Good morning. Today we are going to provide an update on covid19 testing, personal protective equipment, Hospital Capacity, and a rundown on the approach we have taken to supporting our nursing home community. Worked towe have dramatically scale up our testing capacity. Thats because we believe testing is crucial not only to our current efforts to understand the spread of this disease but because it will play a Critical Role over the longterm term as we work through decisions around reopening parts of our community. We are continuing to make progress. As of yesterday we conducted a , total of 126,551 tests. Testsncludes a new 4500 conducted yesterday which were conducted at 28 sites across the mouth across the commonwealth. This makes massachusetts one of the leading states in the country with respect to testing. We are grateful to our colleagues in the medical community. These laboratories are a big part of massachusetts progress on this front. That includes quest diagnostics, the bro
Find people who may be infected. New questions of how to balance privacy and Public Health. And economic survival. Congress negotiates more help for Small Businesses struggling to stay afloat. How even some big retailers may go bankrupt. Thats not good. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Really, any part of the country is vulnerable. Even rural parts of the country. You see these superspread situations as we saw in south dakota. The debate over when the reopen of the country is getting political. Its no time to get cocky or arrogant. Nobody wants to reopen this country more than president donald trump. Theyve got cabin fever. They want to get back. They want their life back. Their life was taken away from them. Rallies to end stayathome orders were held over the weekend. Its the facts of life. We live and we die. So to shut down the economy because of that is its insane. A gunman in canada has killed at least 16 people in the deadliest such attack in the coun
Concern among San Franciscos hispanic and latino communities make up 70 of the covid19 cases, most in one place. Thank you for joining us. Most of the cases are in San Franciscos Mission district, the heart of the hispanic and latino communities. It just so happens they will be the start of a free program this weekend. And what will be done to help residents. Live on that, luz. Reporter based on reporting by the city at least 300 latinos tested positive for covid19. This community is highly impacted. Close to 1200 San Francisco ans tested positive for covid19 a large portion are coming from the Mission District zip code. This is the district, the heart of San Franciscos latino community. Citywide, 25 of positive covid19 cases are among latinos, although they make up only 15 of the San Francisco population. Reporter he has lived in the u. S. 20 plus years. He has a work permit and employs 10 people. Hes concerned about his community. Some people can get benefit we know, you know. This i
That we need more. We will work every avenue we can to get them. I signed three executive orders to help expand Health Care Capacity and ensure asset access. The first makes it easier for foreign educated doctors to be licensed to practice in the commonwealth. Specifically allows graduates of International Medical schools who have completed at least a twoyear postgraduate training to be licensed in massachusetts. The secondorder allows Nursing Student graduates, and those in the last semester of nursing programs to practice here in massachusetts if they are supervised by a licensed medical professional. These orders contribute to our effort to grow a Robust Community of frontline workers to support our Health Care Institutions as they significantly expand their capacity. We have already cut red tape to allow more Health Care Professionals to come over state lines, come back to work or start practicing straight out of school, and to continue to make sure that we find the resources we ne
Into our edd department of Employment Development department now at 9 more than 22 million americans have filed for unemployment as the president lays out guidelines to reopen the country for business. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, todays unemployment numbers are the largest and most dramatic rise in claims on record since the department started tracking back in 1967. The totals though come as no surprise since businesses will remain closed during this pandemic state agencies are having to hire more workers to help overwhelmed the state labor departments some states are expected to run low on money for state Unemployment Benefits as part of the federal Economic Relief package Congress Expanded Unemployment Benefits to include an extra 600 a week the size was given out by the state in california 2. 7 Million People across the state filed for Unemployment Benefits. As kron fours 10 per second tells us many are still waiting for money and some can even get through to the Em