Us. Thank you for joining us. Doctor, tell us why your Group Tell Us believe that the lockdown approach is completely utterly wrong . Well, i think theres some parts of it that makes sense. There are we have to some people are vul 234esh8 and we have to protect them. Scientific fact is that there are a wide range of responses to covid19 infection and some groups are vulnerable to mortality where others are less vulnerable. A risk that a child faces, something on the order of one in a hundred,000 of mortality to someone over 70, which may be as high as four or five in a hundred mortality, so the idea of the policy is it should take that into account. That the other idea thats really important and this is something that gets really little play. The harms from these lockdowns are absolutely devastating. Not just in economics but also in health. For instance, youre in a lockdown. Weve seen people who skipped cancer treatments, who skipped diabetes management treatments that they skipped th
Afternoon. I want to thank you for hosting us. Thank Governor Desantis good afternoon. I want to thank you for hosting us. Thank you to the mayor for all of the hard work he has done over many months working closely with us here in the state government. We came to jackson in i think wa. At that point, i dont even know if miamidade had a case, a positive test. It was obviously much different than what we are finding here. You are doing nothing you us an explanation. You are deceiving the public. Over 4000 people have died and you have no plan. You are doing nothing. Shame on you. Shame on both of you. Desantis at that time, when we were here, we had a whole bunch of concerns about what would end up happening in weeks in the next few and months. Shame on you. Desantis we had concerns about testing, we were able to get test, we were not able to get test for all the people who needed them at the time. In fact, there were probably hundreds of tests being conducted statewide. Nationally, tho
President. County terry, administer. South, the doctor here at the Medical Center. We will have interesting talks. Thank you for being here. We will go over some things we are doing in terms of covid response. Our mission focuses on protecting vulnerable, expanding testing. We are doing that. Yesterday, 95,000 tests. Today, over 80,000 tests. Taiwan has done 78,000 tests the entire pandemic, 23 million people. We are doing a lot of testing. Practicing social distancing. Supporting hospital and health care workers. Today,updates on things hospitals throughout florida will be getting additional shipments of therapeutic remdesivir, something a lot of physicians have been using. We got positive responses. Developed andtic given in emergency use authorization by fda. We are scheduled to get more later in the month. There was a need to expedite that. President ith the vice and secretary a czar to get that expedited secretary azar to get that expedited. Today and be obtained hopefully we will
Public service and brought to Cable Television provider. Announcer 2 Florida Governor ron desantis held a briefing on the States Coronavirus pandemic. Joined by representatives from the community and state and local officials, the governor discussed testing in the state, the need for testing and adhering to medical protocols like Wearing Masks and social distancing. Gov. Desantis well good , afternoon. I want to thank everyone for being here. Blake Medical Center randy , curran, ceo of the Medical Center, and also my friend, bill, for being here. We also have representative will robinson, dr. Shari, Florida Division president. I want to thank him for being here. We have sherry, the Manatee County administer, and we have dr. Scott south, the doctor here at blake Medical Center. I think we will offer some interesting talks as well. From the beginning we wanted to do that. We are expanding testing. We are doing that. Yesterday, 95,000 tests. Today, over 80,000 tests. Put that in perspecti
We now leave this program to get you alive briefing of 40 governor ron desantis. Good afternoon i want to think Carlos Mcguire for hosting us in jackson and thank you to mayor carlos and manus to all the work he has done over many months working closely with us in the state government. We came to jackson and i think early march when this pandemic was really starting to pick up steam, at that point i dont know if miamidade had a case, positive, maybe a couple but it was obviously much different than what were finding here. [shouting] over 4000 people have died, you have no plans and youre doing nothing. Shame on you. At that time when we had when we were here we had a whole bunch of concerns about what would end up happening in the next few weeks and months craig we had concerns about testing, we were able to get test, we were not able to get test for all the people who needed them at the time, in fact there were probably hundreds of tests being conducted today statewide and nationally