Are you my friend and im very well thanks very good to see you. Well certainly as i wrote about you did at thought well im a positivist and then i thought well lets see how positives positivists are reacting to a complete lack of sed to me. And house house the court scene holding up for you my friend. You know i dont think of myself as a positive as i think of myself as an optimist i think theres a big difference between the 2 i think positive start to everywhere you go further before you go further tell me that im fascinated by that yeah i think i think being positive is seeing the world through rose rose colored glasses its looking around going everythings fine everythings good everythings good which i think is is that i think is naive and in denial of the world thats going around us as an optimist i am i am not naive to the fact that were in a dark tunnel but i see the light at the end and i think thats what optimism is its believing that that the future is bright and im fixated on
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
Coronavirus pandemic. Talks aboutakabas the u. S. Economy and the Record Number of job losses as a result of the virus. Camila dechalus good morning. It is wednesday. Four weeks since the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic. As of today, nearly 13,000 americans have died of the disease, 400,000 americans have been diagnosed, and a 360 Million People in 42 states in the district and in the district of columbia are living under stayathome orders. We are asking how you are dealing with social distancing . Let us know how it has impacted you, your family and job. We have split up the phone lines by age. If you are under 25, 202 7488000. 2650 years. And if you are 5170 years old, the number is 202 7488002. And if you are over 70 years old, 202 7488003. You can catch up with us on social media. Wj on twitter. And regis on facebook. Reach us on facebook. Call now as we show you the map from the New York Times of the states in which residents have been told the stayathom
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
Once again this morning, for medical professionals we will use 202 7488002. If you would like to text us, that is 202 7488003. Just make sure that you include your name and where you are texting from. On twitter we are at cspan wj. You can also post your comments on facebook. You may have seen a moment ago the tracker that we are following, the johns Hop University tractor, cases at 609,000. Confirmed deaths, 26,059. Worldwide cases are just about 2 million now. The number that you see here, 7905 deaths in new york city, Scott Gottlieb tweeting this morning about that with a chart saying that the positivity rates of new daily tests in new york are showing signs of a gradual decline, but still very high. This is one data point to watch to gauge the direction of the new york epidemic. A different with story, the New York Times, reporting that a review among passedk city deaths has 10,000, new york city, already a world epicenter of the coronavirus out rake, sharply increasing its death t