How her district has been hit by the coronavirus, what needs to be done as far as Economic Relief and what congress will do, and the 2020 election. Events thatrtual politico is hosting in the coming weeks, journalists from across the newsroom. If you have any questions for representative ocasiocortez, you can tweet them and we will try to get to them at the end of our conversation. Before she joins us in a few minutes, lets set the stage for where we are today. And number of weeks into the corona pandemic. You are in your house, i am in my, it is different from a lot of the live events we have done. Made we can break it down in terms of what is happening at the white house and on capitol hill. And this effort to try to figure out when the u. S. Can reopen for business. Jake welcome to my living room or my office. Veryportant important things to think about. The white house in the midst of rolling out a counsel with which the president will decide by what mechanism and went to open the
Of several coming in the coming weeks across the newsroom. We would love to answer your questions, so please tweet us questions using the askedpolitico, and we will try to get to them throughout the cover station. Anna lets get started. Chairman, thanks for joining us. We are all super focus on the coronavirus pandemic. We are coming, each of us, from our own respective homes. How do you grady federal response so far . Mr. Perez well, the response of this administration has been one of gross incompetence. It is an utter failure of leadership. This president knew come around the first of the year, that this was a pandemic in the making, and because he is always so concerned about himself, and he wants to be the center of attention, he exhorted the advice of seasoned professionals, like dr. Fauci and so many others, and those eight weeks that were lost during this period of time were eight precious weeks that cost lives. Preparedness,of preparedness on getting ppe, this is personal for m
Today is 51 days since the first case in new york, for perspective, so we know where we are. 92 days since the first case came to the United States of america. It was in seattle and in california. The hospitalization numbers for today. A take down yesterday, but a slight tick statistically irrelevant. Is, are wen for us passed the apex . Daysve had a number of that have seen a reduction in reductions across the board. Hospital say anecdotally they have less patience under which again,ms, perspective, the Emergency Rooms were way over capacity. It was chaotic. It was hellish. And the Emergency Rooms are still at or over capacity, but it is better than it was. The total change in hospitalizations has been going down. The threeday average of hospitalizations is going down. The number of integrations is down again. Not down ast news, much as yesterday, but down. The number of new people coming diagnosisr with covid is again, just about flat with yesterday. This was reporting over a weekend
I am jake sherman. I am joined by my colleague anna palmer to post a virtual aoc. Ook with she will talk to us about how by thetrict has been hit coronavirus and what congress is going to do in the coming weeks and months. Todays briefings are among the political events politico is hosting across the newsroom. , youu have any questions can tweak them with the atpolitico. Lets just set the stage for where we are today several weeks into this pandemic. This is different from a lot of the live events we have done. Lets break it down from what is happening at the white house and this overarching effort on figuring out when the u. S. Can reopen for business. Catch us up to speed. Room or my office. Veryportant important things to think about. The white house in the midst of rolling out a counsel with which the president will decide by what mechanism and went to open the economy and his estimation economy, which wasnt a good position before the coronavirus, and the president wants to get it
This event. This is an hour and 10 minutes. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us here today. This is a very different for meh to a press event and, i think, for most everybody that is going to participate this morning, but we are eager out. Y this [indiscernible] please forgive us. We will keep you on mute during the presentation. [indiscernible] as we go and we will hold the questions to the end. [indiscernible] if you have any questions, please just send her a note and she will call on you during the questionandanswer session. Cannotare audio only and access our chat, please hold to the end and we will do a final call for questions at that time. As you know, our country and the world are grappling with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. I sincerely hope that you and your loved ones are safe and , that youetting by are practicing social distancing and taking necessary precautions. We do appreciate you taking time for us today to do this event. Im in a rural town in Monroe County i