Are in the eastern or central. Ime zones, 202 7488000 if youre in the mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. Send us a text. 202 7488003 is that number. A very good wednesday morning. You can start calling you now as we show you part of President Trumps speech yesterday in phoenix, arizona, highlighting his administrations response to the coronavirus pandemic. [video clip] we do all of these tests and we find pockets and we find people we find cases and they say that cases have jumped instead of saying what a job we are doing with testing. We did the job with testing and we did ventilators and we came up with tests. We have 70 different types of tests. It is a lot of tests. Other countries that have done very well with testing, they call us, and they say nobody has been able to do the job you have done. The l. A. Ones who cannot say that are the Fake News Media people the only ones who cannot say that are the Fake News Media people. [booing] someday it will be recognized by histo
Host glad to welcome back dr. Nyu, a host on siriusxms dr. Radio. Hes helping People Better understand coronavirus. You are on this program back in late march. How far have we come in understanding this disease since then . What has been the biggest breakthrough . Guest we have kind understand a lot more than we did before. One of the most important things is there has not been a breakthrough. We have learned a lot more about managing this disease. , we can help you get through it as well as understanding the disease, what is happening. We are having some success at medications. Although you hear its a great medicine, thats good, but these are not cure alls good we not the death rate back by one third. We are cutting hospital admissions but not decreasing the deaths. Levelre not to the same we would like them to be. It is a slow process. Host do we know why some people get the disease and are fine and some people end up dying . Hear we areo not coming to some conclusions. Older, people
Words if you have it in ways to try to help you get through it as well asto understanding the process of this disease and what is happening there and its a very, very [inaudible]. We are having some success at medications and although you hear this is a great medicine its good but these are not curealls and these are we knocked at the death rate back by a third cases where there are separate to begin with. We are cutting the numbers of hospital admissions but not increasing the death rates. They are successes but not to the same level that we would like them to be. Sa host do we have a better understanding of why some people get this disease in a perfectly fine and other people get it and end up dying . Guest we do not. Although we are epidemiological he coming to some conclusions, people who are heavier, people who are older, underlying heart disease, people with high blood pressure, Kidney Disease whatever we know those people are more likely to have severe symptoms. We do not know s
Highlight a new tool to help assess symptoms, and find a place to get tested. Lets look at a couple of slides about our testing data. Yesterday, we got results of 1438new pcr tests, and serology tests. As you can see from this slide, the present positivity from testing continues to trend downward. Statewide it is at about 15 . On this slide you will see the number of tests continues to trend upward. Both of these are good things. We know there are simple steps that all of us can take and should to help stop the spread of this virus. Work, and we know these guidelines will be part of our new normal as we continue to move forward. You have heard me say this hands, please wash your stay six feet away from other people, and where a Face Covering in public. Wear a Face Covering in public. When people wear masks, it goes a long ways to reduce the spread of the disease. Wearing a mask could literally save someone elses life. That is becoming clearer every day as we move further into managing
Yesterday. The has not shown up on website yet but it will in the next day or two. I want to give an update on where we are with our data metrics. Friday these slides on and they are also available on the department of health website. This is our confirmed positive cases. The blue bar represents the seven day moving average. We have seen these numbers going up. That is what we would expect to see. Manycraft shows us how people are being tested each day in the blue bars. Ae yellow line represents sevenday average. These have been trending upward. This slide shows how many hospitals are reporting hortages of p. P. E. This is trending downward, this is good news. Its several days since any hospitals reported shortages of p. P. E. And right now even the trend is at zero. Our adequate supply of p. P. E. And swabs are two of the factors allowing us to test more. Might also mention that we have a warehouse here in virginia of p. P. E. And our supply, our stock on hand, is doing well and looki