Nursing home is dealing with one of the largest concentrations of deaths at a longterm care facility in our country. Our Nursing Homes and longterm care facilities are facing the same challenges as every part of the country. Ppe andd testing and the staff are overworked. The people who live in longterm care facilities are already vulnerable to sickness. Social because of distancing, they cannot even see their loved ones. But these are our parents and grandparents. We have a special obligation to protect them. In addition to our responsibility to protect Public Health. Our doctor am giving a larger role in leading our efforts to help our Nursing Homes and long care longterm care facilities mitigate the cases they have and prevent further outbreaks. Llano, shew dr. For is that Deputy Commissioner for Public Health at our department of health. She is also leading our covid19 mitigation strategy. She will lead a Task Force Made s and several secretariat agencies. She will work with our sec
Groups. Long story short, i was invited to speak at a church in Washington County in july 2016. The church was celebrating their 150th anniversary, and they invited me to come up and talk about what it mightve been like trying to start a church in the immediate aftermath of the american civil war. My wife and i drove up and we walked into the back of the sanctuary, and there was one lady sitting in the sanctuary, and she jumps up, runs to the back, shakes my hand, and says my family and i have something we think you may have an interest in. Would you come out to the car after the program . I said, sure. I go out to the car, she opens the trunk and tells me to hold my arms out. And shes in and out the truck, and the stack is growing taller and taller. And i say, what do we have here . And she says, these are my grandfather Thomas Wallace colleys seven volumes of handwritten journals of his service in the first virginia cavalry and his postwar life. I thought i was going to fall over in
Life expectancy continues to fall. What is this distinctly american phenomenon that you found . Well, mortality rates are not supposed to be going up for the past century and most wealthy countries, the u. S. Included, weve seen our Life Expectancy in the u. S. , the mortality is supposed to be going down, but it is backwards. What we have seen is the death rates in the working age population increasing, and reversing years of progress that we have made in improving the health. What is behind the study . Why did you do it . Well, our center of society and health at vcu studies the Population Health trends as have other experts in the field. And we have been aware of something awry for many years, and recently many years of Life Expectancy decline for three years in a row, but the analysis is showing decades of the making and the u. S. Started to fall since the 1980s. How does it stack up against other countries in the same time span, and other economicallydeveloped countries. That is t
Time is running out to stop a Global Climate disaster, and temperatures rising even further, according to a new report from the United Nations. The Un Environment Agency says over the next decade, global emissions need to fall by more than 7 every year to have any chance of avoiding warming the planet by more than 1. 5 celsius. Even the current rise in temperatures is having an effect, as droughts become more common all over the world. Australia has seen one of its longest dry spells. Thats made the massive bushfires in New South Wales and queensland even worse. And in zimbabwe in southern africa, serious drought is threatening urban and rural life. The Bbcs Stephen Sackur has just been there. When the Zambezi River is in full flow, you can see why the explorer David Livingstone called it a view for the angels. But look at the falls now. This is what southern africas prolonged drought means. The volume of water is down by two thirds. Here we are at this viewpoint. Yes. Its called the H
And at 9 00 a. M. , dr. Steven on a new study of Life Expectancy in the u. S. The Supreme Court yesterday to go up its first one rights case in nearly a decade. How or even whether the court will decide that case is still to come. This morning, we would like to hear from you on the issue. Good morning, it is tuesday, december 3, 2019. We will start with your views on gun laws and how they should be changed or not changed. If you think gun laws should be more strict, the number to call is 2027488000. If you think gun laws should be less strict or loosened, 2027488001. If you think gun laws should be capped as they are, that line is 2027488002. You can send us a text. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. That line, 2027488003. On twitter, tweet us at cspanwj. You can post your thoughts at facebook. Com cspan. Top of also keep you on the latest in the impeachment coming with the report out today and President Trump at the nato meetings in london. We will have th