April 3rd, 2022 • 2h 20m
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Adam curry Jhansi Devorah and
Sunday April 3 2022. This is
your award winning give on
nation media assassination
episode 1439. This is no agenda,
rewinding the
COVID clock and broadcasting
almost live from the heart of
the Texas hill country here in
FEMA Region number six in the
morning, everybody. I'm Adam
curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley
where it's my birthday week. I'm
Jhansi Dvorak.
My my voice is still cracking.
Long, long, long. COVID
continues long. COVID long COVID
It's hardly noticeable. Yeah,
it was better on Thursday. And I
just cracked. So here we are.
We're almost live. It's kind of
like we're really here. You of
course are in the Seychelles
wish. Have you ever been to
Seychelles?
No, but I've been told by a
couple of guys who do a lot of
traveling. They've been all over
the world. They say the
Seychelles is the best. Yeah,
I've never been unfortunate. I
don't know if it's true anymore.
This was like 20 years 20 plus
years ago wasn't the
Seychelles the one that was
going to tip over from climate
change.
It was one of the islands but I
don't think it was that that was
gonna say show I was gonna drown
national idiot. Yeah.
So we're taking now. I am hoping
that I got the timing of this
right. The reason for this break
is because we you and I haven't
had a break in a year.
Year and a half to almost two
years. I think it was two years
not away with Tina and I went
away. We had a break in 2020. Do
we have one in 2012? I can't
remember if we had one. No,
Bolden must have been I know we
didn't have one is 2020 You
can't remember when you last one
on vacation then it was a while
ago? Yeah. So I hoped I timed
this before the the the food
shortages and the financial
collapse. And I think we did
pretty well by timing it after
the Ukrainian war and COVID.
We've done pretty well.
We'll see if you can't get back.
We'll know the reason why.
But they're definitely gonna
kick that into high gear.
They're definitely COVID is
coming back. We have all the
evidence. They're going to do
something it's gonna be testing
gold dragon to get much
traction, they got to find
something else to do dig their
work. They can't bring it.
Democrats can't bring it back
because they're gonna they
already know they got troubles
for the midterms. Yeah, they
can't take a chance on pissing
off everybody. They would bring
it back maybe to get to a mail
in ballots so they can scam that
again. Right
now. They can't they can't drag
it out. We'll see. In the
meanwhile, the art for the last
episode 1438 Taunton, Neil, I
believe was clearly perfect
because you called the end of
the COVID pandemic, April 2022.
And here we are,
seems to be over perfect timing,
and the war should be over by
the time we get back.
Until then, what have you put
together for us for this
is a show of COVID clips only.
And I've got a couple hours
worth in it's like all the stuff
from the beginning with the
first clip when we first met
COVID first appeared on the
scene right through the goal two
or three weeks, so it has
flattened the curve. And I got
the boat coming out to bring in
the Mercy Ships. Oh,
I forgot about those. Yeah, the
hospital ships,
ships, they didn't send one
person to and they have
ventilators we need more
ventilator so we can kill more
people. And they there's just a
lot of good stuff and a lot of
has been forgotten but I think
this will bring back a few
memories
now as I was listening to the
next week. Next episode. So next
next ship next
I'm losing it the next episodes
clips, which will be the best of
end of show mixes it's really
incredible what the human brain
has had I'm sure you'd notice
this what the human brain has
had to endure in the past two
and a half years of bullshit
being injected directly through
our retinas into our brains.
Yeah, to good thing we're doing
this show I don't know where
we'd be I mean it's not
it's not just okay we had a
virus and then there was
problems. I mean, all the stuff
it's amazing to think and I
think people will realize this
when they listen to it how much
bull crap was thrown at your
brain and your amygdala non stop
Yeah, it's pretty nonstop that
was the problem I think either
way Ross remember the one good
thing was that out here because
of the way they structured the
shutdown stay at home laws. They
had this media exemption thing
which included podcasters so I'm
out and about but their traffic
down to nothing there's nobody
on the roads and driving around
beauty rate and this so these
clips are just the clips not us.
I'm sorry, the clips the this
specialist just the clips not
us.
Yeah, you The clips love it. And
please note there are no vaccine
clips in this batch because this
is from January 2020 to May
1 2020 It's just unbelievable.
Let's kick it off COVID Best of
ever go.
