What started just weeks ago half a world away is having a devastating impact across our country. No community has been spared. More than 855,000 cases have been confirmed. Nearly 48,000 lives lost as of the time we are meeting right now. And more than 22 million initial unemployment claims filed in the past month. Some regions of our country have lost as many jobs over the last month as they did during the worst year of the great recession. These statistics are not just numbers on a page, madam speaker. These are our neighbors. They are our family, they are our friends, their health is at risk and their economic reality has changed overnight. Since the start of this pandemic, congress has provided more than 2 trillion in emergency relief. To get Small Businesses the financial help they need to survive. To help hospitals and Health Care Workers on the frontlines. To expand testing. To provide every american access to an affordable vaccine when it is developed. I could go on and on and o
An Aircraft Carrier test positive for the covered 900. 00. Donald trump has declared that the number of new Coronavirus Infections in the u. S. Is slowing thats despite a Record Number of 2300 americans killed by the virus in just 24 hours and for the 2nd day trump has continued his attack on the World Health Organization suggesting it deliberately misled the world in the early stages of the outbreak causing many deaths on wednesday handouts to homes and funding to the w. H. O. Which is leading the Global Response to the pandemic tragically other nations put their trust in the w. H. O. And they didnt do it to form a band and you see what happened in italy you see what happened to spain you see what happened to france. W h os guidance had failed to control their borders at a very crucial phase quickly unleashing the contagion around the world that was a horrible tragic mistake or perhaps they do im sure they didnt know the gravity of it but perhaps they knew because if they knew the gra
Able to ease some of the restrictions to encourage everyone together and this. Is the problem. Also coming up its spreading and its dangerous im talking about fake news and faults information about the. Moment there was a belief that. Would be able to get rid of the virus people started to say that you should start thinking and drinking. And thats going to help you kill the virus so they prescribe the drug. Big effect and that was completely false information. Viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with a question if you observed it now how was your easter. Weekend but we now know what a major holiday looks like in the shutdown lockdown coronavirus world we live in at the moment there was silence from San Francisco to solve spur on sunday and an easy a natural low and now comes the clamoring calls for an end to travel and work restrictions this week some countries will begin leaving the walk down austria will become the 1st European U
Speaker pelosi good morning. Morning. Thank you for being here. Its a sad day. I know that many people, as am i, are quite shaken by the fact that we have passed the 50,000 number of people who have died from the coronavirus mark. Over 50,000. The numbers are staggering but each individual case is so heartbreaking. Yesterday on the floor we heard about a 5yearold girl whose mother a police officer, her father, a firpte. 5 years old, died of the coronavirus and then we heard max zones sister is dying. Senator warrens brother is dying. Thats people we know but people we dont know, theyre having the same kind of terrible grief in their family. Our prayers and thoughts are with those who have lost their loved one. Our prayers and thoughts are with those who have been diagnosed. Approaching 900,000 diagnosed and also, what 26 million having lost their jocks. Staggering numbers. Lots of personal and family grief. The conversation thats going on now is if we are to open government how and whe
The United States Public Health service as it exists today is a product of experience extending over a period of nearly 150 years. It was originally created as a Marine Hospital service for the purpose of providing medical care to american seamen. It was established by an act of congress signed by the second president of the United States, john adams, on july 16, 1798. This service was originally supported by a tax on american merchant seamen. This was later abolished. It was collected by the collector of the customs of the treasury department. And the Marine Hospital service came under the jurisdiction of that department where it remains today. The first Marine Hospital located at norfolk, virginia. The second was built in boston, massachusetts. Some of the medical personnel were used by the union and the confederacy for the care of the sick and wounded of the military forces. It frequently happened the medical officers of the early Marine Hospital were the first position to diagnose