Democrats would block it. Heres a look at her comments now. We will show you as much as we can before todays White House Briefing. Pelosi thank you all if you are out here. Good day wherever you are in this holy week, passover. Approaching Easter Sunday and ramadan. The appropriate time for us to more deeply pray for those who have lost their lives and the families that are suffering and those who are sick with the virus. Its a very, very sad time as we awaken this morning to see that the totals are approaching 450,000 people infected. Approaching nearly 15,000 people who have lost their lives. That is the sad, sad part of it all. More than 17 million initial unemployment claims. Hundreds of thousands of jobs lost in the month of march. Now millions more expected in the coming months. The assault on the lives and the livelihood of the American People is one of epic proportion and one that demands congress continue to take bold, urgent, effective action to bring rapid relief to the heal
Testing and what governors do offering guidelines. Pres. Trump thank you very much. I would like to begin by saying that we are continuing to negotiate with the democrats to get our great workers and Small Businesses all over the country taking care of. Tohink we are getting close a deal. Could happen, could happen. A lot of good work has been going on. We could have an answer tomorrow. We are going to see what exactly does take place. We are also looking at helping our hospitals and our rural hospitals who have been hurt very badly. The rural hospitals, for a long time, havent been treated properly. We are looking to help them and beyond. We are looking at hospitals as part of the package. We will see how that all comes out. But a lot of good things are happening, very good negotiations. I just got off the phone with the secretary of the treasury, and we have very good negotiations going on right now. I think you could have a nice answer tomorrow, but we will see. America continues to
Gov. Cuomo good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here today. I want to thank our hosts very much, northwell. Michael dowling to my left is head of northwell. They have done an extraordinary job all through this situation. They have an extraordinary leader in michael dowling. Michael dowling ran health care for the state of new york, social services for the state of new york. He worked with my father, came for one year, wound up staying with my father for 12 years in state service. So, he is one of the really beautiful and brilliant leaders in this state and it is a pleasure to be with him. And i want to say to all the people of northwell who have done extraordinary jobs, thank you so, so much and thank you for having us today. To my right is melissa derosa, she is the secretary to the governor. To her right is what is your name again . Mariah kennedy cuomo, who is part of my team, and it is a pleasure to have her with me today. I will be mentioning more about that in a second.
Thank you all again for coming back today and for tuning in, and i do know that these daily briefings can get tedious, and the information, much of it, sounds the same, so people may start to tune it out, but i can tell you the situation is changing, it is evolving, and the information we are putting out is important. Just because the social distancing and hygiene guidance and the stay at home order stays in place after day doesnt mean we shouldnt talk about those things because that will be the key to success in trying to get through this Public Health emergency with the fewest amount of cases and certainly the lowest death toll. I want to think the doctor for being with us today. He has been a practicing physician in new orleans for decades although he does not look that old. Officere chief medical officer. Working with the state office of Public Health and it is great to have you here today. He will take some questions. He will have some prepared comments and take questions after i
From the university of maryland. We will look at the threat with harvard Professor Joseph allen. If you live in the eastern or tral time zones, host time zones, 202 7488000. In the mountain or western, 202 7488001. If you are a nurse or doctor, we would like to hear u. S. We would like to hear you at 202 7488002. Lastw york city, over the 36 hours, over a thousand deaths. U. S. 13,500 deaths in the across the world, now 1. 5 million cases of coronavirus and approaching 89,000 deaths. Joining us from bethesda, maryland, dr. Wilber chen, a disease expert at the university of Maryland School of global medicine and health. Let me begin with the vaccine. There are three phases to incorporate a vaccine. Where are we with covid19 . Respect touest with vaccines, we are just at the beginning. About two weeks ago, we started the first of hopefully many vaccine trials that will be initiated this year. This first vaccine trial is what we call a phase one trial. Have to govaccines through three dif