We will show you inside Georges
lugar laboratory which detects
and prevents the spread of
dangerous diseases. But pro
Kremlin media claim it spreads
disease experimenting on humans
with cancer, the Zika virus
killer mosquitoes and plagues of
stinkbugs. I asked the
laboratories director whether
there was any truth to these
narratives,
but we are not making Zika virus
in this operator, the killer
mosquito about the laboratory is
the the level of the laboratory
is so high that we can diagnose
here the Zika Ebola creamier
Congo and many many infectious
diseases. No killer blocky
making this virus is here.
No Marmorated Stink Bug coming
from the lluvia laboratory but
the Marmorated Stink Bug. I'm
not a scientist. But what I have
been seeing here suggests that
this laboratory is exactly what
the Georgian government says it
is. The Russian claims that
what's going on at the lugar lab
is far more sinister, haven't
been supported by any hard
evidence in taxes.
Authorities are warning that a
traveler with measles may have
unknowingly exposed others
across the country that come
that new alert comes amid an
increase in measles cases
nationwide. Sam Brock is in
Austin with the latest.
Tonight an urgent health alert
from Texas after a passenger
infected with measles passed
through the Austin Airport last
week after traveling in Europe.
It's Travis county's first
detected case in 20 years.
We're trying to get on top of
this share as much information
as we can to try to really
contain this
the passenger left from Austin
International Airport on
December 17, but then proceeded
to go to airports in Chicago and
Virginia, meaning that other
passengers and not one, not two,
but three different airports
were potentially exposed this
after separate cases in LA X and
Denver international airports
earlier this month. But health
experts say Austin is at greater
risk because of low vaccination
rates of children.
Austin unfortunately, is one of
the epicenters of the anti
vaccine movement in America. A
startling
study earlier this year
estimates one infected person
could lead to an outbreak of
more than 400 cases in Austin,
with nearly 1300 confirmed cases
of the measles nationwide this
year more than three times the
number last year the highly
contagious virus can linger in
the air for hours. Symptoms
include cough, rash, fever and
sore eyes. Tonight doctors say
it's another stark reminder to
get vaccinated. Sam Brock, NBC
News Austin,
two year old Jude McGee, 26 year
old newlywed Katie mutt
question. Gianna cabas sagg, a
four year old little girl they
all died of the flu, and they
all had flu shots. There's no
question you should get a flu
shot. Last flu season the flu
killed at least 36,000 people so
this shot could literally save
your life. But it's far from
perfect.
Even on a good year, influenza.
The effectiveness of the vaccine
is about 60% On a bad year. It's
as
low as 10%.
Do we need to make a better flu
vaccine?
You know, we really absolutely
do.
In September, President Trump
signed an executive order noting
that the current system for
making flu shots has critical
shortcomings. The order pledges
to modernize the process. The
first step, stop using eggs to
make flu vaccine. They grow the
virus in the eggs like the eggs
you eat for breakfast, and then
they kill the virus and put it
in a vaccine. But sometimes the
virus changes inside the egg so
it doesn't end up matching the
flu that's out there spreading
among people. That's why some
companies like this one have
figured out ways to grow the flu
virus without using eggs.
Trump's executive order is
designed to encourage more of
this technology and something
even bigger, something
researchers have been working on
for years of flu vaccine you
would get only once in your life
instead of every year. A new
viral outbreak from China is
spreading around the world.
Countries like the US Japan and
Thailand have confirmed cases.
And on Wednesday, a Chinese
health official has said the
virus is adapting and mutating.
So what exactly do we know about
this flu like virus? Your health
officials now say it can be
passed from person to person. So
far hundreds of cases have been
confirmed and several people
have died. Symptoms include
fever, coughing and difficulty
breathing and can lead to
pneumonia. The exact origins is
unknown though Chinese officials
have linked the outbreak to a
seafood market in the city of
Wuhan. All of the deaths so far
have been in that central
Chinese city. It's also home to
a Foxconn plant, which is a key
supplier to Apple. And it's
hosting Olympic qualifiers for
women's soccer next month. thing
to look out for next will be
what happens over Chinese New
Year, and whether Fear takes its
toll on the global economy.
Millions of people are preparing
to travel around China and
abroad for the New Year
celebrations, raising the risk
of a wider contagion. Fear of a
pandemic has also sent chills
through the markets, investors
are comparing it to China's 2003
SARS outbreak that killed nearly
800 people, and by some
estimates caused $40 billion in
global economic losses. Aviation
and luxury goods stocks have
already been hit particularly
hard with concerns it could
deter Chinese consumers from
traveling or shopping.
