Mission U.S.A. Strong

WATCH THE BRIEFING HERE

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy holds a briefing on coronavirus.

visit covid19.nj.gov

STARTED NOTES @ 15 minutes in 

you will not be tested unless you meet their requirements (he read)

test only those exhibiting symptoms

6/10 do not have it so far

Mercer County  - only drive up site in Quaker Mall 

Weekdays 8-4pm - your DR must send notification to the site that you meet requirements AND are symptomatic (contact your PCP if you live in that county and are symptomatic)

One Stop Portal - scroll to COVID graphic or go to to their site/testing. HERE

206k new unemployment claims files

totals 362k in the last two weeks

please have patience - your claim will be taken care of - you will not lose one penny of your benefits

WE ALSO have 1000s of opportunities for employment:
GO TO jobs.covid19.nj.gov 

44k job offers on that website yesterday

thankful for employers putting them there

HOME EDUCATION HELP:

NJTV Learning...

WATCH VIDEO HERE

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo holds a press briefing.

Opening Graphics:

Westchester and Nassau by % in a troubling number. Those numbers are concerning. We are watching those.

It is now in EVERY county in New York. It is false comfort to say we are a rural community. You have counties in New York state where you have more cows than people. 

He believes it will march across the nation like this.

The patients discharged is up 1292 - that's good news. The number of people going into the hospital is going up and people coming out is going up.

The number of deaths  = 2373

up from 1941

Looking for a trend line - still basically up:

 you can start to see a plateauing in the number of intubations but an optimistic view

Discharged number went way up - people going in and people going out.

The challenge is still the APEX.

Everyone is basically in the same battle  - the apex is the highest rate of infection - can you handle that number - can...

We are at a war.

Every citizen, business, and community is being asked to make changes how we live, work, and act each and every day.

Wouldn't be suprised to see this going long into the future, even when the virus is gone, defeated.

Some of what we are learning now will live on into the future (flu) - shaking hands, washing hands, standing a part.

This campaign extended until April 30th.

Dr Burke will explain why they made that decision.

Dr. Fauci will explain why it is essential for American people to follow the guidelines for the next 30 days.... it's a matter of life and death. 

We are the greatest economy in the world, we had the best unemployment numbers we've ever had by far - then we had to close it up.

Americans - have a great pride going on right now.

Announcements:
Treasury Dept & Small Biz Admin - paycheck protection program (2 Trillion Relief Bill)

350 in loans - soon available thru lending partners - forgiven as long as biz still pay their workers - sole...

WATCH HERE

 In Rose Garden

Friday, FDA authorized Abbott Labs new COVID 19 test  

FDA approved in 4 weeks (not 10 months as normal)

New lab test available - results in 5 minutes

Whole new ball game.

They will deliver 50k tests each day starting this week. 

National Guard 

Built 2,900 beds - Javits Center - did in less than 4 days

now moving to other locations

LA, NJ, and many others

worked around the clock

Gov Cuomo expressed his thanks.

deployment of rapid testing will accelerate our ability to defeat the virus...

to help them act quickly to shut it down

give cities and states information

hydroxy -chloroquine -  being tested on 1100 patients in NY  + Z Pack - Zythromycin

started 2 days ago - we'll see what happens

Thank you Stephen Hahn -? got approval for it fast - we'll see how it works

also FDA convolescent plasma - as treatment for seriously ill patients - taking blood from patients who have already recovered from...

We're coming out of this thing stronger than we went into it.

The enemy thought they could scare us -

all they did was wake us up, 

empower us, 

and unite us.

We are the UNITED States of America.

We are a Christian nation!

Just like physical science - what goes up, must come down.

An object in motion meets an equal opposite force and creates some motion.

But we don't just live in this physical world, 

we live in the Kingdom of God.

We won't just come back, 

we'll come back stronger!

We'll work harder,

 and smarter!

We'll share and give more to each other than ever before.

We'll bless those who are cursing us and

hopefully, win some more to our side; 

to our way of doing things!

There IS a way.

There IS a truth.

And there IS a light - 

and He offers life NOT death and destruction!

He even offers life DESPITE death and destruction.

Rise up Church of God!

