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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. ....
Implications from Public Health and opening things up as a study from china that was published in nature a few days ago, that studied 100 people, and looked at the virus over time, both before they became symptomatic, and then afterward, and they quantify the amount of the virus , and the most important implication of that study was that about 40 of the transmission that they think occurred in that group happened before people developed symptoms. And that is what we are calling now the presymptomatic phase. We used to call it the asymptomatic phase, but i did not think but i dont think it emphasized enough that people could develop symptoms. If 40 of the transmission is occurring in the presymptomatic phase, then you have to think differently as we have been forced to do about how to prevent transmissions of vulnerable people. Host what does that mean . More importance of testing everyone in the population . We used to focus more o ....
And appreciate the great assistance from the governors and the people within the states. The relationships have been really good. I spoke with Governor Cuomo and were are working very hard to get additional things to new york as quickly as possible. As you know, we took care of the hospital including personnel. 2500 beds that we built just recently at javits including personnel and we opened it up to covid and it is something that we also did in louisiana and we are doing it in dallas. We have a lot of not only hospitals being built but now we are manning the hospitals because states in many cases are unable to get additional people to work. It is just an incredible situation. There has never been anything like this. One of the most important issues that linked this pandemic is coordinating the delivery of crucial supplies throughout the nation based on the most Accurate In ....
A 2nd wave of infections. I will explore the idea of socalled immunity passports for people who for cover even though questions to remain about resistance. Began in europe are coronavirus numbers are giving some calls for hope spanish Officials Say another 674 people have died there that is an awful number but it is the 3rd day in a row that the death toll has fallen down 135. 00 from the previous day the infection rate is also slowing the u. K. Has announced another 621. 00 deaths which like spain is fewer than the day before warmer weather though is drawing people out of their homes and in the u. S. New york states had almost 600. 00 further deaths taking the total to about 42000. 00 that is partly 40 percent of the u. S. Is death toll. We have 2 correspondents this half hour mike hanna in washington they say. London lets go to mary have now. Yes thats right michelle so we had from the u. K. Government today in that briefing anot ....
Advisory panel of experts to ask for their opinions about expanding the zone. Translator infection has been spreading from urban to rural areas due partly to people moving. We need we need to urgently take measures to minimize the movement of people during the long holiday period from late april to early may. f< governments plan. Officials plan to hold a Task Force Meeting later on thursday to officially expand the declaration. It would allow governors across japan to take various measures to fight the virus. More than 9,000 people have teststed positive in the countr. That does not include 712 cases linked to the diamond princess cruise ship, which was quarantined in yokohama in february. More than 190 people have died, including the 13 from the ship. Tokyo has reported more than a quarter of all confirmed infections in japan. Officials announced 149 new cases on thursday. Prime minister abe shinzo is proposing more relief to ....