What we know and I think this is
one of the big points out and I
remember this covering the SARS
outbreak and the MERS outbreak
at some point. The question is,
is this something that is just
spreading from animals to humans
as it seemed to be in central
China, people visiting the
seafood and an exotic pet
markets? Or is this something
that is spreading from human to
human? And we now have evidence
that it is spreading from human
to human? Seems that 14
healthcare workers that were
taking care of this patient in
Wuhan, were infected and we also
know people who never visited
Wuhan are now carrying the
virus. So that human to human
transmission is what this
meeting tomorrow this public
health meeting is going to be
all about. Really scary.
I mean, or at least it sounds
scary to the lay person.
And so what's keeping public
health officials up at night
most?
Well, you know, I think
immediately what you think of
when you hear this Coronavirus,
and we have an image of what
this looks like. You think a
SARS you remember this I mean I
covered this 2003 You think of
MERS by the way quick
microbiology Coronavirus, that's
the crown on the outside, you'll
always be able to identify this
type of virus. They're mostly an
animal's Allison seven times
have we ever documented they
jumped from animals to humans
and only two of those times what
didn't end up being a really
significant infection, SARS and
MERS so what's keeping public
health officials up at night is
is this going to go the way of
SARS and MERS was SARS was a
nearly two dozen countries 8000
People infected 800 people died.
Is it going to go that way? Or
is it going to be more of a more
innocuous gets people sick but
people don't really die? We
don't know yet. And that's what
they're going to try and
determine look at all this data
and figure that out.
Found a new virus that has
killed nine people and infected
hundreds more in China has now
spread to the US. A man in his
30s from Washington State is the
first person in America to be
diagnosed with Coronavirus. It's
called the man returned to the
Seattle area last week from a
trip to Wuhan. That's a city in
central China where the outbreak
began. Right now that patient is
in isolation in a hospital north
of Seattle.
Our number one priority is to
complete the identification of
all the patients contacts, reach
out to the contacts and monitor
their health. We also want to
enhance screening is already in
place at three US airports with
two more being added this week.
Are Dr. Tara Narula is you're at
the table with more on this
story. You hear about it. You
see the mask. It's very
disturbing. How worried should
we be? Yeah, and
what is it? Exactly?
So this is a form of
Coronavirus. We've known about
Coronavirus before this is a new
strain. This is a virus that's
found worldwide. It causes
typically a mild or moderate
respiratory illness but it can
be more severe. We saw that with
SARS and MERS which are also
forms of Coronavirus. So
certainly the CDC is
recommending that we be cautious
about this that we'd be
proactive because it is a new
strain. It is contagious. So
interestingly, they think it
does circulate in animals, and
occasionally can make the jump
from animals to humans, which is
what they think happened in this
case, because the initial cases
were surrounding an area of
market a seafood animal market
in the Wuhan area. And so they
think that it started in
animals, it was transmitted to
humans. And now they're saying
that, in fact that is spread
between human to humans. Bottom
line,
we don't have to worry about
this one, right. Well, I
you know, obviously you need to
take it seriously and do the
kinds of things that the CDC and
the Department of Homeland
Security are doing. But this is
not a major threat for the
people in the United States. And
this is not something that the
citizens of the United States
right now should be worried
about.
It's great to see. Thank you for
joining us again in Davos. We've
done this before, right think
was a couple of years ago.
Before we get started with with
we're going to talk about the
economy a lot of other things. A
The CDC has identified a case of
Coronavirus in Washington state
the Wu Han strain of this if you
remember SARS that affected GDP
travel related effects. Do you?
Have you been briefed by the
CDC? The words about a pandemic
at this point? Oh,
not at all. And we're, we have a
totally under control. It's one
person coming in from China. And
we have it under control. It's
going to be just fine.
Okay. President Xi. There's just
some some talk in China that
that maybe the transparency
isn't everything that it's going
to be you trust that we're going
to know everything we need to
know from China?
I do I do. I have a great
relationship with President Xi.
We just signed probably the
biggest deal ever made that
terms. It certainly has the
potential to be the biggest deal
ever made. And it was very
interesting for the time, let's
get without it done. And no, I
do. I think the relationship is
very, very good.
It may take quite some time
before we know the full economic
impact of the one virus but the
disruption is likely to dent
China's economy. And that's
because Wuhan is a major
transport hub in recent years
has become a symbol of
capitalism in central China with
international automakers, such
as Honda and General Motors
Building cars there. In fact,
reports say that more than 300
of the world's top 500 companies
have a presence in Wuhan. Local
government data showed that
one's GDP growth was 7.8% last
year and that that is 1.7
percentage points higher than
the national average. Who hands
economic strength last year came
as its total value of imports
and exports hit a record high it
was 13.7% higher than in 2018.
