Ask white house officials or Administration Officials any questions at a formal briefing. As recently as yesterday, really up through today, it wasnt clear at all who was in charge of the u. S. Governments response to the coronavirus crisis. As recently as this afternoon the white house was specifically insisting that they were not going to put a socalled czar a coronavirus czar in charge of the effort the way, say, the Obama White House had done for the ebola crisis. White house was insisting as of this afternoon that Donald Trumps health and Human Services secretary, alex aczar, was doing such a great job leading the effort, thats how things would continue, no reason to bring anybody else in, we can handle this through regular order, everything is fine. That was the line from the white house as of this afternoon. It changed as of tonight when the president announced that Vice President mike pence will be the czar taking charge of the coronavirus response. The president saying tonight
Really hits the economy. A record 6. 6 million americans filed for benefits in the last week. The comedian eddie large, best known for the double act little and large, has died at the age of 78 has died at the age of 76. And saying thank you celebrities urge people across the country to show support for nhs and key workers with another round of applause tonight at eight oclock. Thank you so much, all of you nhs staff and key workers. When this is all over and done with, i am coming to kiss all of you on the lips. So pucker up. Good afternoon. Senior Health Officials say theyre frustrated by a lack of progress in expanding uk coronavirus testing. It comes as a further 569 people have died in the uk. The overrall total is now 2,921, with 33,718 confirmed cases. You can see here the upward trend of the last few weeks. 0n testing, the government is facing continuing criticism. So far, only 2,000 out of half a million front line nhs workers in england have been tested. Addenbrookes hospital
Theyre approaching those reopenings in different ways. Georgia has been the most impressive, as we know. Last friday they opened service industries, like bowling alleys and gyms. Then they allowed people to dine in at a restaurant and go to a Movie Theater. Lets see where this state is with the coronavirus. Youve got over 24,000 confirmed cases, and then we have 990 deaths, very likely will go over 1,000. It was on march 25th where he issued the Program Healthy at home. That was their shelter in place. That was over a week before the state of georgia implemented its program of shutting down. And right now if you take a look at what theyve got planned for reopening, as of monday, a gradual restart and reopening of the health care industry, not the retail industry. In other words, you can go visit your doctor, you can have minor procedures done, you can also go to the dentist, the chiropractor, and you can go to the optometrist. But its all focused medically there. Now you take a look at
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