And john delaney for his support and also especially thank you for the distinguished leaders joining today in our alumni board members. Its my pleasure to introduce the people who will be leaving this incredible conversation. Sylvia Mathews Burwell is president of American University and the first woman to lead the institution. She previously served as the 22nd secretary of the u. S. Department of health and Human Services and also served as the director ofth the office of management and budget and shes also served as the president of Global Development program and chief operating officer at the bill and Melinda Gates foundation and president of the walmartrt foundation. Shshes joined today by gary con and chief economic adviser to president trump, the former president and chief operating officer Goldman Sachs and an alumni of the american i welcome you both. Im sure you are ready to start the conversation. Iem. Thank you for the introduction and leadership at this fine institute. Than
Faith to discussions and play a constructive role for bipartisan solution to the challenges we face because of an unprecedented and historic pandemic. President , to date americans lost nearly 150,000 people who have died with diseases related to the coronavirus. We are quickly approaching 5 million cases of infection in the United States of america. Consider this for a moment for the United States has five or so the worlds population, we have almost 25 of all the covid infections in the world. How did we reach this point that we have such a rampant rate of infection . I was considered the most developed nation on earth. Part is the problem is the president who peddles worthless medical advice. Impart a is Republican Senate has been unwilling to face the economic hardships would have been created by this pandemic in our economy. It was ten and a half weeks ago the house of representatives under democratic control past the heroes act. Ten and a half weeks ago they knew this day was comi
Major breakthrough. Good evening. Im julie haener working from home tonight. Im a frank somerville. Researchers at Oxford University have been testing the drug and they say that if the steroid had been used from the beginning of the pandemic, probably thousands of lives could have been saved. 10 months is a smith has talked with medical experts today and the drug is widely available and not that expensive. Yes, frank in fact i did speak to a stanford doctor on the front lines of the pandemic who is cautiously optimistic but says she would like to see the data behind todays findings before putting the steroid to use. At Stanford University doctors in the intensive care unit treating the sickest covid19 patients are taking a closer look at the drug dexamethasone to help improve patients chances of survival. Dr. Leandra rogers specializes in pulmonary and critical care. One of the most important things about the study is it seems to help very sick patients with covid19. Reporter on tuesda
The coast, cities, 56, not that bad with your northwind at travis, vacaville, probably going to be around 92 to 94 degrees. Vacaville is plus 6. Sfo, plus 5. It will be warmer, 80s and 90s in the inland areas, 70s and 80s around the bay area. 70s, 80s to some low 90s. All right. Lets head over to sal now. Would you like to begin, my friend . Well, lets start at the bridge, steve. We can see that the bay bridge traffic is going to be slow, this morning, as it normally is. You can see traffic is moving along, slowly. And this has become a normal thing. We have heard there is more traffic out there, and that certainly is the case, but we have not reached the pandemic levels. So even though this bridge is crowded, you can see that traffic on interstate 880 has not slowed down. I have not seen the slowdown i normally see, lets say before all this happened. We would start seeing slow traffic on the right, heading north. We have not seen stop and go traffic. Send me trail, san mateo traffic i
Goes by, we are getting better. You to keepst ask everybody in your thoughts and your prayers and lets just hope and pray that we will not get too many bumps in the road before we get to the vaccine, the drug that will help us. To tell you we have lost our 68th West Virginia. And 86yearold female from canal county. I just go through it over and over and over. It is a terrib thing to have to do. I want to be really respectable to the people we have lost. I do not want them or their theyies to ever think that were a statistic. We are deeply indebted to all the knowledge and the beauty they gave us through their lives. We absolutely want all of you to think about then and their loved ones and keep them in your thoughts and your prayers. Please do so. You that wead to four withing in week an executive order today that im signing that will allow these businesses to reopen, and so list the 14 day quarantine order for outofstate travelers. Effect atwill go into midnight on thursday, may 21. N