And it accounted for almost 62%
of Hubei provinces
overall foreign trade value
tonight concern growing in the
United States officials saying
they expect more people will
contract the dangerous new
disease. Passengers on flights
to Boston wearing face masks.
Everybody's wearing the mask
because they're afraid of
getting infected by other people
in Seattle, Chicago and Los
Angeles reports that stores are
running out of supplies of
masks. Two cases currently
confirmed in Chicago a woman in
her 60s She had cold like
symptoms shortness of breath,
fever, and many times it would
present just like a cold just to
pay for cold or flu and outside
Seattle, a man in his 30s At
least 63 people are now being
tested for the respiratory
illness in 22 states including
three possible cases in New
York. Symptoms include fever,
dry cough and shortness of
breath. Tonight hospitals on
high alert Dr. Jennifer Ashton
visited New York City's Health
and Hospitals Bellevue
so this is a negative pressure
Room here at the hospital where
a patient with Coronavirus would
be cared for by specially
trained
medical personnel. They showed
her precautions they would need
to take how prepared
are you and your staff to
receive a patient who may have
Coronavirus. We're prepared to
take that patient now our radar
is always set high so we can
screen these patients so we can
stop it from infecting other
people in the public.
Tonight at the epicenter of the
Coronavirus outbreak. The crisis
is escalating dozens of workers
in Wuhan with heavy machinery
racing against time to build a
brand new 1000 bed hospital in
just 10 days, and now a second
1300 bed facility in the next
15. The space desperately needed
hospitals teeming with patients
and staff stretched then. In
China alone. There are now more
than 1400 cases and at least 42
deaths as more than 400 medics
who've worked on SARS and Ebola
deploy to help with a rapidly
growing emergency. Wuhan and 16
other cities in a travel
lockdown. That's a total of 15
million people ordered to stay
in place. That's the population
of the state of New York and
Texas combined. The US
government's evacuating the
majority of consulate employees
and families from Wuhan and is
reportedly working on a charter
flight to get all remaining
Americans out.
The term Cabin Fever is probably
coming into play here.
Here it's the Chinese Lunar New
Year the country's biggest
holiday. New Year worshipers
have gathered here to pray for
good luck in the year of the
wrath. But people also be warned
about gathering in large places
like this. And so most people
here are wearing these kind of
protective masks. The list of
cases outside Mainland China
also growing with more than 35
cases in 13 countries or
territories, including France.
In Japan. The health ministry
says three evacuees have tested
positive for the virus. A day
after returning to Tokyo. 206
passengers were on their
government chartered flight on
Wednesday all were sent to
medical institutions to undergo
tests. The ministry says two of
the infected patients had no
symptoms. It's the first time in
Japan the virus has been
detected in patients with
without symptoms. The prime
minister also says two of the
evacuees didn't give their
consent for the health check.
The procedure was not legally
binding. Unfortunately, they did
not agree to be tested. We could
not force them as it was also a
human rights issue.
They said he's confident all
evacuees on subsequent flights
will give their consent. Now a
second plane carrying 210
Japanese nationals from the
virus hit city touchdown at
Haneda Airport on Thursday
morning. 13 passengers on that
flight are exhibiting symptoms
and have been sent to a special
hospital for infectious
diseases.
Good morning. Dr. Jango Chou has
been recognized by the Governor
General's Innovation Awards.
This work can't be done without
teamwork. She and the team
at the National microbiology lab
have been praised for developing
any bola vaccine, but just over
a week ago to her husband and
her students from China were
evicted from Canada's only level
for lab. Their security access
revoked. Staff at the lab was
told last Monday the couple is
on leave and not to communicate
with them. We're getting those
resources who work at the lab
but who don't want to be
identified for Fears they'll be
punished. They say this is
coming just months after it
specialists entered choose
office after hours and replaced
your computer and her superiors
stopped authorizing work trips
to China. Manitoba RCMP
confirmed it was called in by
the Public Health Agency of
Canada on May 24. A spokesperson
says the agency is investigating
a policy breach calling it an
administrative matter and it's
taking steps to resolve it
expeditiously. We can assure
Canadians that there is no risk
to the public and that the work
of the NML continues in support
of the health and safety of all
Canadians.
I want to stress. The risk of
infection for Americans remains
low. And with these and our
previous actions, we are working
to keep the risk low. All
agencies are working
aggressively to monitor this
continually evolving situation.
And to keep the public informed
and it constantly transparent
way. The United States
appreciates China's efforts and
coordination with public health
officials across the globe and
continues to encourage the
highest levels of transparency.
