Pres. Trump thank you very much, everyone. Begin, i would like to offer my condolences and best wishes to the people all across our great south, who have endured deadly tornadoes and other severe weather. Mississippi,ana, alabama, florida, georgia, tennessee, and south carolina. My administration will do Everything Possible to help those communities to get back on their feet. We are speaking with governors. Fema is already on its way. They got there as soon as we heard. I said, get out there. You know the great job that fema does. It is really something, very special. We just want to say, warmest condolences and we are with you all the way. It is a tough deal. That was a bad level five. That is as bad as it gets. That is a bad grouping of tornadoes. The power, the horrible, destructive power. Americans continue to make critical progress in our war against the virus. Over the weekend, the number of daily new infections remain flat nationwide. Slowing intions are new york, new jersey, mi
Only 18 days since everything closed down. 39 days since the first covid case in new york. It feels like a lifetime. Firsts since we have the covid case in the united states. 80 days. Lifechanginge, 80 days, but thats what it has been. When we started this situation that we are still in the midst of, before people get march,ent, the end of the White House Task force was still talking about 1. 5 million to 2. 2 million deaths, ok . Their best Case Scenario with mitigation efforts was 140,000 to 240,000 deaths in the united states, which is breathtaking. For new york, there were a number of models that were put up that we are following. Wasmost frightening Columbia University that said we could have 136,000 people in new york city only who would be hospitalized, not infected. Which the mckinsey model suggested 110,000 people could be hospitalized statewide. We had a second scenario from mckinsey which is 55,000 people hospitalized. Foundation,tes thank you very much, funded a study which
Morning. Happy passover. Easter is tomorrow, the big day. Lets go through where we are right now. The good news is the curve of the increase is continuing to flatten. The number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex and the apex appears to be a plateau. Which is what many of the models predicted. It was not going to be straight up and straight down it was , going to be straight up to the top number and then you plateau and that looks like what we are doing. The hospitalization rate is down. That is important. We have more people getting infected still. More people going to the hospitals, but we have a lower number. That is all this is saying. Fewer people are going to the hospitals. Still net positive. The three day average, which is what we look at because daytoday can be deceiving, especially towards the weekend because the reporting gets a little different. But all the numbers are on the downward slope. Still, people getting infected, people going to the hospital but a low
And holy saturday. Easter is tomorrow. Big day. Lets go through where we are right now. The good news is the curve of the increase is continuing to flatten. The number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex and the apex appears to be a plateau. Which is what many of the models predicted. It was going to be straight up to the top number and then you plateau and that looks like what we are doing. The hospitalization rate is down. Thats important more people getting infected still. More people going to the hospitals, but we have a lower number. Fewer people are going to the hospitals still net positive. The 300 average, which is what we look at because daytoday can be deceiving, especially towards the weekend because we can reporting gets a little different. All the numbers are on the downward slope. Still, people getting infected, people going to the hospital but a lower rate of increase. The number of icu admissions is down. The three day average is down. This is a little decep
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