In december of 2019, and infection startedhi in china and is spread rapidly through the wilpon region and by january, there were thousands of people affected to the foremost before the most of the world knew it existed and now almost every country in the world has infections. Hundreds of thousands of people that if in contact with this virus. And unfortunately we have lost thousands of people worldwide. In United States numbers continue to increase and the number of people that we can actually test. Fortunately the vast majority of the people get this virus have little to no symptoms. Cold or mild food to them but for a vulnerable population our elderly population, hard to among issues, smokers diabetics, can be a very serious thing. The challenge that we face in our healthcare, is that for every person that walks in and gets tested, the facetoface their healthcare workers especially in rural areas are saved that may be the only healthcare professional for that entire county. And if th
Law and litigation for more than 28 years. Hes a former chair of the cincinnati bar associations environmental olaw committee and graduate of the new college of the ba at Ohio State University of law. Jd cum laude. Rob received the International Livelihood award commonly known as the nobel prize for his years of work on pfo a. Please give a warm savanna welcome to rob billott. [applause] good morning. Thank you so much for inviting me here. With t to thank everyone the book festival. This is really an amazing event and im honored to be here. Its moving for me to be part of this group and looking through all the otherfolks that are here you are wondering this guy is a lawyer. Whats going onhere . And thats what i want to talk about today is why i ended up writing this oobook exposure and whats the story about and why i believe its an important story forall of us. You know, i think most of the people in this room have probably heard of flint michigan and the lead crisis, right . Im curio
Times of great stress obstacles and fear that often show us who we really are especially who are chosen leaders really are like us congressman richard burr who in his position of Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman heard the news of the impending pandemic before the rest of us and chose to save his own ass sets while selling our physical and financial safety up the river or what about the United States department of justice who instead of seeking to help protect all of us is instead taking a page out of the bush administrations post 911. 00 playbook and is looking to decimate our legal and Constitutional Rights under cover of National Catastrophe politico is now reporting that according to recently uncovered documents submitted by the d. O. J. To congress that the Justice Department has proposed that Congress Grant the attorney general power to ask the chief judge of any District Court to pause Court Proceedings whenever the District Court is fully or partially closed by virtue of a
Reporters on the Coronavirus Response in his state. He presented an update on cases and announced two new debts on from the outbreak. From bratton bruce, this is 40 minutes. Gov. Edwards i thank you all for coming out this afternoon. I appreciate those of you who are here and those of you who are watching online. I am joined by secretary walters from the department of family also buyren services and following my remarks, they will deliver some prepared remarks as well. I am also joined today by dr. Here to answerbe questions if that becomes necessary. I justi came out, learned about to know deaths that we have had in louisiana because of the coronavirus. The total death count is now 10 in the state of louisiana. One of those, most recent, is the 44yearold Orleans Parish with underlying medical conditions, and the other was a lamba house resident. These individuals are in the most at risk category of our citizens because of age and Underlying Health conditions. The fifth total case hous
Alone will not be enough. We have to complement those efforts with a thirdparty investigation appointed by the board of supervisors, tasked with effecting change. We will continue to provide direction where the focus of this special investigator will be and better defining this scope of work, but this is the next step in terms of actually moving forward. The motion allows us to move forward with the process of procurement, and i ask for everybodys support. President yee okay. Seeing no other name on the roster, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, motion passes. [gavel]. President yee next item. Clerk item 16 is an ordinance to amend the health code to require the medical examiner to report the information to the mayor and board of supervisors once every four months of deaths arising from Drug Overdoses. President yee supervisor haney . Supervisor haney thank you, president yee. I want to thank the cosponsors of this, supervisors walton, fewer, ronen, and mar. As