It is likely that we will
continue to see more cases in
the United States in the coming
days and weeks, including some
limited person to person
transmission. The American
public can be assured the full
weight of the US government is
working to safeguard the health
and safety of the American
people.
You need not look far to see the
economic consequences of this
virus airline after airline
suspending flights to China.
This afternoon. One of air
Canada's last direct flights
from Beijing landed in
Vancouver. In China, entire
swaths of the country have been
shut down. Starbucks has closed
more than half its outlets
Toyota announced it will close
its plants. And Google says it
will temporarily close all of
its Chinese offices. Remember
though back in 2003, China was
basically the world's factory
today China's much more
intertwined in the buying and
selling of the global economy.
The fact that the
Chinese authorities have clamped
down and they put many cities in
lockdown already. That means
those consumers aren't out there
purchasing and that will really
dampen Chinese growth.
And that dampening will be felt
in places you may not expect.
Cameron seafood sells about half
its lobsters to China. And
Chinese New Year is one of the
busiest times of year they were
set to ship about 20,000 pounds
this week.
Those are all canceled. So
actually the sales to China
completely disappeared from
Monday.
There are other markets for
those lobsters but there's no
way to make up the loss of the
Chinese market and no way of
knowing how or when the world's
second biggest economy will
reopen for business.
A new case of the deadly
Coronavirus has been confirmed
in the US the latest case in
Massachusetts. It's the eighth
in the US and the first on the
East Coast. Health officials
have declared a public health
emergency. nearly 14,000 people
worldwide have been infected and
more than 300 have died. And
nearly 60 million people in
China are under travel
restrictions. Ramy no Sensio
leading us off from Beijing.
The CDC says the new case of
Coronavirus is a Boston resident
in his 20s who recently traveled
to the center of the outbreak
Wuhan China, he's been placed in
isolation. Also today tech giant
Apple announced it would close
all its stores and offices in
China until February 9, joining
a growing list of companies
restricting operations here this
all comes as the worst The World
Health Organization declared a
global health emergency and the
US State Department raised its
travel advisory for China to the
highest level, meaning do not
travel to China. A new study out
by the British medical journal
The Lancet estimates that more
than 75,000 people have been
infected by the virus as of last
week. If that turns out to be
true, it will confirm what many
already fear that Beijing is
massively under reporting these
numbers. The CDC reported that
even if patients initial tests
for Coronavirus are negative,
they could still develop the
illness because the test only
works when patients have
symptoms. A study also showed
the virus can be transmitted by
patients with no symptoms. A
woman who travelled from
Shanghai to Germany infected
seven other people while she
remained asymptomatic. Those
findings contributed to the
decision to place 195 Americans
housed at a California airbase
in the first federal quarantine
in 50 years, they will spend 14
days there
that's way to control a virus
like this is to keep people away
from everyone else. While you
run out the clock on that
incubation period,
I routinely monitor outbreaks of
disease around the world, both
for humans and animals to see if
there might be a biological
warfare agent at work. So I
follow what was going on there
at Wuhan. And eventually reached
the conclusion that what we are
dealing here is an offensive
biological warfare agent that
leapt out of the Wuhan biosafety
level for a laboratory there
that has been DNA genetically
engineered with gain of function
properties that simply
accelerates the DNA genetically
engineering for a bio warfare
agent in the first place. And as
far as I can tell, right now,
Steve, just having read the
public record, it does appear as
if it's a combination of what's
called a camera that basically
you have the SARS. And we know
that that facility has
previously worked with SARS and
stars leaked out of there at
least twice before combined with
the flu virus. And it appears
also combined with HIV that, you
know, leads to AIDS. At a
minimum. It's my opinion that
you know, it's extremely
dangerous. The Chinese
government the first case was
December 1, it had nothing at
all to do with the you know, the
food central there that's just
baloney and propaganda. Clearly
the Chinese government knew
about it probably right around
December one, the first human to
human transmission transmission
was December 15. So the Chinese
government has been lying about
it since then. This is a
specially designated who
research lab. Now imagine that
the who are specially
designating a bio warfare lab.
So the by the who is in on this?
These BSL four facilities are
only good for research,
developing, testing and
stockpiling biological warfare
weapons.
The Chinese doctor who warned
the government about a possible
Coronavirus outbreak has died
after contracting the virus
while working at Wuhan Central
Hospital. 34 year old
ophthalmologist Li wenliang
warned his fellow medical
workers about Coronavirus on
December 30. He was then
investigated by police and
accused of making false
comments. His death has sparked
a wave of anger and outrage in
China, where the hashtag We want
freedom of speech went viral on
Chinese social media site Weibo
on Thursday.
