We have lost a 74yearold male in berkeley county. A 71yearold female in cannot county. An 81yearold male. A 58yearold male in jackson county. And a 96yearold female in jackson county. W, when you look back at it, and again, if all youre going to do is think about stats , the numbers are good. , if you just think about you know, we had 41 deaths and now weve got 46. Inone swoop, we have gone up excess of 10 of our deaths. I just hate it. I really, really hate it. I know our people are doing any and all they can do but i am going to quadruple down and just urge our people in every way. I dont know what else are Health Care Community can do. For crying out loud, they are doing everything. Its just plain terrible and i hate it. Please, please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. These are West Virginians. These are people and these people have names. Like i said over and over, theyve got loved ones. Just truly think about them over the weekend and keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
At that time across the country, americans feared that hospitals would be overwhelmed. We worried we would not have enough icu beds or ventilators. We knew we did not have enough ppe or testing supplies. So here in virginia, we asked you to stay home. We issued restrictions on businesses and gatherings. Urged houses of worship to give sermons online. And moved restaurants to take out and home delivery. Businesses moved to telework and online meetings. We put a hold on elective surgeries. And we all learned a new term, actually two terms, social distancing and physical distancing. We put these restrictions into place, and we waited to see if we were able to flatten the curve. And while we waited, our team monitored data, built new ppe supply chains, strengthened our unemployment system, planned for alternative care facilities, and a strengthened testing system, among other steps. And everyone in virginia made sacrifices. But everything you have done has truly made a difference. We flatt
Networks, cspan. Org and with the free cspan radio app. West Virginia Governor jim justice holds everything with reporters on his states response to the coronavirus. He says states his states cases have been lower than average. From charleston, this is about 50 minutes. Hello, everyone. It is friday, may 8. We have got one really good thing to report. I hope several things, but the first thing that is the most important to me, we have not lost anyone since the last time i was here, yesterday. If you will follow the other states, the other states are losing hundreds a day. Every time we lose one, it is not good. Total. Lost 51 people please keep those people in your thoughts and prayers. Yesterday was a really important day, a national day of prayer. I am sure those families and those people, the great West Virginians we lost appreciate you. I am not going to read you through what has happened in week two and three of the reopening plan, which will begin this coming monday. Guidelines f
Restrictions in his day to allow businesses to reopen that are this month. He talked about the phased approach and other issues related to the coronavirus at a News Conference and a richmond. G]ameras shutterin gov. Northam good afternoon and thanks again for joining us today. I hope that everybody had a nice weekend. Before we talk about the past four, i want to remind everyone of where we have been. Virginia saw its first covid positive case on march 7. Just shy of two months ago. Our lives have changed drastically since then. At that time across the country, americans feared that hospitals would be overwhelmed. We worried we would not have enough icu beds or ventilators. We knew we did not have enough ppe or testing supplies. So here in virginia, we asked you to stay home. We issued restrictions on businesses and gatherings. Urged houses of worship to give sermons online. And moved restaurants to take out and home delivery. Businesses moved to telework and online meetings. We put a
Education and accomplish history professor specializing in early us history hes held the Thomas Jefferson chair in American History at the university for the past five years and before that he taught at the university of california and at boston university. He has written eight previous books on topics ranging from the colonial period to the war of 1812 and beyond two of his works have won a Pulitzer Prize in history in 1996 and William Cooperstown over the politician William Cooper and the novelist james cooper and in 2014 he wrote about slavery in virginia during the war of 1812 and the contradictions of early Virginia Society. Thomas jeffersons education he turned his attention to the establishment of the university of virginia with jefferson of course regarded the university diaz a signature achievement and alan god interested as you see a book on the subject seeing correspondence with the efforts to fund the new school it tend to deal with various ways the American Revolution impa