Our state has been hardhit with over 3200 confirmed cases and the loss of 145 lives. Ive been listening and pushing for the federal government to step up and urgently pass a package that matches the scale of this crisis and provides immediate relief to so many of you that are struggling. Today the house of representatives past a 2 trillion coronavirus package. The president is immediately signing it into law. The bill is far from perfect, but it is delivering critically need a two people in our state and across the country. First, the largest expansion in decades of o Unemployment Benefits. We increased benefits so that you qualify for 100 of your paycheck and we expanded Unemployment Insurance for those that might not typically qualify. There is a direct cash payment as well of 1200 for a majority of adults and additional 500 for every dependent child. Youru get immediately in pocket. We also put in 350 billion in emergency grants to devastated Small Businesses and nonprofits. Billion
Also, representative julia brownley, rick larsen, and hick johnson from georgia. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and im proud to represent washingtons seventh Congressional District in the u. S. House of representatives. I know what a hard time this has been for so many of you. Our state has been hardhit with over 3200 confirmed cases and the loss of 145 lives. Ive been listening and pushing for the federal government to step up and urgently pass a package that matches the scale of this crisis and provides immediate relief to so many of you that are struggling. Today the house of representatives past a 2 trillion coronavirus package. The president is immediately signing it into law. The bill is far from perfect, but it is delivering critically need a two people in our state and across the country. First, the largest expansion in decades of o Unemployment Benefits. We increased benefits so that you qualify for 100 of your paycheck and we expanded Unemployment Insurance for those that migh
Join us on washington journal primetime monday night, 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Illinois governor jb pritzker gave an update on how his state is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. This is about an hour. Good afternoon and thank you for joining todays public update. I am here with dr. Horace smith, dr. Tor and a doctor suzette mckinney, executive director of the Illinois Medical District and the operations lead for our alternate care facilities across chicago and the state, and bishop simon gordon,. I want to discuss the actions i our taken toward protecting more vulnerable populations, specifically focused on the black community, who have focused a disproportionate effect of covid19. For months, years, and even decades after we defeat this pandemic, we will surely look back and examine the biological and medical questions about this virus. Beyond that, we need to examine what americans learned about ourselves. The data accumulating over the last few weeks has shined a bright lig
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo held his daily Coronavirus Briefing from albany tuesday. He updated the total number of cases and tests performed, and the coordination of resources. He also talked about his brother, cnn anchor, chris cuomo, testing positive for the virus. This is just over an hour. Of people tested overnight, 18,000 people, more than any state in the country, and we are proud of that. The total number of people population of0, 19 million will not give you a random sample. It has been helping us track down positive cases. Cases,ber of positive 9208. Total cases, 75,000. You see the predominance in new york city and westchester, then thenu, then suffered suffolk. It spreads out from density. The march of coronavirus across the state continues. Numbers, 75,000 tested positive, 10,000 in our patients. 2700 icu the good news, 4900, almost 5000 people discharged is up 771. People come in, get treated and go home. New york is at 75,000 cases. Is 16,000. Te california is at 700
We are here to make a very exciting announcement about a Clinical Trial we are eager to partner with the state on, to get up and running effective today to help with the covid19 spread. I think what you will hear and is a great sign that health care is alive and well in the dakotas. I want to thank the governor for her support, the secretary for inrything that she has done getting us the drugs necessary to pursue the trials you will fromabout today, and there, i will introduce the governor to make a couple of comments. About thee will talk trial specifically. Good morning, everyone. We are continuing every single of along across the state south dakota to allow facts and science to drive our decisionmaking. Fortunately, thanks to all of the people who live in this state, we are doing well. The spread has slowed down. Had we taken no action whatsoever, the original modeling had us peeking in the middle of april. What we have been able to do by putting in mitigation efforts, limiting grou