US officials announced today
that an American citizen has
died from the Coronavirus in the
Chinese city of Wuhan. The 60
year old woman who died on
Thursday reportedly had
underlying health issues before
becoming the first known
American fatality from the
illness. As the death toll rises
and the virus spreads.
Authorities from around the
world are taking strict
precautions to slow the spread
of the deadly disease. Hong Kong
said today that it will begin
enforcing a mandatory quarantine
for anyone arriving from
mainland China and 3700 people
are being ordered to remain
aboard a cruise ship for 14 days
after 64 passengers tested
positive for the virus. The
Coronavirus has infected nearly
35,000 people globally since it
was first detected in December.
So let's talk about impeachment
first process is finally behind
us. The President was acquitted.
Mark, looking back on it, what
do you make of the process and
the outcome?
Well, let me begin by saying
David correctly predicted the
outcome. And so, you know, I
have to defer, acknowledge that
God, there was a reluctance on
the part of Nancy Pelosi and the
speaker, the speaker and the
leadership to approach
impeachment, they did not see it
as a political winner, but it
was forced upon them, and by the
President, and by the revelation
that he was shaking down of not
extorting an ally, to obtain
unflattering and libelous
information on his principle of
principle political opponent. So
they the left with no choice. I
think that, you know, several
people acquitted themselves.
Well, the I will say that Mitt
Romney restored some faith in in
the process. I mean, we've gone
through a great time in American
politics with religions
involved, where your question
is, does your faith inspire your
politics? That is your politics,
a shape your faith, and I think
Mitt Romney to his credit, you
stood as a witness to his belief
in his convictions. But Donald
Trump emerges from it,
emboldened, as by demonstrated
by his remarkably egregious
behavior since then, at the
prayer breakfast in the White
House, and public utterances,
and in today's actions,
Senator Tom Cotton, who sits on
the Senate Intelligence and
Armed Services Committee
suggested that the virus may
have come from China's
biological warfare program.
That's an extraordinary charge.
How do you respond to that?
I think it's true that a lot is
still unknown. And our
scientists, Chinese scientists,
American scientists, scientists
of other countries are doing
their best to learn more about
the virus. But it's very
harmful. It's very dangerous, to
stir up suspicion, rumors and
spread them among the people.
For once, this will create
panic. Another thing is that it
will fend up racial
discrimination, xenophobia, all
these things that will really
harm our joint efforts to combat
the virus. Of course, there are
all kinds of speculation and
rumors that people who are
saying that these viruses are
coming from some military lab
not of China, maybe in the
United States. How can we
believe all these crazy things?
He's like, it's crazy. Where did
the absolutely crazy? Where did
the virus come from? We still
don't know yet. It's probably
according to some initial
outcome of the research.
Probably coming from some
animals, but we have to, to
discover more about it.
Number one, I was a Democratic
caucus. Member of caucus. No,
you have it. You're a lion dog
faced pony soldier.
The press is creates hysteria
and headlines that are now
divorced from the facts. I will
not know when we actually have a
pandemic coming. I will not be
able from reading. I'll put them
on hold reading the press, I
will not be able to know what
we've got on our hands. And this
is a perfect example of that. So
here are the headlines now. 10s
of 1000s of more cases that we
had realized 300 Dead in China,
when the headline should read,
in spite of it being milder and
infecting many more 10s of 1000s
of people that we knew the death
rate still remains just 300
people. Mm hmm. The numerator
versus denominator is point oh
3%. Right. I don't know as is.
In other words, you put 300 over
40,000 That's the death rate for
them from Coronavirus, right,
because they're realizing that
was much more widespread, much
milder, much less likely to kill
anybody except people that are
immunocompromised and are old or
at risk for complications of our
illnesses. You are much more
likely to die of the flu right
now than the Coronavirus right
now. Why isn't that the
headline? Why do they why are
they saying get your flu shots
reminder. Don't worry about this
one. The CDC has got it.
Tonight the CDC is intensifying
the battle against the deadly
Coronavirus that has infected
more than 50,000 people
worldwide. More than 1500 people
have died nearly all of them in
China, Carter Evans now on
China's drastic measures to stop
the outbreak.
This is what can happen to
people who don't wear masks in
the epicenter of the outbreak.
