Governors. Track the spread throughout the u. S. And the world with interactive maps. Watch on demand any time unfiltered at cspan. Org slash coronavirus. Now California Governor Gavin Newsom talks about the states response to the coronavirus pandemic from yesterday. This is just under 50 minutes. Governor newsom what a remarkable week this has been not only for the state of california for one hundreds of people throughout the United States now. Estimated 80 million americans now living under some form of home isolation. Stay away orders, essential versus nonessential settings throughout the United States. This has been a very challenging time. Its time like this where we are filled with anxiety and filled with tremendous amount of uncertainty. And its understandable, people have a mindset of scarcity. You see that man fested in. So purchasing decisions people are manifested in some of the purchasing decisions people are making. A little more bread or toilet paper than they may need. A
Overall theres 860 in the bay area and 14 deaths. We want to update cases in lake and mendocino with one positive case and none in lake county. Both counties have dozens of tests waiting results of the tests. The bay area first mobile covid19 test site opened this morning in hayward. At first cars stretched for blocks, about a hundred when the process first began. And Laura Anthony is there live. Most people were turned away there today, right . Kelenna well,. Well, thats right, dan, this is unlike anything weve seen before,sa i nonstop operation. It will are just two cars there. Things have slowed considerably in the last hour or so. Health care workers in health gear and masks geting peopl tak right turn and go home. This is not a scene from a movie. Its Something Real and unsettling. People lining up in cars and on the sidewalks, some wearing masks, in one hayward neighborhood, hoping to get tested for covid19. Hes 14, hes had a fever since friday night about 104, its been 101 today
Now. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us. Im Garvin Thomas in for terry mcsweeney. From the federal level to the state level, new action tonight to protect americans from the coronavirus pandemic. It comes as the number of covid19 cases rise in the bay area. Within the past few hours, Alameda County has now added 26 new cases. New road closures are in place in marin county to deal with the people flooding the parks and beaches this weekend. And Governor Newsom announcing several new steps to help slow the virus spread. That includes a new executive order that allows the state to increase its health care capacity, in other words, find places to put patients. Plenty of venues are being called on to participate including santa clara a convention center. Nbc bay areas roz plater has the latest. Reporter as the number of covid19 cases rises, weve learned the Santa Clara Convention center is being prepped as a justincase scenario for a temporary hospital. A federal medical stat
This graph. It tracks the outbreak here in california and you can see in february. The numbers were low Health Experts say thats because there was not as much testing look how the numbers climb today there are more than 4800 confirmed cases and 98 related deaths in california and those numbers are expected to rise as a number of coronavirus cases grows across the bay area and the state continues to go up. We are hearing from medical experts about what will happen and what it needs to happen to flatten out the curve. Cases are expected to grow but just how far up will they go before they finally level out kron fours dan thorn has the story california saw its biggest jump in coronavirus cases friday as almost 800 new cases were reported. As the state climbs towards 4,000 casein total what will it take to turn the tide experts say following publi Health Guidelines and continue to stay separated. California remains one of the states hardest hit by the coronavirus 2 weeks ago the state had
But we are moving to what i would say is virtual recruiting. I have a broader question. Experts say you can anticipate the spread of the virus will will likelyate, and not exclude the military. I am wondering what worstcase scenario you see for the army in terms of how you will have to adjust. We are taking this day to day. A lot of this is looking at the trend data as to how great it will go. Things we learned from general generaln your riba abrams and another general is that you create safety bubbles and keep uniform formations intact and ultimately see if you can ride this out. Will this be a seasonal flu . Will it reverberate or boomerang in the fall . So we are keeping the formations intact and will adjust as we learn more. You dont have a specific worstcase you are planning for . Secretary mccarthy we are learning more every day and looking at options, but we need to collect more data. I would add to the secretary, what we found in italy and korea were very strong measures where