What do you owe the variance to . Heroic efforts on behalf of people as facilitated by government. That was phase one. Now we have to go to phase two. Big challenge Going Forward is testing. It will not be done perfectly. We cant bring it up to scale in in period of time. I will tell you that. We can do better working together than working apart. Thats the federal state partnership. I will do my part as a governor. The other governors will do their part. The federal government is involved in testing. We have to Work Together and do the best we can. We will. I have faith we will because we have in the past. The govern signed an executive order to allow Funeral Directors who retired or from out of state to be able to be licensed immediately in new york to help with some of the backlog. On the weddings yesterday the executive ordered that we did allowed clerks to perform the weddings remotely and today the governor signing a new executive order to allow anybody who is licensed to be able
Good evening, again in last 24 hours more than 4,000 people have died of coronavirus in this country. Heard a researcher talk about new modeling that shows 60,000 fatalities by early august, more than killed during 15 years of fighting in vietnam. With that as backdrop, country grappling to get back to some sort of normality, president and task force briefed the country tonight, lot of slides and details, federal backup on coronavirus testing but not a centralized federal plan for managing it, implementing it, helping pay for it, supplying materials needing to do it or taking responsibility for it. President took questions about his support for protesters in three states to resist social distancing guidelines, the guidelines his own task force is calling for. Sent out three tweets saying liberate those states. That and much more ahead. Kaitlan collins, any better sense why the president is talking about liberating certain states . From the very guidelines that he and the task force hav
War time president , fighting a war against invisible enemy, and hes telling people to defy the guidelines that he himself has set out, liberate their states from democratic governors, i mean where do things stand with states reopening . Governors and president not on the same page certainly in terms of testing, and no sign of further embrace of testing by this president. Reporter weve been wondering all week if the president has been hearing concerns about testing. Tonight we saw at least his officials were, came out to lay out where they were with testing. He believes there are some states that need to meet the criteria to start phase one and some states have the testing levels that they believe will lead to start the reopening phase. Didnt say which states they were, didnt want to encourage that, leaving up to the governors. We didnt really get a clear picture of what they are going to do to ramp up testing. Dr. Fauci said testing is not only criteria, we know that, dr. Sanjay gupta
A sign welcomes visitors to Rocky Boy s Reservation.
We’ve previously reported that Native American tribes in Montana have some of the highest vaccination rates in the state. YPR News’ Kaitlyn Nicholas went to two tribal nations to report on how these vaccine rollouts have been so successful and what new challenges are emerging. Her first stop was a recent mass COVID-19 vaccine event on the Rocky Boy’s reservation.
In a large open room at Stone Child College, Rocky Boy Health Center is offering a mass vaccine clinic. At stations throughout the room, residents and workers in the area can check-in, learn about COVID-19 vaccines and possible side effects, get a shot from one of the nurses and are observed for 15 minutes to be sure they don’t have a negative reaction. The event is open to walk-ins so anyone who comes in can get their first or second dose.