Pres. Trump thank you very much, everyone. Thank you. Progress is being made. And i appreciate you all joining us. Last night the fda announc pres. Trump thank you very much, everyone. Thank you. Progress is being made. And i appreciate youre all joining us. Last night, the fda announced groundbreaking new policies to further increase testing, very substantially so. All states can now authorize tests developed and used within their borders, in addition to the fda. So the states are very much involved. They have been involved from the beginning, but we are stepping it up as much as we can. And the testing procedures are going well. And within a short period of time, private labs will kick in. This has never been done before. And it is going to be something, i think it is going to be incredible if it is done properly. And these are among the greatest companies in the world, actually. So, the state is going to be dealing through themselves and would local government, local physicians, loc
Taking some extra ordinary taps to change how we work but hopefully that the valuof it. For the time being, although interviews will be conducted remotely, and keeping a social does sing guidelines to help. Thank you for being with us. On thursday, gavin newsom ordered all lifornia resints to stay home as much as possible. All counties had already issued shelter in place directives to slow the spread of coronavirus. Nonessential businesses such as gyms and bars have lows, as restaurants offer only out and delivery service. Groceries doors, pharmacies and gas statio are some ofthe businesses allowed to stay open. In the bay area, santa clara has in the county hardest hit by the coronavirus with at least 196 confirmed cases and eight deaths. Thank you so much for taking a few moments today. Of course cedar county has been particularly hard hit, and you were among the first counties to make this extraordinary decisi to tell residents to essentially shelter in place. Can you talk about the
It has been several year, march of 2016, since our last hearing on the budget of the nations leading Public Health agency. Before i do a formal welcome and so forth, i want to i was made aware of this issue which is really very, very troubling and that is that the administration has ordered the Immigration Court to immediately remove coronavirus posters and it just says that the Immigration Court staff nationwide have been ordered by the administration to take down coronavirus posters from courtrooms and waiting areas. The executive office for immigration review which falls under the department of justice told all judges and Staff Members in an email monday that all of the coronavirus posters which explain in english and spanish thousand prevent catching and spreading the virus had to be removed immediately. I just want to say that whatever ones view is on any issue that we face in this nation, whatever your personal views are, whatever your ideology is, that we cannot, we cannot in th
I want to let you know where we stand in regards to the state response to the coronavirus. I am very proud that the state response is being led by the Texas State Health services commissioner, dr. John. He and his team worked closely with the Texas Division of Emergency Management to coordinate the response to covid19. Going back, from the very beginning, i began working on first this in midjanuary. I talked to Vice President pence, and the day after that, i talked to President Trump about the very first person who contracted covid19 in the u. S. A couple days later, january 24, the department of state Health Services began leading daily calls with Public Health authorities, health care providers, city and county officials and School Districts across the state of texas. The next week on january 31, the department of state Health Services activated the state medical operations center. That was followed by the dh the dsh s opening 10 Public Health labs to perform covid19 testing througho
Im hopeful and sure that hes going to be fine hes strong man strong person today every patriotic american heart beats in solidarity with the incredible people of new york and new jersey theyve really become a very hot zone but some very good things are happening in new york the 1st time where the deaths were less from the previous day thats a 1st drop so far so maybe thats a good sign it could be in the hospital levels of story to. Perhaps decrease its been very short but perhaps decreased so we wish Governor Cuomo and. All of the people in new york great and new jersey governors doing a great too soon a great job in new jersey they got hit very hard. I just want to say that the full power of the American Government and American Enterprise is it really is this is an all out military operation that weve waged and especially over the last number of weeks 50 states and territories have now been approved for major disaster declarations which is very unusual thanks to the army corps of engi