House Coronavirus Task force. I couldnt be more proud of the efforts of the men and women standing behind me and those standing behind them. President trump sent from early on this would be a whole of government approach, and today gives evidence of the fact that it is a whole of america approach. We are bringing the full resources of the federal government and full resources of this great economy and our great business sector to bear in protecting the American People and american families. A few updates from today. As we continue to expand testing availability across the country testing is available at all state labs and by the end of the week there will be 4 million more tests made available in jurisdictions across the country. One million more are already in place thanks to the work of the labs President Trump brought together yesterday. Lab corps and quest are in the process now of distributing and marketing coronavirus tests all across america, and we are working with straight wit
Are 196 in Santa Clara County, the most in the bay area. San mateo county has 100 reported a San Francisco county with 76 contra costa with more than 40 and Alameda County with 35. Were also tracking the growing number of cases statewide the California Department of health released. New numbers tonight showing how cases really spiked each day this week we started with 3. 92 monday. And tonight there are more than 1200 cases statewide and this is attributed to ramped up testing this week Health Officials say. Are about 12,000 tests right now. Well, the results are pending. And today millions of californians stayed home from work and school after governor Gavin Newsome issued a statewide a stay at home order yesterday. Kron fours dan kerman explains how badly is this order hurting the economy. What the rest of california starting to experience San Francisco has been doing for 4 days and this is the result of the stay at home order empty streets and most stores shut down we can tolerate t
Coronavirus. Well have live coverage here on cspan3 wednesday afternoon at 2 30 p. M. Eastern. It will also be online at cspan. Org and you can also listen live on the free cspan radio app. Today, federal Health Officials answered questions. Good morning. The committee on health, education, labor, and pensions will please come to order. I have one goal today and that is Accurate Information. Accurate information that can help americans understand what they should do about the coronavirus and Accurate Information to help members of congress to decide what else we ought to be doing about the coronavirus. Around the world, the spread of the Novel Coronavirus is alarming. 90,000 cases in 65 countries, 3,000 deaths according to the World Health Organization. But most people in the United States are at low risk. Here is what the New York Times said on its front page two days ago on sunday in describing the situation in our country. Quote, much about the coronavirus remains unclear and it is
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