Over 70,000 missourians have been tested at this time. Want approach may 4, i missourians to feel confident that we are in a good place and ready to move forward. The four essential pillars of our show me strong Recovery Plan are a big part of this. We have met each of these pillars and have full confidence that missouri is prepared and ready to safely reopen. One of the four pillars is Hospital Capacity. I want to repeat what i said yesterday, our hospitals are not overwhelmed. With the exception of the st. Louis region, every region across the state has shown a significant decrease in covid19 hospitalization. Ourill continue to monitor Hospital Capacity as we move forward, but missouri has an Excellent Health care system, the hospitalsou are prepared. Another pillar of our Recovery Plan is testing capacity. Between the state health lab and andeast 15 private labs participating health care institutions, approximately 50,000 tests could be performed each week. 125e are now more than Sa
Gov. Parson good afternoon, and thank you for joining us today. As of noon today, there have positive cases of covid19, including 318 deaths. Over 70,000 missourians have been tested at this time. Want approach may 4, i missourians to feel confident that we are in a good place and ready to move forward. The four essential pillars of our show me strong Recovery Plan are a big part of this. We have met each of these pillars and have full confidence that missouri is prepared and ready to safely reopen. One of the four pillars is Hospital Capacity. I want to repeat what i said yesterday, our hospitals are not overwhelmed. With the exception of the st. Louis region, every region across the state has shown a significant decrease in covid19 hospitalization. Ourill continue to monitor Hospital Capacity as we move forward, but missouri has an Excellent Health care system, the hospitalsou are prepared. Another pillar of our Recovery Plan is testing capacity. Between the state health lab and ande
That the hospitals are prepared. Pillar of our Recovery Plan is testing capacity. Capacity. Between the state health lab and andeast 15 private labs participating health care institutions, approximately 50,000 tests could be performed each week. 125e are now more than Sample Collection sites located throughout the state, and mobile outreach is now available to reach people who may not be able to get to a testing site. Dhs has expanded its testing criteria so more people can be tested, and rapid pointofcare testing devices have been deployed throughout the Sample Collection sites located throughout the state. Also shifted to an aggressive box in approach with testing. This strategy will allow positive patients to be identified and isolated as soon as possible to prevent the virus from spreading further in the community. In addition, we are now utilizing community sampling to specific counties. T last week, the department of Economic Development partnered launched thend google marketplac
Our guest greg walden of oregon, newsmakers sunday at 10 a. M. And 6 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp participate in in a town hall n atlanta with state and local officials on the states response to the coronavirus outbreak of topics include the Homeless Population, procuring medical supplies, the Academic School year and the financial and Economic Impact on the people of georgia and Small Businesses. He also address coronavirus testing priorities and availability across the state. Coronavirus in georgia. There is no need for people to panic. It change changed life as ww it. Schools shut down. Yes, it is very scary. Stores running low on some essentials. The shells of the into. And medical facilities pushed to the limit. Many of our supplies are running critically low. Tonight member of the Coronavirus Task force and georgias governor answer the most pressing questions and lay out their plans to stop the spread. In this time of need on asking georgians to support the
Hello and welcome to a covid 19 special. South dakotas have a lot of questions about the coronavirus. They also have questions about the decisions being made in an effort to slow down the spread. Joining me to help answer some of those questions live, we have governor kristi noem, secretary with the south Dakota Department of health, kim malsamrysdon, and the commissioner of the Governors Office of Economic Development, steve westra. Welcome to all of you. Thank you. We are going to continue to take questions tonight. You can send those via text or email. Our phone number to send a text is 9567372. We are going to get started. We have been receiving questions for the last day and a half. All of those that we will be asking tonight have come from south dakotas except this first one. Governor, i will start with you. You shared some encouraging news with south dakota during your first conference. You spoke to the number of projected hospital beds that we thought would be needed when south