One nursing home in san antonio says they have 66 infected by the virus. United airlines reduces flights by 60 . As compared to the Great Depression of 1929. This is a prime time addition of washington journal. We will focus on one aspect of covid19. Its impact on education for teachers for students for parents through preschool through college. If you are a professor or college administrator. 2027488000. For all others 2024788002. Send us a tweet at cspan w. J. Or join us on facebook at facebook. Com. On facebook at facebook. Com. Good friday evening. We thought it would be important to talk about the impact on education. But first we want to begin with the numbers. Courtesy of John Hopkins University which has been keeping track of the vie us are. We are now at 1. 1 million cases across the world. Here in the United States quickly approaching 275,000 cases. And now with more than 7,000 confirmed deaths in our country. His is the headline from the wall street journal as u. S. Employer
News writer thomas frank discusses how clean and the army corps of engineers are responding. At 9 50, representative danny davis of illinois on the pandemic in the state. Host good morning, this is washington journal for april 3. We are showing you footage from d. C. Terryton , Cherry Blossom festival last year. We want to know how you are responding to the covid19 outbreak, particularly in positive ways. Maybe there is a search of volunteerism in your community, or assisting others who are desperate and needy during this time. Tell us your story on two lines this morning. 202 7488000 for the eastern and central time zones, and 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific time zones. If you want to tweet us, it is 202 7488003. Make sure you put your name, city, and state if you text on that line. You can tweet us at cspanwj and post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Even in these dire times, there are several positive stories in the papers across the United States. Just a couple
Basically they travel in conduct business, and cap allowed. Gavel out. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. April 3, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable john p. Sarbanes to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of mercy, thank you for giving us another day. Bless the members of the peoples house. Give comfort to your people, o lord, as the numbers of infection and sadly death continue to rise. Protect all our skilled and Trained Medical professionals from disease and all evil as they strive to extend your healing power in the lives of so many. Give us patience as we adjust to a new world and a new way of proceeding and send us your holy spirit to comfort and guide us along our way
Keeping people from getting sick. Its critical, ask ourselves if we really need to leave our house. If we dont really truly need to leave, you shouldnt. Some trips are unavoidable. We need to go to the Grocery Store to get food or get to pharmacy to pick up medication and get supplies for to the care for our pets. Wearing masks will cut down the possibility that we might be infecting and innocent bystander. Those folkses are keeping us alive by getting us the supplies we need. We owe it to them to do everything we can to keep them safe. We need to do our part to keep healthcare workers safe. Im asking everyone to reserve n might have and paper masks for these vital workers. Instead, use a cloth or homemade masks. There are many other options across the internet on how to make your own masks. Or how to acquire one from a Community Member who is making them. Universal masking is expected to be recommended by the cdc shortly. In pennsylvania we want to be ahead of the nation slowing the s
Everyone yesterday we launched an alert system that will provide timely updates for covid19 and other critical kindness other guidance from the governors office. Text lacovidease to 67283. Already one heard thousand people across00 the state have signed up for alert. Additional information is available at coronavirus. L. A. Gov. This point i will ask the doctor to come up and explain more about the chart that was up there with the modeling because i know some of you were wanting more information about our modeling. Thank you, governor. Said, since the earliest cases in the state we have been working at the the academic side and with health items and insurers to build a model that would help us understand what to expect and how to reject what covid19 would mean for the state when it comes to our most Important Health resources that need to be there for those most severely affected by covid19. That is hospital beds and ventilators. You have been hearing us talk a lot about those. The gov