And security forces patrol the
streets of Wuhan during a total
lockdown for medical personnel
protective gear like suits and
masks are in short supply, as is
adequate care, hospitals and
clinics are overflowing with
this sick and dying. In the US
the CDC is ramping up its own
work respond to the epidemic by
setting up five laboratories
around the country where people
with flu like symptoms can now
go and be tested for the virus
if their flu results are
negative. This has scientists
around the world race to develop
a vaccine. So you're using DNA
and genetics to teach the body
how to attack the virus
exactly and to recognize the
virus and then attack it
immediately.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals in San
Diego has already successfully
developed vaccines for Ebola and
Zika Dr. K Broderick says the
Coronavirus vaccine they're
working on now is showing
promise.
It's currently being tested in
the lab literally as we speak,
and we're manufacturing large
scale quantities of it to get it
into human testing by the early
summer.
The US government is preparing
to evacuate about 400 Americans
tomorrow night from the Diamond
Princess cruise ship quarantined
at a Japanese port for the past
10 days. Those passengers will
have to spend another two weeks
in quarantine when they return
to the US so far. 285 people on
board the ship have tested
positive for the virus and were
sent to Japanese hospitals.
Today. Malaysian health
authorities diagnosed an 83 year
old American woman with the
Coronavirus. She arrived in
Malaysia after being on board
the Westerdam cruise ship
currently docked in Cambodia.
That ship was turned away from
multiple countries before more
than 2200 passengers and crew
were allowed to disembark
yesterday when no one showed
symptoms or tested positive. In
France. authorities announced
that an 80 year old Chinese
tourists died of the virus, the
first death outside of Asia and
the fourth outside Mainland
China. The Chinese government
reported 143 deaths and more
than 2600 new cases of the
Coronavirus in the past 24
hours.
Mark just a few seconds a few
seconds, Judy, I mean, his
Amanda's pushing prosecutors to
prosecute James Comey and Andrew
McCabe and intervenes of Mike
Flynn. And for Roger Stone. Why
Roger Stone? I think this open
speculation and very plausible
Roger stones, the one person
that could tie Donald Trump to
WikiLeaks and to the Russians in
the 2016. I mean, after all that
investment to all that
investigation. I mean, he that's
what he did. That's what he was
lying about. That's he was the
intermediary. And I think that
it's not out of loyalty or
affection. I think it's out of
vulnerability. He's still
concerned with that 2016
election, rather than worried
about 2020 landing
in Omaha, Nebraska today,
escorted from the plane one by
one by medical teams rushed off
by motorcade to this special
isolation unit.
They've had a very long journey.
So I think we're not going to
make any assumptions about
anything that's passed along
verbally. We're going to go
ahead and just test everybody.
338 Americans were evacuated
from the Diamond Princess cruise
ship in Japan flown to bases in
Texas and California arriving
overnight. 14 are suspected of
having a Coronavirus infection
for now in isolation and
hospitalized near Travis Air
Force Base near Sacramento. 10.
In Omaha, hundreds of passengers
checked before leaving the ship
were deemed healthy to fly. I
have to put my mask on the bus
will take you airplane. Airplane
takes you Thanks. But after the
evacuation had already begun a
complication, new test results
revealed those 14 people were
positive for the virus exposing
others on a 40 minute bus ride
to the airport. Officials making
a critical decision saying the
safest option was to push
forward with the evacuation,
putting infected patients in the
back of the plains in these
special isolation chambers.
They put temperatures at a high
temperature you went into that
isolation booth. Mark Jorgensen
had to leave his wife behind in
a Japanese hospital after she
tested positive for the virus.
So far 454 Cruise passengers
have been infected. We met John
and Melanie herring when he
spiked a fever and had to be
hospitalized. He's now fighting
the virus and has pneumonia fine
Diamond Princess The couple
deciding Melanie should be on
that flight home. Melanie is now
back in the US telling us she to
spiked a fever.
Alright, so let's get to Clayton
said del he is live from Omaha
tonight in Clayton the rest of
the roughly 300 passengers the
Americans who showed no sign of
the virus we know they spent
time on those buses with these
passengers. The Americans the 14
who it's believed might be
infected with Coronavirus of
course more testing here at
home. But I gathered the rest of
the passengers who were in close
contact will be watched closely
now for the days to come.
They will be watched very
closely David they'll be in
quarantine for two weeks. And
it's important to note that
those 14 others who tested
positive in Japan will be tested
again here in the States. And
while that happens they will be
kept in quarantine in isolation
away from everyone else. David
the World Health
Organization warned today that
the window of opportunity to
contain the international spread
of the Coronavirus is closing,
South Korea has become the
latest fraud in the outbreak,
the country declared a health
emergency. As cases their
quadrupled to more than 200
infections over the past two
days, officials closed schools
and banned math mass gatherings,
including services at a church
that most of the sick attended.
