Resume when the stayathome order expires. Other topics included guidelines for Meat Processing facilities in the state. Gov. Northam good afternoon and thank you for joining us today. Today, we have updates on our meet processing facilities and allowing our hospitals and outpatient providers to resume nonemergency procedures, allowing our dentists to start seeing nonemergency patients, and allowing veterinarians to see nonemergency pets and their patients. Yesterday, President Trump evoked the defense production act to require Meat Processing facilities to stay open to maintain our food supply chain. Last weekend, i joined the governors of maryland and delaware in sending a letter to President Trump, asking for federal help in coordinating our approach to rising numbers of cases in our poultry facilities. Trump, asking for federal help in coordinating our approach to rising numbers of cases in our poultry facilities. Deployings responded, teams to each of our three states to work with
Join the conversation tonight at 8 00 p. M. Et on cspan. Next, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam briefs reporters on his states response to the coronavirus. He announced that elective surgeries and dental procedures can resume when the public order expires tomorrow at midnight. Gov. Northam good afternoon and thank you for joining us today. Today we have updates on our meet processing facilities and allowing our hospitals and outpatient providers to resume nonemergency procedures, allowing our dentists to start seeing nonemergency patients, and allowing veterinarians to see nonemergency pets and their patients. Yesterday, President Trump evoked the defense production act to require meet processing facilities to stay open to maintain our food supply chain. The weekend, i joined governors of maryland and delaware in sending a letter to President Trump, asking for federal help in coordinating our approach to rising numbers of cases in our poultry facilities. Deployings responded, teams to e
It. The president of the united benefits and that federal stimulus. States calls the shots. Reporter President Trump state workers processed a says he has the right to decide when to reopen business in every quarter and a half million claims sunday. Those include unemployment state. When somebody is the benefits plus a 600 a week president of the United States, the authority is total, and thats the way its got to be. Boost through the federal total . Your authority is total . C. A. R. E. S. Act. Total. The feds say you can expect its total. Stimulus payments as early as and the governors know that. Wednesday. They will cooperate perfectly. Thats 1,200 for those earning watch. Reporter right now theyre up to 75,000 a year plus 500 not. Seven northeast governors and three on the west coast have per child. Partnered to come up with their the irs is also set up a new own plan on how and when to ease social distancing. California is putting together a bottomup plan, a site to check on payme
Keep coordination and healthcare flowing after a disaster, can happen between the government and the private sector. The stateadvised department during the ebola crisis. What are the parallels from back in 2014, 2015 . Guest yes, i think one of the most important lessons from the Ebola Outbreak was the role of partnerships. A big part of the responsibility that our team had was to make sure that the u. S. State department was working with the who and working with the u. S. Agency on the coronation that needed to happen across government, with businesses, to make sure that the west african outbreak could be contained, and that whatever we could do to make sure that the logistics were able to flow could sustain, and i think that is a big part of what we see. Every disaster, every disease outbreak is a huge logistical effort, and so making sure that we have our best on working with fema and others, to be able to do that but also that whatever is necessary from the private sector, private
Pacific and mountain, 202 7488001. We have a line for medical professionals, we would love to hear from you. Its 202 7488002. We are also on twitter and facebook. We are taking your text messages. That number is 202 7488003. Tell us your first name and where you are texting from. We begin as we always do with a look at the sobering numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. More than 1. 2 million confirmed cases. The number ofs. Cases are approaching 330,000. 65,000 deaths around the country. Around the world, i should say. The u. S. Is leading the world in cases of coronavirus. That from Johns Hopkins university, which has been keeping track of this since the beginning in january. The president says a lot of death is coming. It will be the toughest week in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and he said this on saturday. He said this as the total number of coronavirus cases rose to over 300,000, with the number of deaths host at the Daily Briefing yesterday, deborah birx, o