113th president of the National Press club. Im the former general manager of cbs radio network. Of thecutive producer public broadcasting series the report with legendary journalist marvin kalb. Im joining you from the Operations Center here in washington, d. C. Harris,t is dr. Patrice. He joins us virtually she is the first africanamerican woman to hold the position and brings to the role several decades as a physician in private practice. Took office in june of 2019, dr. Harris planned to pledge her work to the front line of the opioid crisis. Toay, dr. Harris is here talk with us about an entirely different Public Health crisis, why in this era of conspiracy theories and fake news she believes we must return to a reliance on scientific facts, data, and trusted sources. Dr. Patrice harris, welcome to the National Press club. Our virtual podium is yours. Thank you, greetings, i am dr. Patrice harris, president of the American Medical Association. The coronavirus pandemic presents a ch
Welcome to this virtual stage our honored guest, Federal Reserve chair, jay powell. At this moment of unprecedented challenge, not only to our Public Health system and our health in general, there is an enormous challenge to our economy and chair powell and his colleagues moved forcefully and quickly in responding to this crisis. Solutions,creative keeping credit flowing to houses and businesses and prepare the economy so they can recover when this virus so it can recover when this virus recedes. And it surely will, ladies and gentlemen. Your work, sir, and that of your colleagues, is far from over, but we are in good hands under your leadership. Indeed, leaders are tested in times of crisis and this crisis tests our leadership in no uncertain terms. You have risen to the occasion. It is safe to say we and all americans have appreciated your calm, decisive leadership in this moment of peril and on behalf of of all of us at brookings, please let me commend you on the powerful example of
Appears to have hit and even had apex and the apex appears to be a plateau which is what many models predict it. That it would not be straight up or 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 some port. We have 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 threeday average, which is what we look at because daytoday can be deceiving, especially towards the weekend because we can reporting gets a little different. But all the numbers are on the downward slope. Infected. Ple getting people are still 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 deceptive because at one time hospitals had discrete icu wards or icu beds. Effectively now in a hospital, all of the beds
From stayathome orders . Here is how you join the conversation. In eastern and central time zones, the line is 202 7488000. In the mountain and pacific time zones, 202 7488001. And we welcome those of you who are religious leaders. Regardless of your denomination of faith, we would like to hear from you and how you have altered your gatherings and practices during the crisis. 202 7488002 is the line. If you want to text us, tell us where you are texting from, your name, 202 7488003. E are on twitter, cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan is how you post your thoughts. One of the states was kansas where the decision came down late yesterday from the Supreme Court. This is that reporting from the public Radio Station Kansas Supreme Court sides with governor preserving ban on large Church Services. Shegovernor wrote that holds powers to shut down large gatherings in the face of a Public Health crisis. The High Court Said public leaders lack the powers to reverse the limits on charging funeral s
Did the ecommerce giants 800 Million Investment into one day delivery pay off in the latest Earnings Report . Details, ahead. And twitter misses thirdquarter revenue estimates. We find out why new user growth did not translate into ad sales. Facebook dominated the week in tech with Ceo Mark Zuckerberg defending his social network before u. S. Congress on wednesday. What was scheduled as a hearing on the Cryptocurrency Libra also included issues like antitrust and privacy. Is it a currency . Are you a bank . What is this association . It is a very complex project. And as you say, it is risky. Do you consider libra to be money . I consider libra to be a Payment System. So its like me having my money in wells fargo bank. You could think about it that way. Although, the we are not a bank, we are not applying for a bank charter. But that is the problem. That is the problem. Thats what were facing here. We are not going to launch the libra Payment System here or anywhere else around the worl