And if you want more information, you can please visit datasf. Org covid19. Its or tracker with detailed information around testing and other helpful information by zip code that people may be interested in seeing. And today, i had a couple of things to talk about specifically, the new health order issued on friday by our county Health Officers and i really mention this on friday, but i think this is really exciting, that even though we still have challenges that exist, the ability to allow people to get back to work is so important. And construction in our city will be allowed, as well as outdoor businesses and today, i just want to express, again, my appreciation of the outdoor activities, outdoor businesses and how important it is to make sure that we start to gradually get back to business. We know our governor announced a plan that he will release on guidelines, as well as timing of when some of our Small Businesses, our book stores, small retailers can get back to work and i thin
With james hodge who is director of the center for Public Health law and policy at Arizona State university. Washington journal is next. Is next. Is next host good morning. This is washington journal for tuesday, march 17, 2020. There is very little celebrating planned due to the shutdown of bars and restaurants nationwide because of the coronavirus and further restrictions and limited by the federal government, the white house, State Governments and localities. We would love to hear what you are seeing in response to the outbreak. The7488000 is the line in eastern and central time zones. For mountain and pacific residence, 2027488001. In the line we have set aside for medical professionals. Your line, 2027488002. We would love to hear your experience. You can text us a message. That is 2027488003. We would love to hear where you are texting from, your name as well. Andwitter we are cspanwj post your comments on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. There was a briefing yesterday with the Cor
Saw a briefing yesterday by the White House Task force and a number of news outlets have reported a ramping up, this turn from the president. What did you hear in terms of extra measures that came out of the briefing that caught your ear . Host many countries have been aggressively getting guest many countries have been aggressively doing social distancing. The u. S. Has been very slow to that. Particularly the federal government has not been urging it. Just two days ago for the first time cdc recommended that there should be no gatherings of 50 people or more, which is way too many. The president yesterday said that we should try to avoid gatherings of 10 people or more. Thats probably too many also. But this indicates to me that we are in whole new territory. I have been working on and globaldiseases health through my life and i have never seen anything like this and i think americans should expect in the coming weeks to have extraordinarily strict measures of social distancing. Even
Cspan. Org coronavirus. Host another briefing late yesterday at the white house of the Coronavirus Task force. We will show you bits of that throughout the morning and we will hear from you as well. Here is the reporting on that briefing, the front page of the Washington Times. Shut down. U. S. To the president changes tone as coronavirus threat to america grows more serious. They write that President Trump implored americans to stop eating inside restaurants, bars and food courts to avoid groups of 10 or more for the next 15 days as the u. S. Tries to avoid the fate of china and italy in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. The guidelines say americans should avoid discretionary travel and stay home if they are sick. President trump also wants americans to work from home if possible to disrupt chains of transmission. The Washington Times writes it was a shift in tone from mr. Trump relate in february protected that the u. S. Would tackle all of its cases swiftly, he now sa
Days the California National guard has been put on alert and schools are closed for the foreseeable future. What you need to know tonight to keep your family safe is most of the bay area is under a shelterinplace order kron 4 news at 5 starts right now. Thanks for joining us. Everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus tonight we are continuing to practice social distancing here at kron 4 we are of course encouraging you to do the same. For the first time global cases of covid 19 have surpassed 200,000 as the death toll around the world and here at home just keeps on climbing. In the bay area there are now more than 400 cases Santa Clara County is a local hot spot for cases there are 175 6 deaths there officials announce another death from tuesday of a man in his 60s, San Mateo County has 80 81 death the San Francisco county has 51 Contra Costa County 41 Alameda County 31 Solano County has 8 moraine county 15 Sonoma County has 8 and napa county has no confirmed cases at this time.