Gov. Murphy good afternoon, everyone. I am honored to be joined by the woman on my right, my partner in government, the Lieutenant Governor, great to have you back with us. To her right, the commissioner of health. Great to have you here with us. Also on my far left, great to have the superintendent of state police. With us today, another special guest, immediately to my left, the congressman, who will be able to give us a federal perspective. If that were not enough, in row isabout 10 feet to my right medical director in the department of health, it is great to have you with us, as well. Lets start as we have been doing, we have someone from the department of homeland security. Lets start as we usually do with updated numbers and charts. Because we are going a little bit earlier today, these numbers are of last night. Dont read a lot into the sunday or monday numbers on their own. We have weekend uneasiness. Have a is not enough, we little bit of a delay in getting these today because
Reduce the spread of covid19. Reliance on doctors to provide the safest strategies. Thee, a focus on protecting most vulnerable from exposure to covid19. That it isnder entrepreneurs who drive the texas economy. They need to restore livelihoods while all of us remain focused on protecting the lives of our fellow texans. We are texans. We got this. James hudgins. To thank you, governor. Over the past few months the state has faced unprecedented challenges. But your leadership combined with the incredible resilience , weexans across the state have made tremendous progress in the fight against covid19. We know that we need to get the texas economy back on track. We also know that this can only be done if we contain the spread of covid and keep texans safe. By your actions, today is a major step forward towards accomplishing that mission. I would like to thank our experts, theyr have worked very hard, as the governor said. I would like to thank all the members of the Strikeforce Team who h
Accompanied by the Vice President of the United States. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you. Today i would like to provide you with an update in our war against the coronavirus. Thanks to our comprehensive strategy and extraordinary devotion to our citizens, we have had such tremendous support all over, we continue to see encouraging signs of progress. Cases in new york area, new orleans, detroit, boston, and houston are declining. Seattle, washington, d. C. , indianapolis, and st. Louis are all stable and declining. All parts of the country are in good shape, in all cases getting better. And we are seeing very little that we are going to look at as a superseding hotspot. Hings are moving along really a horrible situation that we have been confronted with, but they are moving along. As we express our gratitude for these hardfought gains, we continue to mourn with thousands of families across the country whose loved ones have been stolen from us by the invisible enemy. We grieve
We welcome you to this primetime edition of the washington journal. With the senate back in session today, we will talk to a leading vaccine expert from newton, massachusetts. Later, we will examine some of the new side effects from this virus. We hope you join in on the conversation. Our phone lines are open. If you live in the eastern or central time zone. For those of you out west if you are a medical professional, we would love to hear from you. Good monday evening. Thank you for being with us. Lookgin as we always do, at the numbers from Johns Hopkins university. Now around the world, the number of coronavirus cases approaching 3. 6 million in 187 countries and regions. The death toll has exceeded 251,000 around the globe. Joining us from massachusetts is dr. Mark poznansky, director of the vaccine and Immunotherapy Center at mass general hospital. I want to begin with the headline today from the new york times. As states moved to reopen, at least one model predicting the u. S. De
Home, stay healthy, stay connected. Our rules are, stay home. No nonessential trips outside the household. We want people to work. Work from home if you can and if youre going to the workplace, practice all those good social, physical distancing guidelines we talked about like six feet distance between people and so forth. Avoid no groups above number of 10 people. That sort of thing. We want number three. We want to make sure people shop alone. So when you go out, go once a week, have a list, be efficient, get in the store, get out of the store. Stores are in an opportunity to catch the virus so be efficient when you go to the store, do not take your entire family to the store. One person goes shopping for everybody. And then of course we want to make sure we help kids socially distance by keeping them at home to play, avoiding playgrounds, dont do group sports. Help seniors, help them stay in by running err ands for them or shopping for them. So that they can avoid those crowds. And