Parties comparing this to a wartime situation. It will rush new resources onto the front lines of our Nations Health care fight, and it will inject trillions of dollars of cash into the economy as fast as possible to help American Workers, families, small businesses, and industries make it through this disruption and emerge on the other side ready to soar. In effect, this is a wartime level of investment into our nation. The men and women of the greatest country on earth are going to defeat this coronavirus and reclaim our future. And the senates going to make sure they have the ammunition they need to do it. Im thrilled that were finally going to deliver for the country that has been waiting for us to step up. From the very beginning, democrats have had two primary goals a martial plan for Public Health workers and hospitals on the front lines and putting workers first. The agreement, now, after these five days, reflects those democratic priorities, and we are proud that they are now
Continuing our coronavirus coverage. Governor cuomo just delivered his News Conference. He says the need of dire beds are in the tens of thousands. The conclusion is that the in rate of infection is going up. The apex is higher than we thought. The apex is sooner than we thought. Thats a bad combination of facts. So slow the spread, well still keep doing what we can. It is clear that we must dramatically increase the Hospital Capacity to meet that highest apex. New york is the epicenter. 16 states have issued stayathome order to force social distancing. Other states are also moving to close nonessential businesses. President trump is looking to open the economy sooner rather than later. Healthcare workers much needed supplies. Fema telling cnn after days of mixed signals that the government is implement the defense production acts to get more test kits and better distribute masks. Back to cuomo now, new york now has ten times as many cases as many states. Governor cuomo says the federa
States with stay at home orders. West virginia added to that list moments ago and many of us hunker down, the number of u. S. Coronavirus cases has gone up drastically. Now at 40,000 plus and if you just do the math at the right of your screen, at this point, more than one out of ten infections worldwide are american. More than 480 people died from the illness here in the u. S. And rising numbers add more to the urgency from hospitals that are running out of critical gear like masks, protective gear, ventilators, the mayor of new york, a city which now has 20,000 plus cases of coronavirus said supplies likely run out next week. So will congress act this afternoon . The negotiations for the stimulus bill stalled over the the weekend but the leader of Senate Democrats said hes hopeful a deal will be reached today and in the meantime, republicans are slamming them for the delay. We all know time is of the essence. Country is facing the twin crises in our Health Care System and in our econ
So at this hour the u. S. Has the highest reported number of coronavirus cases in the world. The w. H. O. Says its confirmed cases of the virus have more than 190 countries and territories. No one is known to be immune, and despite the efforts of doctors around the world, so far there is no vaccine. Johns Hopkins University has logged more than 532,000 cases worldwide with more than 24,000 deaths. In the u. S. , more than 82,000 americans are now infected surpassing even china. The u. S. On thursday reported 15,000 confirmed cases in just a single day. Yet the u. S. President seems eager to move on. People want to go back to work. Im hearing it loud and clear from everybody, and its going to happen pretty quickly. Af lot of progress has made but we have to go back to work. We may take sections of our country, we may take large sections of our country that arent so seriously affected. There are now almost four times the number of cases in the u. S. Than reported in china. The epicenter,
Slightly. It is still going on, it is just going up and slower rate. And we have a problem of the procurement process right now. Take a look. So you have 50 states competing to buy the same item. We all whine up bidding up each other and competing against each other where you now literally will have a company thatll call you up and say well, california just out bid you. It is like 50 other states bidding on ventilators and then fema gets involved and fema starts bidding. And now fema is bidding on top of the 50. Fema is driving up the price. What sense does this make . Tennessee is the latest state to issued stayathome order for residents. Three of every four americans now are under stayathome orders. Trump issued his 15day guidance on coronavirus. Today the white house is expected to reissue the guidance. The president wants to extend the guideline to the end of april. In new york, hospitals are ready to receive first patients to the u. S. Naval ship. Have patients begun to arrive . R