Outofstate groups are involved s. Organizing the protest good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here this morning. We spoke last night approximately 2 30 a. M. And provided an update of a highly dangerous and rapidly evolving with folks bent on destroying property with no minnesotansafety of and certainly no desire to make a statement other than wanton destruction and chaos. I want to thank the minnesotans who abided by the curfew. Thank hour responders who are out there protecting hour cities protecting our cities. A highly evolved and tightly controlled group of folks bent toadapting their tactics make it as difficult as possible to maintain that order. My mission has been clear to the folks in minnesota in conjunction with the mayor of minneapolis and the mayor of st. Paul protection of citizenry and property is hour top priority, and maintaining and restoring civil order on the streets. I think what is really important to recognize is the tactics and approach that we have take
State are on track to move to phase three of the reopening plan before the end of may. He also announced illinois has become the number one state in the nation for coronavirus testing per capita. This is just over one hour. Welcome to our tuesday, may 19, daily update. We are going to started off with the medical update from dr. Ngozi ezike. Dr. Ezike thank you, governor. Good afternoon, everyone. I will get right to the medical update. Since yesterday, we are reporting 1500 45 additional individuals with covid19. We now have 98,030 total cases in the state of illinois. This does include 146 additional people with covid19 who have been reported to have died in the last 24 hours. A total of 4379 fatalities. Of those, 993 were the icu and 576 were on ventilators. There is evidence that the stayathome plans are working. I know people are asking, but why are there so many cases and why are people continuing to die . But we know that the number of cases is a big function of how many tests w
20. 5 in a data set thats never been more than 2 million in a single month, numbers we never expected to talk about no. The numbers are just completely and totally shocking not unexpected however given the carnage thats taken place in the economy over the last month as we locked everything down those lockdowns ending around the country. Things starting to at least normalize in some states the question will be of the 18 million workers who describe themselves as a temporary layoff of that 20 million, how many really will get their jobs back is a key given the markets reaction today, there seems to be an expectation that most of them will that will remain a question over the next many months as we hope that the economy does start to return to some semblance of normalcy mike, lots of internals to dig through here average Hourly Earnings show a chasm between lowerpaid employees in the country and those with higher wages who, judging from the data, lost their jobs at a slower pace. Yeah, no
Of care that they deserve. If it becomes delayed, it becomes acute. Reozone watch willing rely on two factors, testing and tracking the virus. The lack of swab testing has been a major obstacle. Here are the numbers. In march, california was conducting on average 2,000 tests a day. As of april 14th, that number increased to 10,000. Today the number has grown to 16,000 tests a day. The goal by the end of this month is to have 25,000 tests done every day. But newsom said the biggest challenge lies ahead. He wants 60 to 80 thou tests done on any given day. A phone conversation with President Trump an hour before his press conference gave newsom some reassurances. The president secured and gave me the confidence that we will receive just this week a minimum of 100,000 swabs. There are 261 core testing sites in california. Any expansion of these sites will rely on the equipment and supplies the state receives. The governor gave no indication when businesses like barbershops, nail salons, or
A huge agreement has been reached between the Trump Administration and u. S. Airlines for a bailout package in the billions included in the 2 trillion dollars stimulus package signed on march 27th was about 25000000000 dollars for the Airline Industry but until now the Treasury Department and the airlines had not come to an agreement on exactly how or under what conditions the airlines would receive that money now the greenman which came together late tuesday includes warrants that could lead to the federal government owning equity stakes in the companies and requirements that 30 percent of the assistance would have to be paid back now according to treasury secretary Kerry Stephen minucci and the airlines that will receive the funding include Alaska Airlines Allegiant Airlines American Airlines Delta Airlines Frontier Airlines Hawaiian Airlines jet blue united sky west and Southwest Airlines now conversations continue with airlines regarding their potential participation now thats of c