they have coronavirus to stop its spread. New at 111, students return to belongings left behind in classroo classrooms, picking up books and computers as Online Learning should start as soon as tomorrow for students. One dad says its hard for the graduating class. So no graduation. How do they feel about that . They dont like that. They miss their friends, they know its the last year together. A lot of emotion as well. Most parents are saying they are hopefully getting classes it start as soon as possible and kids will be ready because theyre restless at home. In bay area more than 790
Hoe held a press conference. He announced he was imposing a mandatory, statewide requirement that no business could have more than 25 of their work force report to work outside their home. Up from 50 a day ago. From albany, this is 45 minutes. Gov. Cuomo good morning, everyone. Let me introduce everyone with us. To my far right, our health commissioner, dr. Sucker. O my right, a special guest. To my left let me make a couple of points if i can today. Again, the context perspective is probably whats most important. Coronavirus is a governmental, critical governmental situation, its a Public Health crisis. Government has to respond to it and thats what the coverage is all about. It is a war in many ways and government has to mobilize as if it is a war. The federal government is now engaged in a way they havent been. I think that is very good news. Ive worked in the federal government with cabinet secretaries, i know what the state can do, i know what the federal government can do. States
Blog to see if you have toibodies that were created fight the coronavirus. Remember, all the Health Officials say the coronavirus was here before we started the test, many more people have had the coronavirus then we, most people have resolved the coronavirus. Have you know that . You can test and find the antibodies that the body created to fight the virus. Antibody, ithat means you had the virus and you resolved it. Why do you want to know that . Because i want to know who had it, who has the antibody which means they most probably will not get it again and that can help us get our medical staff back to work faster. So, it is a different level of testing, but i think the fda should move as expeditiously as they have before on this type of testing. Find out who had it, who has the antibodies, and that will help us, especially on medical staff shortages. The state role, what am i supposed to do . Im not just looking to the federal government. Arederstand that we responsible here in the
Said the government including nationalize medical supply acquisitions and temporary hospitals should be billed to the army corps of engineers and fema. Hospitals to be built by the army corps of engineers and fema. Trying to determine the trajectory. As of now, the numbers are continuing to increase. To keep theng hard rate of increase of the spread of the disease to a level we can manage it in our hospital system. We have 53,000 hospital beds available. Right now, the curve suggests we could need 110,000 hospital beds and that is an obvious problem. That is what we are dealing with. You have the nations role in the situation and you have the states role. This is what they call an Emergency Management situation. Emergencyrules for management. State governments, local governments manage an emergency unless the emergency overwhelms the capacity of the government. The higher level of government takes over. That happens even on the state level. A city will be in charge. A county will be in
California has 33 cases of the virus, and thousands more are being monitored. We have live, team coverage. Thomas in sacramento with more on what the governor says is being done. Is a christian is in San Francisco where there are serious concerns of the effect on the tourism industry. We begin with rob roth in Solano County tonight. You just got an update from the Health Department there. Reporter thats right, in the press briefing is still going on. What we can say, the Solano County has been declared a local, Public Health emergency. The concern is over how a Solano County woman contracted the coronavirus. We have identified family members of this individual. They are in isolation, pending testing. They will remain in quarantine for 14 days, since the last exposure to the patient. The patients workplace has been fully addressed as well. We are identifying any potential interactions with people that are not employees in the workplace during the time that the person was infectious. Rep