Rise up Church of Christ!

Rise up out of any despair.

Cast off all...

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

He is giving a great report on how they are taking matters into their own hands as a state and getting things done. 

California governor Gavin Newsom hosts a press conference at the bloom energy ventilator refurbishing site in Sunnyvale, CA.

3/28/20

Older ventilators are being located, gathered, and refurbished at a Bloom Energy facility that has been converted from an old storage site, to a clean refurbishing station.

Currently 514 old ventilators from department of public health, 170 from Strategic National Stockpile,  have been located and are now in the process of being completely refurbished and re-distributed across California.  4,252 others have been identified and they will be working on those soon.  10,000 is the goal.

This could be a model for other states to follow.  Bloom Energy also has a new facility in Delaware immulating this process.

As of 3/28/20… 100 deaths.  Across California 4,000 waiting to...

• California Governor Gavin Newsom 
• Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti 
• LA County public health officials

Los Angeles, CA.

 2:43 PM CST

(need to go back and note the first 53 minutes)

@53 minutes into video

COVID free area - all have been tested - very strict protocol to keep it that way

MERCY SHIP

will have 20k ICU beds through the May 20th modeling

Q:

A: Encouraging businesses to do the right thing

Shut down 98 park facilities - all along the coast to reduce the surge of individuals not practicing safe physical distancing last weekend (he said last year?)

Each city has different operations and strategies to enforce and notify citizens - LA leading on that

NEW SPEAKER

making sure that is the law and that is enforced

1. compliance - 
2. self-enforcement - neighborhood level
3. city employees - including officers to get adherence in a voluntary way ie. restaurant trying to stay open - police visit shut it down
4. more enforcement - they are prepared - to shut...

 NY Governor Cuomo holds coronavirus briefing 

Personal Note: I want to recommend every family have their older kids watch his building up of our National Guard. I felt like I was in a graduation speech. It was so encouraging and inspiring to watch him speak to our military with his pep talk, honoring them, and calling them to action. It is humbling to see what our National Guard is doing for the safety and wellbeing of us all on our own soil. (Start at 26:58 to see him start to thank and inspire the National Guard)

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE 

NOTES: 

Javits Center

Mar 3-March 25 increase in number of cases still going up

Steps/ Goals:

1. flatten the curve - no apex so the hospital capacity can keep up with it

2. increase hospital capacity so if it exceeds the numbers we can deal with it

barring non essential workers, social distancing, closing bars and restaurants

decision with benefit and burden / risk and reward

we are battling a deady virus - intrusion on daily...

I came in at @42 minutes into President Trump speaking

(If you are seeing this, I will try to come back and fill in the beginning notes if I can get time... still a mom and it's dinner time - LOL. Contact me to let me know you are counting on it - I may be more inclined to stay up to finish knowing it is making a difference.)

WATCH THE BRIEFING

NOTES: 

President Trump:

• using financial, scientific,  medical, military, pharmaceutical to halt this virus
• thank you Americans for practicing Social Distancing, maintaining good hygiene, following their guidelines
• Your commitment makes all the difference in the world.  Stay Home. Relax "for a while".
• They continue to gather info and accelerate testing. Doing record testing. 8 days here USA did more highly sophisticated test than South Korea did in 8 weeks.
• We will vanquish this virus. A lot of progress has been made.
• Today - sent a letter to American governors to update the data - social distancing - coordinated with public...

I am amazed at how many people are complaining and making comments that are uneducated and solely based on assumptions. (I see random comments on the sidebar of the Facebook video showing us Mitch McConnell's remarks.)  As his remarks are airing, I just finished posting my transcripted notes from the March 25th, 5 PM ET White House Task Force Briefing. 

I invite all Americans to either WATCH all of the Briefings the White House has held publically, or at least read the notes from the ones I have transcribed.

It will answer a lot of your questions and hopefully will help you see how hard our elected officials are working, and continue to work, for all of us. I encourage you to STOP spreading unfactual information or fear. We are educated people. We can do better for our country and our communities.

Senators Vote on the Coronavirus $2 Trillion Stimulus Bill - WATCH HERE

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's remarks after the vote  - WATCH HERE

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