I can imagine. Good afternoon, everybody. Not exactly the easter weekend that irving berlin, fred astaire, and judy garland envisioned an Easter Parade but here we are. I am honored to be joined to my right with the woman who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the department of health. To her right is the state epidemiologist. Thank you for being with us. And another guy who does not need any introduction, the guy to my left, colonel pat callahan. I want to acknowledge jared maples, the director of Homeland Security and preparedness. Deputy counsel pamelas with us as well as other colleagues. Thank you for joining us. Permission and blessing some flying police colors today. I want to give the chief and his men and women a big shout out for all of the great work they do. I promise you, i still loyal to am the state police. I will find my state police car later again. Lets get to the numbers as we have been doing upfront of late. Since we met yesterday, we have been notified noti
Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for your patience. Both in allowing us to move this to 3 00 today due to the white house vtc, which we will come back to but a lot of good content, it ran a little bit long. We apologize for the fact. We are a little bit behind. Im joined by the woman on my right, the commissioner of the department of health. To her right, another guy in need of no introduction, dr. Ed. The guy to my left who doesnt need an introduction, pat callahan. Joined by jared maples, director of the department of Homeland Security preparedness and soon by chief council, matt plotkin. Lets begin with our daily update on the numbers and charts. May these never be just numbers and charts. These are real lives were talking about. First, today, we are announcing an additional 347 positive test results, pushing ur state total to 102,196. My monitor is out. If someone could get it plugged in, that would be great. Even as we cross 100,000, we must keep in mind there are tens of thou
Dr. Box, the latest numbers on the ground, but we will also be joined very kindly, impeccable timing from the senator of indiana. Before we get to the senator and a bill signed into law by the president , can you give us an update . Commissioner box today we reported 656 new cases of covid19 and unfortunately an additional 35 deaths in indiana. 600 56 new cases of covid19 and unfortunately an additional 35 deaths in indiana. These numbers bring to 13,680 the number of hoosiers known to have covid19. A total of 741 hoosiers have died, 1 of all individuals tested in our state and 5. 4 percent of our confirmed, positive cases. Include over 3500 new tests. More than 75,000 hoosiers have been tested for covid19. Today we expect to add to our dashboard an additional 79 presumptive covid19 deaths that have been clinically diagnosed. This means that a physician listed covid19 as a contributing cause of death for a patient, but no covid19 positive test was documented on that individual. The cli
Who will be observing good friday at noon. Honored to be joined i the woman on my right, who needs no introduction. A guy familiar to many of you there, the commutable Communicable Disease specialist. To my far, state police superintendent, pat callahan. To my immediate left, and great leader, department of corrections, commissioner marcus hicks. We are going earlier today than we usually do. We have the overnight numbers. Im not sure, judy will tell us how deeply we can dig into the numbers. We have at least the top line numbers and we will go from there. Let me get into that immediately. Since yesterdays briefing we have been notified that we have 3627 more residents who have received positive test results. That puts our statewide total at 54,588. 7 overnight and our statewide total at 54, 588. To our online dashboard that is accessible d19. Nj. Gov. I as of 10 00 p. M. Last night we residents reported hospitalized of which 679 were in critical or intensive care. 63 ventilators were
And cerullo and all of the guys over here, hats off to the firefighters up and down the state who are as good as it gets. We salute you and thank you for everything you are doing. Im joined by the woman who needs no introduction, judy. This is our third engagement today. Two on the phone and one in person. The department of Health Communicable disease medical director and the guy familiar to you all, great to have you. Needse guy to my left who no introduction, superintendent pathe police, colonel callahan. Also jared maples. Welcome. Lets start with the numbers. I think we will go briskly today. We are announcing an additional 3457 positive test results for a 1523. Statewide of if we look at the curve of new covid19 cases, these are continuedests, we see flattening. We cannot ease up. Lets leave this appear and remind everybody lets leave this up here. A lot of folks have battled and won. That is an important point to make. The curve is flattening. Of a lotn the face more testing. Jud