Gov. Edwards how are you doing today . Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for being here. This press conference is going to serve as a briefing both on the Severe Weather experienced across louisiana yesterday and also my Daily Briefing on covid19. I want to thank all of our local officials that have joined us today. Mayore mayor jamie mayo, mitchell and other elected officials including senators Katrina Jackson and senator j kathy and senator stewart and representative ackles. We also have representative jones, i think. We do. Right there. Good to see you. Can hear from you congressman Ralph Abraham and we also have here today with us as i have had every day in baton rouge, the doctor from the department of health you can answer specific questions related to covid19 testing. And other things related to the coronavirus. We just completed a tour of some of the tornado damage across north louisiana. Tornadoese two confirmed in this parish though the main one was an ef to that had win
Questions. What is the plan for testing people who have had or believe they have had covid19 and recovered . Is a test being developed to determine immunity . The doctor mentioned that a little bit ago. The test that determines, not if you are infected but if you have been infected and you have what they call antibodies against the virus, which is a sign that you have been exposed and infected, but it could be in indication that you are now immune and essentially protected from being infected again. Are still a lot of unknowns that we need to be careful of because we still do not know the relationship between the level of antibody and the degree of protection. Total not sure what the immunity is. Many of these antibody tests that are out there have not been completely and totally validated. Telling us that they are butistent and reproducible, the answer to the question, when we do get an antibiotic that can be widely distributed, we can get an idea of the degree of exposure of the gene
To hear and see today is a great demonstration that the entrepreneurial and Pioneering Spirit is alive and well within health care in the could in the dakotas. Are goinger way, we on offense against the virus. I want to thank the governor for her support. And everything the secretary has done. Their theroduce from governor to make a couple of comments. Will talkysicians about trial specifics. Good morning, everyone. We continue every day across the state of south dakota to allow facts and science to drive our decisionmaking. Fortunately, thanks to all of the people who live in this state, we are doing well. The spread has slowed down. Had we taken no action whatsoever, the original modeling had us peeking in the middle of april. What we have been able to do by putting in mitigation efforts, limiting group sizes old to stay limiting group sizes, telling people to stay home, focusing on hygiene and washing hands, we have been able to push that peak off. Today, we have an announcement abo
Association of American Railroad president on Railroad Freight and passenger travel during coronavirus. President trump is expected to name a commission on reopening the u. S. As the coronavirus abates. Plans are in place to coordinate reopening. Good morning. Welcome to washington journal. Who should take the lead in the reopening of the u. S. Here are the lines. Mountain and pacific, send us the reporting this morning of the wall street the two groups of governors said they would coordinate efforts to gradually sociald as this is andes distancing. President trump said he had authority on restarting the economy. This comes after a decline in daily infection rates, propped officials to express cautious optimism. The same reporting in the Washington Times. Control of the reopening. West coast box trumps claim of ultimate authority. They are crafting plans for reopening schools and businesses in their state, putting them on a collision course with President Trump. He said he had the ulti
Concerns Jennifer Hartstein, what are you seeing . Guest were all in this global, anxious moment together, and we are seeing a lot of anxiety, worry, a lot of fear. For many, that translates to feeling sad and just overwhelmed, because we are kind of on this crazy roller coaster together, and it is a global phenomenon in a way we have not really seen. Certain disasters happen to certain areas, but this is happening across the board, so it is unprecedented and is kind of impacting all of us. Host it is entering the fifth week here at the national emergency, really of the beginning of the shut down, particularly in new york and many other states. Over the past few weeks, how have concerns or issues changed among the people you have spoken with . Guest i think were kind of in the calm of the storm. I think the hurricane started and everybody is lulled into the moment of this is what it is and were doing our best to follow the policies. Many people are like, ok, this is what it is, and im