State are on track to move to phase three of the reopening plan before the end of may. He also announced illinois has become the number one state in the nation for coronavirus testing per capita. This is just over one hour. Welcome to our tuesday, may 19, daily update. We are going to started off with the medical update from dr. Ngozi ezike. Dr. Ezike thank you, governor. Good afternoon, everyone. I will get right to the medical update. Since yesterday, we are reporting 1500 45 additional individuals with covid19. We now have 98,030 total cases in the state of illinois. This does include 146 additional people with covid19 who have been reported to have died in the last 24 hours. A total of 4379 fatalities. Of those, 993 were the icu and 576 were on ventilators. There is evidence that the stayathome plans are working. I know people are asking, but why are there so many cases and why are people continuing to die . But we know that the number of cases is a big function of how many tests w
Challenge, not only to our Public Health system and our health in general, there is an and normas challenge to our economy and chair powell and his colleagues responded to this crisis. Solutions create of with credit flowing to houses and businesses and prepare the economy so it can recover when this virus recedes. And it surely will, ladies and gentlemen. Your work, sir, and that of your colleagues, is far from over, but we are in good hands under your leadership. Indeed, leaders are tested in crisisf crisis and this tests our leadership in no uncertain terms. You have risen to the occasion. It is safe to say we and all americans have appreciated your calm, decisive leadership in this moment of peril and on behalf of of all of us at brookings, please let me commend you on the powerful example of American Leadership you have set for us all and continue to display every single day as you perform your duties. You are an inspiration and example to all of us. Today, we will shortly give yo
America . Is it something reserved for those at the top . Opportunity, opportunity, for every one of our kids and i underline every one of our kids to get a first rate education. Withu got kids coming out 200,000 worth of debt. They cannot survive and we are taking away opportunities from them and thats wrong. Statistics show that when people go to college, in up they dont complete it, they have a different horizon of opportunity. Thehe crisis is all over nation. Kids are underon the age of 30 and have debt. We visited the Cal State University Chancellors Office to get their opinion on free college tuition. Or three jobs depending on the semester in college. Havehad been free, i would had more opportunity and more time to focus on my academics. Theyen they leave college, have more purchasing power. People with more purchasing power cried the economy. People waiting longer to have children, they are waiting longer to buy houses, they are waiting longer to do a lot of things because they
Needed in your view . Eastern and central time zones, mike trout 8000 and pacific, 2027488001. Go to send us a text or acebook. Com cspan. U. S. Today front page, unemployment amid outbreak hits 17 million. Layoff spung economy into a hideous state, just below on this front page of u. S. Today, you can see a woman here in her car wearing a mask in hialeah, florida, collecting unemployment. The story says the economy continues to shed job that are jawdropping pace and there is little sign that payroll losses will ease significantly any time soon amid the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Here is the front page of the New York Times this morning. Its terrifying says the headline from one person who is being interviewed by the times. Millions more out of work. Efforts by the u. S. To halt economic damage cant keep up. Thats the New York Times. In terms of keeping up, congress as we mentioned did meet up yesterday but lawmakers hit an impasse of the next step. A congressional effort to b
See, and the university of chicago has about 100 patients admitted on average every day with coronavirus. We are doing just fine. Ppere stretched with our but have enough to get us through this time now. We prepared for the surge of patients and are prepared should the numbers get higher. The stayathome order in illinois is making a difference. See it helping to us flatten out the curve, and a steady run in the hospital to be able to manage those patients. We have a lot of critically ill patients across the state of illinois, and you have seen the demographics that suggest illinois and chicago, the demographic is affecting our africanamerican population a lot more than some of our white neighborhoods. Takee doing our best to care of them and provide outstanding care. I think you wanted to know when this will all end, and that is the question of the day. One important thing for people to understand is the point of flattening the curve so we can spread out the infection. That does not me