Name: 農村合作伙伴和社區關於2019年冠狀病毒病（COVID-19）應對的最新情況。 (Update for Rural Partners and Communities on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Response)
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>> Good afternoon and thank you for joining us today.

My name is Diane Hall and I'm a senior scientist in the

CDC director's policy and strategy office.

I also serve as CDC's point of contact and coordinator

As part of our work on this response we have been in

regular communication with federal partners such as the

federal office of rural health policy, USDA's national

institute of food and agriculture, and the VA office of

rural health as well as nongovernmental partners as

well as the world health information in the world

We have had tremendous interest in this briefing and we

have received many questions ahead of time.

Please note if the question is not within the CDC

purview we have shared it with the relevant agency and

Also note that CMS launched a website on Medicaid gov

which includes a new checklist to make it easier for

states to receive federal waivers and implement

If you search Medicaid COVID-19 you should be able to

If you have additional questions you may continue to

I would like to think Scott Miller in my CBC colleagues

working on the coronavirus response reporting is

I would also like to thank CDC's Captain Margo Rick and

the federal office of rural health policy and their

assistants for curating questions and assisting with

And thank you to our partners to help disseminate the

And I would like to welcome Health and Human Services

Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan, hopefully he is on the

Okay, it sounds like he is not on the line yet.

Jay Butler it was the Deputy Director of infectious

diseases here at CDC and then maybe when the deputy

>> All right, thank you Diane, and I will certainly

yield to the deputy secretary Hargan if needed.

So good afternoon to those of you in the East, good

morning to fellow Westerners, and thank you for taking

We are in the midst of a global pandemic of a disease,

COVID-19, caused by a newly recognized virus.

And all evidence is this is a virus that has only

recently achieved the ability to infect humans.

Coronavirus in general exist in nature, particularly in

bats, and certain coronaviruses adapt to infect people.

As some of you are aware if you are in poultry science

or you manage swine, influenza behaves somewhat like

While the epidemic first evolved out of China, it has

spread globally now and some of the real global

hotspots now are in Europe and in the Americas.

All around the world nearly 300,000 cases have been

confirmed and we are sure that many more cases than

Unfortunately nearly 13,000 people have lost their

It's important to recognize that the experience of

people around the world suggest that people who risk

complication send death are those who are advanced in

age as well as those with chronic heart lung kidney

However, I want to stress that younger people also may

have more severe disease and while the overall

mortality may be very low among younger people, the

Here in the United States there have been over 33,000

cases and there have been cases reported from all 50

While a significant proportion right now are from New

York City or from New York State, I want to stress that

this is indeed a pandemic that has spread across the

country and across Canada as well, so really all of

I understand that Deputy Secretary Hargan is on so I am

Hardin, would you like to say a few words?

>> Well, I apologize for the dead air and if the deputy

secretary is able to join we will let you know and

Nationally here in the United States that have also

been deaths as well as severe illnesses, over 390

A significant proportion of those have been residents

of long-term care facilities which I think again

highlights the fact that those who are at greatest risk

are those who are older and have underlying conditions.

The long-term care facility outbreaks have now been

We do expect to see a continued increase in the number

of cases both as there is increased transmission and

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