Side want to play political games senators clashed as they failed to reach an agreement on a nearly trillion coronavirus response. Bill what we have a basic philosophical conflict, democrats blocked a republican proposal oregon senator jeff merkley calls it a slush fund for big corporations like the Airline Industry so theyve invested 50 billion in profits during the good times and buying their own stock. And giving huge bonuses to to their their management. At that time they want to see what the public bail us now republican senators say bipartisan negotiations were going well until House Speaker nancy pelosi showed up back in washington and got involved and angry senator john thune of south dakota said the bill included many provisions democrats want like direct checks for americans increased Unemployment Insurance and money for Small Businesses to pay their employees that right there is billion. Going to workers. Soon says there is 500 billion worth of money for big corporations but
Patients. I give you all Celebrities Making music online. Since were all talking about staying home. Music has the power to heal. Announcer tonight its all hands on deck. Were going stay in this until we can defeat it. Announcer America Rising fighting the pandemic. Heres david muir. Thank you for joining us for this live America Rising fighting the pandemic. Tonight hear the story of the heroes on the front likes the. Doctors, the nurses, the Health Care Workers, the paramedics, the police, the Grocery Store workers. So Many Americans answering the call as the coronavirus explodes across america, and nowhere is it more evident than here in new york, the epicenter of the u. S. Outbreak. The country has more than 160,000 cases coast to coast and this number just in tonight, more than 3,000 dead. 253 deaths reported in 24 hours. President trump late today warning, challenging times are ahead for the next 30 days. Doctors and scientists on his team saying we could see up to 200,000 americ
Thank you all again for coming back today and for tuning in, and i do know that these daily briefings can get tedious, and the information, much of it, sounds the same, so people may start to tune it out, but i can tell you the situation is changing, it is evolving, and the information we are putting out is important. Just because the social distancing and hygiene guidance and the stay at home order stays in place after day doesnt mean we shouldnt talk about those things because that will be the key to success in trying to get through this Public Health emergency with the fewest amount of cases and certainly the lowest death toll. I want to think the doctor for being with us today. He has been a practicing physician in new orleans for decades although he does not look that old. Officere chief medical officer. Working with the state office of Public Health and it is great to have you here today. He will take some questions. He will have some prepared comments and take questions after i
Trying to get through this Public Health emergency with the fewest amount of cases and the lowest death total. Corey he thank dr. Bert. He has been a practicing physician for decades, although he does not look that old. He is the chief chief medical officer for dillard university. He is also working with the state of Public Health. And it is great to have him here today. He will take questions and have some prepared comments after i am finished. The doctory have from the apart department of health to take questions related to testing and Public Session other things. Dr. Hebert is here because we mentioned some disturbing statistics coming out of our analysis of the information we are getting, and that is while about 33 of the states population is africanamerican, over 70 of the deaths because of covid19 or among africanamericans. That is concerning to me and to others, and it is unacceptable. We want to better understand why that is and what we can contributed to do, and how we get rid
That we have, approved drugs that might be repurposed to try and attack this virus . A lot of them are being tried. I dont think all of them are going to work but it is worth trying. In that vein we have something that blocks the inflammation. It is a drug we have been working night and day and weekend. I have been in contact with people from the white house. Me wantingve called to know what should be in the bill to help people be ready to deploy this cocktail. Are in the epicenter right here in westchester county. It is terrible. I have a friend who was very sick for a long time. I have a friend right now who has been on a ventilator for several weeks. It is terribly distressing. The leadership Governor Cuomo has shown has been amazing. Everybody has been pulling together. There has been issues of is someone doing enough. But we are in unprecedented times. With to make sure we dont bicker and point fingers now. We have to get the job done. Everyone has to be going the same direction.