["Governors in charge" news] 1. Louisiana Gov. Edwards warns his state

By artappraiser on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 4:44pm |

Starting a new thread; first one was here.

WATCH: Louisiana Gov. Edwards says if coronavirus case curve isn’t flattened, New Orleans will exhaust ventilator capacity by April 2 and bedspace by April 7:

”This isn’t conjecture. This isn’t some flimsy theory. This isn’t some scare tactic. This is what’s going to happen.” pic.twitter.com/1kVvEmzihq
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 26, 2020

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https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1243266334143758338

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The state of NJ's official Twitter account has a notorious sense of humor. Yesterday:

howdy. i'm the sheriff of STOP BUYING ALL THE TOILET PAPER

— New Jersey (@NJGov) March 25, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 6:51pm

Related part of thread by Former Medicare, Medicaid, ACA head for Obama, how governors can deal with the "cranks". that "people need to see a path out and there is one":

I sent a letter to all 50 governors today outlining the path in 3 phases. See below.

Later in the letter I invited 3 states the opportunity to become pilot states 4 distributing digital thermometers across the state 2 start to measure more precisely how & where the virus was.22/ pic.twitter.com/Fmbx7Wl3Md
— Andy Slavitt @ (@ASlavitt) March 26, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 7:28pm

New York's #COVID19 situation is bad.

New Orleans is about to be worse. NoLA is experiencing the fastest case growth in the world at the moment. https://t.co/XqURe1RPx9
— Reid Wilson (@PoliticsReid) March 26, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 8:21pm

Inslee clashes with Trump over his leadership on coronavirus aid: ‘We need a Tom Brady’

After President Trump told governors that his administration was ready to be the “backup” for states in crisis, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) spoke up and said to the president, “We don’t need a backup. We need a Tom Brady,” a reference to the Super Bowl-winning quarterback.

By Robert Costa, Laura Vozzella and Josh Dawsey @ WashingtonPost.com, March 26

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 3:35am

New York is doing more tests, now up to 18,650 tests per day.

25% of all tests in the country have been done in New York.

We need to find the positives to help stop the spread.
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) March 26, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 3:38am

["Governors in charge" news] 1. Louisiana Gov. Edwards warns his state

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