12,000 Community Health center sites around the nation. They are strategically placed in every state, territory, the district of columbia and rico. Care, dentalary care, Mental Health and Substance Abuse disorders. We are really the safety net. We have 49 medicaid patients. 23 uninsured. We provide primary care to the communities that need it. Host for those uninsured, what happens with those folks . Guest we have a great relationship with the bureau of primary health care. They administer the Public Health grant which includes Community Health centers. It enables us to take care of people that have no health insurance. We have a sliding fee according annualr family size and income. For funding, we just saw the president and congress sign a . 3 billion in emergency supplemental. There is 100 million for emergency Health Centers. It will primarily be for supplies for personal protective equipment and to support centers. Host is that enough . Guest we can always use more. It is a start.
In, vice dean for public practice at the John Hopkins School for Public Health. The cases we talked about at the beginning of the show were reported cases, jumped by 5000 since yesterday. When you compare this to other Public Health crises, other viruses, i should say, what sort of jump is that . How concerned are you by that jump . Guest it is consistent with spread of a virus through a susceptible population. Some of that is testing is becoming more available. The reason testing is finding so many cases is so many people are infected. We are talking about a virus no human being has seen before, before a few months ago. We are all susceptible. That makes the spread fast. Host do you think the approach, the nationwide approach at least, in terms of prioritizing social distancing of people isolating, staying at home and secondarily, ramping up testing is the right approach . Do we need to be more aggressive with testing nationwide . Guest we are trying to be more aggressive with testing
This coming out of china this morning. The Unemployment Rates surge to 6. 2 in china, and bank of japan is boosting stimulus this morning doubling stocks purchases. They are buy equities at the bank of japan because yield and tenure fall this morning. Were down 18 basis is point on the tenure at. 800 . Over this 200 coronavirus cases now here in america. West virginia, the only state with no known cases. More school ises are closing major restrictions are being put on businesses and travel. The cdc urging no gatherings of more than 50 people. Vaccine trials meanwhile are starting today. That is one certainly note of optimism. Trump declared National Emergency urging americans against hoarding as Grocery Store is shelveses are emptying out. The president taking part in a Video Conference of with g7 lead percent today to coordinate a response to the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile this, senate is expected to vote in coronavirus release bill today. They were there late until 1 a. M. Frida
Moderna theyre looking forward to move to vaccine testing. Were heeding warnings of social distancing. Were separating out. Were over an hour from the latest virus tax force briefing. What can we expect . I dont know. Here is what larry kudlow told me of possible stimulus. Roll the tape. Well reach for every available way to mitigate and stem and undergird both the health side and the economic side. Stuart his actual expression was, whatever it takes. All of that and more on making money. Stuart were sinking. Stocks are sinking across the board. There is economic uncertainty. The fed stepped in with rate cuts and injection of cash. Right now weve got the markets off of their lows of the day but only just. Here is an old friend of mine, old colleague, market watcher shah gilani. All right, shah, we saw this morning at the opening bell. We dropped 7 . Reopened the market. We dropped 12 . I was inclined to think that was the washout selling, catastrophe selling, the capitulation selling t
Columbia and also puerto rico. And rico. We offer primary includes primary care, mental andth care, oral Health Substance use. We have 49 medicaid patients, 23 uninsured, so we are on the front lines providing care to those who really need it. Host for those uninsured, what happens . How much are you paid back for services . Guest it is a great benefit. We have a great relationship with the bureau of primary health care. Thatminister the grant includes the Health Centers, so 60 of each budget is made of that and enables us to take care of people, 22 have no health insurance, so we have a sliding fee according to family size and annual income, so they can afford to cs. Host for funding, we saw congress and the president signed a 8. 3 billion emergency supplemental. What is there for Community Health centers . There is 100 million for emergency Health Centers. It will primarily be for supplies for personal protective equipment and to support centers. Host is that enough . Guest we can al