Today is saturday. I know it is saturday because i dont wear a tie on saturday. The total number of hospitalizations are down, again. Interesting to look at the curve, how fast we went up and how relatively slow the decline has been. That shows you the problem of having a spike, a spike happens quickly but resolves slowly. Hospitalizations, intubation is down. Number of new cases per day is also down, 400, which sounds like a large number but this is of 19tatewide population million. 15,000 hospital beds. Lost, 157. Of lives that number has been stubborn. 161, these were all basically in the margin of error, if you will. This system is not that precise. I believe when they actually go back weeks from now and calculate total number of deaths , at deaths, etc. , you will see a variation in this number. We are right about where we were when we started. We want to make sure we do not hell we have gone through. When we talk about reopening, that is a discussion. Half the state now, in terms
Thanks, welcome, congressman brady and welcome to our audience. The acc is not in the News Business that develops are recorded in the news and as everybody knows, doctor fauci testify today, there may be a democrat next phase the meals package, hopefully good news from the 60 sixth chairman of the committee on ways and means. I say chairman because if you are chairman of the ways and Means Committee you are always the chairman. The oldest committee in congress, i wasnt there but i remember it was december 21st, 1795, that the committee was set up with the greatest legislative authority which is relevant now because there are so many pieces of the covid19 challenge. Mister brady is Ranking Member of the committee. Before we begin, i want to thank those courageous selfless americans for helping not only their neighbors but strangers who want to return to work safely. Go to the questions. I will be brief. Thank you for letting me join you. This is really unique in the sense that for four
On march 5, i held a press conference informing marylanders that we had confirmed the first three positive cases of coronavirus in maryland. All stateo mobilize resources, i immediately declared a state of emergency. Since then, we have taken a series of bold, aggressive actions to successfully flatten the curve and avoid the nightmare scenario projected by Public Health experts. 34,000oday, we have had 34,008 hundred 12 confirmed cases of covid19 in maryland. 6404 have been hospitalized in the state. Tragically, 1694 marylanders have died from this disease. But together, our actions and sacrifices prevented hundreds of thousands of marylanders from being infected and saved the lives of thousands of our friends, neighbors, and family members. Causedobal pandemic has and is continuing to cause great , nothip for so many people just here in the state, but all across america and around the globe. For the victims and the families thehose who contracted deadly virus, for the Frontline Healt
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Detention they are playing out within markets. Time now for todays top market moving news from washington and new york. We want to begin in washington, where President Trump extended his National Warning for social distancing in the United States until the end of april, abandoning his easter goal. Pres. Trump we can expect that by june 1, we will be well on our way to recovery. We think by june 1, a lot of great things will be happening. That was aspirational when i said easter. I said it would be great if we could do it by easter. Alix joining me from washington is kevin cirilli. What did we learn in terms of how the government is looking at the lockdown in the u. S. . Kevin President Trump has significantly backed off the claim that he would be able to get life back to normal by easter, now making that marker june 1. Thatresident pushing back timetable to june 1. Over the weekend, talking with sources, i can tell you that the conversation around the next form of economic stimulus wou