Ricketts brief reporters on the States Coronavirus response monday. He gave an update current case numbers and on the more than 975 hospitalizations. This runs just under an hour. Gov. Ricketts good morning, everybody. Thanks for joining us on the states response to the pandemic. As usual, we will start off by reminding people that with the virus still in our commute, we need everybody to please continue to practice all the tools we gave you, follow our rules to be able to slower slow the spread of the virus. That means we need to keep that six foot of distance between you and other people when we wax you you are in public, and other people when you are in public. Secondsr hands for 20 at a time to kill the virus. Stay home when you are sick. Thats a big deal. I note nebraskans love to work and they want to get back at it. But if youve got any symptoms, you need to stayathome. Please go get tested, but dont go into work if youve got any symptoms. Of course that should be true even if y
We are creating the candidate pool doing selections from the candidate pool and bringing those staff in and selecting who we are going to offer employment to. Final category being staff that has been on boarded. That number is 84. That includes people and this number is much larger than it was two weeks ago. That including people who have either been offered a job and accepted and we have at least tentative start work date for people who have already started work. These are positions that have been onboarded from december 2022 to the present. Those 84 positions have started or will start work scheduled in january or february. We are pleased with that progress that we are seeing some movement in getting selections made and staff on boarded. As you can see from that middle column we have a large amount of work to do over the next 60 days to make those selections and get people onboarded in the system. I will pause and turn this over to dr. Cummings to answer specifically your questions a
We are creating the candidate pool doing selections from the candidate pool and bringing those staff in and selecting who we are going to offer employment to. Final category being staff that has been on boarded. That number is 84. That includes people and this number is much larger than it was two weeks ago. That including people who have either been offered a job and accepted and we have at least tentative start work date for people who have already started work. These are positions that have been onboarded from december 2022 to the present. Those 84 positions have started or will start work scheduled in january or february. We are pleased with that progress that we are seeing some movement in getting selections made and staff on boarded. As you can see from that middle column we have a large amount of work to do over the next 60 days to make those selections and get people onboarded in the system. I will pause and turn this over to dr. Cummings to answer specifically your questions a
Is outside the white house, elon is there in washington standing by with the latest on the tax bill itself. Lets start with you, what do we know about this event coming up . Reporter theyre not actually going to do a bill signing. The sbil not ready to be signed just yet, but this is very much a Party Atmosphere here on the south lawn of the white house. We have the marine band going through a list of Christmas Carols a few moments ago theyre serving hot drinking over here. Some of the vips and dignitaries have gathered in the audience. You can see behind me, republican members of congress lined up on the steps just above the south port co. Here on the south lawn of the white house. This is a unified Republican Party right now. Theyve been through a lot of tough infighting particularly over obamacare, this is a big win. This is a moment in which youve seen the president of the United States already today handing out praise to republican leaders, some of whom hes been attacking earlier
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