Coronavirus in very creative ways. In texas, earlier this spring, a local court there held jury selection over zoom. The court posted the video to youtube. It worked out pretty well with the judge helping some of the older people with the technology. Thank youall for participating in your jury service remotely. This is the first time this is happening in texas and maybe the country as far as we know. So you can get judge the on zoom. You can get jurors on zoom. You can get lawyers on zoom, but what you cant get are law students. The American Bar Association restricts law schools from teaching virtually and that has led students all over the nation to give up on law school at least for now. Marin is a pretty good window or has one into people are studying for law school. His company test max makes a study app and hes talked to some of those students so you did a poll of these students, and you found about a third of them were thinking about quitting. Yeah, thats correct. So we did a sur
Everyone and thank you for joining us today. I want to acknowledge that we typically have simultaneous spanish interpretation for us during our press conferences. We were not able to secure services this morning but we will provide translation online. Allen,e with pat director of the Oregon Health authority and our state epidemiologist. I will keep my remarks brief this morning. When we began reopening nearly a month ago, i was clear that covid19 cases, our count would rise. Unfortunate, we are seeing that happen in several parts of the state, in rural and urban oregon. As i said before, reopening comes with real risk, and thats why we are carefully monitoring the ability of the Public Health system to respond to covid19 cases without becoming overwhelmed. The noticeable increase in covid19 infections in oregon the past week is certainly cause for concern. To slow the transmission of the virus, i am putting all pending county reopening applications on hold for seven days. This is essen
March 16th 2020. The world holds its breath. The cove a 19 corona virus has turned peoples lives upside do. Matter where they live. What images will be remembered from this time. All over the world people are keeping a record using their mobile phone cameras to create a collective diary of the demick. Own on. Am and my name is now. Im announcing. Im working a new i. C. U. Today for many and we were warned that it would be like being a nurse in a room we dont even have the essentials behind me is the intensive care unit it was set up at the last minute because we get a lot of emergency cases that need ventilators but i thought it. Was you know it was a good order way using ventilators that are really only used in the operating room they cant do everything is seriously ill patient needs but at the moment we dont have anything else that. Has a mark or stroke of ours you have to wear to mosques one on top of the other because we have to wear the if if peace 3 protective mask 3 shifts in a
And hundreds of americans protest against the law violating basic rights that is facebook adds fuel to the bar removing one of the biggest anti lockdown communities in line with government policy. David thanks for joining us this is r. T. International. Well lets begin with our quick daily check on the latest global coronavirus figures total infections now stand at above 4600000. 00. Or approaching 310000 or the number of those whove recovered tops 1700000. Moscow has started free Antibody Testing for the corona virus for all residents of the russian capital the results are expected to help the government decide whether to ease the existing restrictions or to extend them the number of new cases reported in russia on saturday stands at the moment at 9200 that is the lows for several weeks though experts say that its too early to say that the situation is improving since the number tends to go up and down from day to day will be 63000. 00 people have recovered in total but 2537. 00 have
Policies. Also the Us Press Corps no want to trust the House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff ever again after it was revealed that he lied about the trump russia collusion investigation. By the great to have you with us this international. Lets begin it with daily check on the latest global coronavirus figures total infections now stand at about 4600000. 00 fatalities are approaching 310000 the number of those whove recovered tops 1700000. U. S. Health care system has been inundated during the pandemic not just with patients but also criticism of the way that it struggled with the crisis now the former head of a key lab working on a vaccine as would congress if the government doesnt make rapid changes things will only get worse. Our window of opportunity is closing if we fail to improve our response now based on science i fear the pandemic will get worse and be prolonged there will be likely a resurgence of covert 19 this fall and we greatly compound it by the challenges of