Conversation. The phone lines are open. The death toll is now at 143,000 around the world. Total confirmed cases, 2. 1 one million. Over 675,000 cases in the death toll is over 34,000. We want to introduce you to dr. Peter li from the university of houston. He is an expert on east asian politics and wet markets, which is one of the reasons we invited you one. Thank you for joining us. We appreciate the photos you sent us. You have been to the socalled wet markets, believed to be the source. What are they . They are a small section likee regular marketplace, the Seafood Market. It is a 5 of the business space. Live where you can find chickens on live ducks and they slaughter them for you. It is where you get warm meat. Traditionally, these are everywhere but in the last 40 years, they have been going down. Arisen,w wet market has which is water wet market. In china in the 1980s i never saw these. It is new. , the Seafood Market has a huge marketplace where you can but one corner is call
Good morning. Today we are going to provide an update on covid19 testing, personal protective equipment, Hospital Capacity, and a rundown on the approach we have taken to supporting our nursing home community. Worked towe have dramatically scale up our testing capacity. Thats because we believe testing is crucial not only to our current efforts to understand the spread of this disease but because it will play a Critical Role over the longterm term as we work through decisions around reopening parts of our community. We are continuing to make progress. As of yesterday we conducted a , total of 126,551 tests. Testsncludes a new 4500 conducted yesterday which were conducted at 28 sites across the mouth across the commonwealth. This makes massachusetts one of the leading states in the country with respect to testing. We are grateful to our colleagues in the medical community. These laboratories are a big part of massachusetts progress on this front. That includes quest diagnostics, the bro
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Noem held a town hall taking questions on the states response to the coronavirus pandemic. The state is one of few without a stay at home order. 518 meatpacking plant workers tested positive for covid19. South dakota public broadcasting posted the town hall. Hello and welcome to a covid 19 special. South dakotas have a lot of questions about the coronavirus. They also have questions about the decisions being made in an effort to slow down the spread. Joining me to help answer some of those questions live, we have governor kristi noem, secretary with the south Dakota Department commissionerd the of the Governors Office of Economic Development. Welcome to all of you. Thank you. We are going to continue to take questions tonight. You can send those via text or email. Our phone number to send a text 67372. We are going to get started. We have been receiving questions for the last day and a half. All of those that we will be asking tonight have come from south dakotas except this first one.
Joining us from seattle, washington. Officerhief strategy for the Health Initiative and a professor of Global Health at the institute for Health Metrics and evaluation. Dr. Ali mokdad. Thank you for being with us. It is a pleasure. Host as you look at the trends tonight, what do they tell you . Dr. Mokdad we peaked on april 10 and they are coming down for the whole country but there are states that are still going up and others are going down. Host how do you do your study . What is the methodology . Dr. Mokdad we decided to model mortality on a daily basis and death rate and we used experience we have seen in wuhan, italy, and spain. We reversed the mortality how many beds we will need in the hospital and how many ventilators. We know in the United States for every death how many patients were admitted. Host at one point there was an expectation we could have 230,000 deaths and that number has come down, correct . Dr. Mokdad true. Our numbers have always been less than 100,000. First