Our online data sunny skies sf. Org covid19 for full details. I want to just kind of update all of you on a few things and get to dr. Colfax and some important things that definitely need to be discussed. First of all, this past monday dr. Colfax and i had a monday was yesterday, right . It feels like monday every day, but yesterday dr. Colfax and i, along with dr. Susan phillips, had this great conversation about what it would take to reopen, and we talked about the indicators and the hospitalizations and a number of other things and the various phases. It was a very good conversation, and i think it is needed. What we found from that conversation are, of course, a number of questions, and many questions centered around when will we will able to get child care open, summer camps, schools and other things centered around children because i know many parents are anxious to not just get a break from their children but to get back to work and to get their kids involved in activities, and
Journal is dr. Joseph kvedar, the president elect of the American Telemedicine Association. Dr. Kvedar, thank you for being with us. Tell us the mission of your association and the members you serve. Guest i am delighted to be on with you this morning for such an important topic at such an important time. The ata was formed almost i think 27 years ago, and really the mission is to both educate and advocate, really, for a new model of care delivery, which is enabled by communications technologies. Im sure we will talk about what that means. The members are from a variety of sectors. Folkse a robust group of who supply technologies and services to the industry. We have a number of quite a few Health Care Provider organizations like my own Partners Health care, mass general at womens in boston. Some of the health plans and folks at the payment industry as well. Thatis largely the groups encumber our membership. Kvedar, joining us this morning to talk about telemedicine, telehealth, use of
Inexperienced Severe Weather multiple regions across the state last night, with tornadoes inortedly touching down floyd, murray, walker and other counties. There are 59,000 georgians without power. We have 49 who were injured. 23 homes we know of that were destroyed. 59 other homes have minor damage , and there are 248 homes waiting to be assessed for damage. So far, we have confirmed that seven georgians have lost their life to this terrible storm, and certainly my thoughts and prayers go out to them, as well as their loved ones and their communities. Impact ofwidespread the declared state of emergency this morning for all counties to facilitate the deployment of criticallyneeded resources across our state. In coordination with private sector partners, the department of public safety, the department of Natural Resources, the department of transportation haneda georgia for Street Commission, are all working hard to restore power, clear debris, and provide assistance to the families and
Yet to come. Africans in Southern China say theyre being targeted by coronavirus racism. More youll lose the movie. Also had a very different Easter Sunday for the worlds catholics this year as the popes holy mass is streamed online. And im piece able to do sports in a summation 1900000000. 00 has been wiped off the value of English Premier League squads as the coronavirus threatens long term financial problems for football. We begin this news with the u. S. Which has now surpassed its elites a half the worlds highest coronavirus death toll more than 20600. 00 people a known to have died since the outbreak began Public Health experts are warning that figure could reach 200000 within months if stay at home orders are lifted too soon. You can see that the numbers somewhat. Stabilizing but it is stabilizing at and horrific rate. 783 people 777799 these are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and paid one from the us kristen salumi reports on new yorks worsening Economic Situ
Prevent people from coming into the parks, obviously a lot of them will be driving and theyll have to park. And if you park at places and they promise there will be signs. Just out there letting people know no parking so it will be Crystal Clear to you but if you continue to park at those locations you will get a ticket. They said that over the past week they were giving warning tickets to thousands of people and lets face it everybody should know by now right. Its shelter in place but all obviously a lot of people dont. And theyre continuing to go while they know its going to be even worse come Easter Sunday and thats why effective at midnight. They are going to issue tickets for those who come to locations and ignore shelter in place and give you a 100 ticket and it seems to be non negotiable because they will be signs up at locations near parks in marine county in unincorporated areas. A Marion County for people 10 now a governor has told people for a long time now he was actually i