General Patrick Murphy was in charge of our National Guard for many years. Did an outstanding job. Ive been with him in many emergency situations over the years. Hes a man who leads from the front. Hes my type of leader. He had so much fun that he retired and came and joined us as commissioner of homeland security. This team, new yorkers should have total confidence because they have done it before. Theyve been in the situation. Not this exact situation, but theyve handled emergencies and theyve handled them all very well. They are proven. Lets go through this for an update on where we are today. Everyone knows what we are dealing with. Its preventing overload of the Health Care System, so the number of acute cases are coming in to the Health Care System, the growth in the number of acute cases must match the capacity of the Health Care System and that is what we have been working on. The rate of icu hospitalizations even more closely, the difference between the number of beds you need
L wrence has more. President trump reiterating his call for the u. S. To maintain social distancing guidelines for another month to help prevent the spread of covid19 the more we commit ourselves now the sooner we can win the and return to our lives. And they will be great lives. But the fight is far from over there are more than 3,000 us deaths from the virus. And because of the threat of infection. Some like the show bennett are unable to say goodbye to loved ones in person we get the phone call for face time you know she could have right up to my mothers face and. You know i could i could tell my mom and loved her and how much i was going to miss are among the other covid19 victims at least 5 veterans at the holyoke soldiers home in massacsetts. The superintendent of that facility is now on paid administrative leave. And as the number of deaths rises Health Officials say the virus. Could surge later this year i would anticipate that that would actually happen because of the greed of
Facility is now on paid administrative leave. And as the number of deaths rises Health Officials say the virus. Could surge later this year i would anticipate that that would actually happen because of the greed of transmissibility. However if you come back in the fall. It will be a totally different ballgame our ability to go out and be able to test identify isolate. And contact race will be orders of magnitude better then what it was just a couple of months ago, im John Lawrence reporting. Will spain has suffered its worst day in the coronavirus outbreak officials there reporting 849 people died yesterday because of the virus and there were more than 9,000 new cases reported in just a 24 hour span. Spain has become the 3rd country in the world overtake chinas death toll or chinas total infection number. Theyre behind italy and the united states. More testing is done more cases in california are being reported. Take a look at the latest numbers more than 7,000 cases, according to john
Person we get the phone call for face time you know she could have right up to my mothers face and. You know i could i could tell my mom and loved her and how much i was going to miss are among the other covid19 victims at least 5 veterans at the holyoke soldiers home in massachusetts. The superintendent of that facility is now on paid administrative leave. And as the number of deaths rises Health Officials say the virus. Could surge later this year i would anticipate that that would actually happen because of the greed of transmissibility. However if you come back in the fall. It will be a totally different ballgame our ability to go out and be able to test identify isolate. Contact trace will be orders of magnitude better then what it was just a couple of months ago, im john lawr nce reporting. And internationally spain now has suffered its worst day in the coronavirus outbreak officials there saying now 849 people died yesterday alone due to the coronavirus and there are more than 9
With any particular benefit. It does have benefits psychologically socially and there are social norms around that and we dont criticize the wearing of masks and have not done so, but there is no specific evidence to suggest the wearing of masks by the mass population has any partular benefit. Again we expect hear something today that word could come from the cdcs will be monitoring that if they make that commendation again that does not mean you should wear a surgical mask or an and 95 those are for health care were absolutely to be the cloth masks the to be best use case for tt. Meantime the various stay at home order has been extended for another month mayor london breed says will be a formal announcement later today, yeah, in fact the Health Department is going unveil their plans kron fours Charles Clifford has more on the story. Mayor london breed said that City Residents should be prepared to remain sheltered in place for at least another month until may first as the city tries t