Good. No one has entered the
church since Tuesday. We did
disinfection work twice on
Tuesday and Wednesday. Right now
all the disinfection work is
complete, and no one is entering
the church.
Meanwhile, in China, the number
of new infections fell for
another day, Chinese officials
have recorded over 75,000 cases
and more than 2200 deaths. So
far, at least 12 more deaths
have been confirmed outside of
mainland China.
It's a disaster. It's
disastrous. It's crazy. It
started out with a ridiculous
psychosis against Chinese or any
oriental looking people. So
already, I'd say two weeks ago,
people weren't going to Chinese
restaurants anymore somehow
thinking that you know, anything
Chinese, no matter if they've
been to China or born here. And
there was a lot of
discrimination against Chinese
people couldn't even come into
shops, psychosis, total
ridiculous stuff. In the
meantime, Italy was one of the
first to really start testing
everyone. So I went to Madrid 12
days ago, I think, and I went to
Spain and nothing going on. And
then when I came back to
Florence, they they zapped me
with a thermometer. So already,
this really goes to prove how
you know if you're testing
everyone, first of all, you're
going to find cases, and that's
what happened. They found people
who didn't have any symptoms at
all, and whatever. I think the
government is there, everybody's
giving the information that you
know is very contagious. Yes,
but it's not lethal and only old
people only that's the problem,
of course poor people with, you
know, immune deficiency problems
or the elderly with issues. So
the government and the media
sort of are giving the I think
they're giving the right
information, but the actions are
just the opposite. So closing
museums, closing schools. I
mean, and the final thing is, of
course, canceling football games
or doing football games in close
stadiums that that gives a big
message yesterday passengers
from a bus called the police to
come because they overheard the
bus driver talking to his doctor
about having Coronavirus, so
they called the cops. The cops
came and turned out the bus
driver was just telling his
doctor that he had done the test
because he had to for his job
and that he was negative. So I
mean, can you imagine people on
the bus freaking out and calling
the cops because they hear the
bus driver talking about the
Coronavirus. That said, so my
telescope is closed, even if I'm
doing an online university and
of course the online stuff goes
on. But I had two exams
programmed for Friday, the 27th
of March and until further
notice, those have been
suspended. On the other hand,
the University of Florence is
open and Sabby started classes
again yesterday. And she said it
was packed. So and then you hear
stories about supermarkets rated
in Milan. And even here in
Florence, people are hoarding
and we don't we don't do this
stuff. We just go we're trying
to go to as many Chinese
restaurants possible. I have a
son who's doing his usual
shopping at the Chinese junk
shores stores. So we're trying
to contribute to normal life. Of
course, I'm a remote worker. So
I'm not really touched about all
I'm not really touched by any of
this. But you know, even if I
were I mean we're feeding it
normally, but unfortunately the
sheep are just going behind what
everything's happening. So so
the
corona outbreak in Iran is
becoming deeply troubling. The
epicenter was in the holy city
of gloworm. And it's spread
rapidly from there now one of
the main reasons it has affected
Iran so badly seems to be that
Iran has kept its flights open
with China during the outbreak
there. And because Iran has such
close ties to China, and both
politically and economically
links with the Chinese, which
have been a lifeline for Tehran
to combat sanctions. They didn't
close access from and to China,
and it also seems that senior
officials are not immune to the
virus either. Members of
Parliament the mayor of
Tyrone's, 13th district have
contracted the virus and even
the deputy health minister,
who's in charge of countering
the corona virus has tested
positive for it. In a video
that's become viral in Iran, he
seems standing next to the
government spokesman during a
press conference. With the
media, he sweating profusely and
constantly wiping his brow with
a handkerchief. The government
spokesman then attended meetings
with other senior officials.
That same deputy health minister
also gave an interview on state
TV last night where he was
coughing and spluttering away.
And today, in a live speech,
Iran's President, Hassan
Rouhani, said that this is one
of the threats of the enemy, the
USA, to spread fright amongst
Iranian society, in Iran to lead
the country towards closure. The
other
thing? How would it get out of
the lab, most people would think
well, a technician got infected
through poor lab procedure, and
then walked out on the street
infected his family and friends
and so forth. But there's
another way it could have gotten
out of the lab, because we know
that that in China, some
researchers, not all but some
researchers have actually taken
their lab animals after they're
done experimenting with them,
after they've been infected with
various viruses so forth. If the
lab animals aren't dead, they
take the bats and the rats and
the snakes and everything to the
local fresh meat market and sell
them on the fresh meat market to
make extra money. So the virus
may have passed to human beings.
By that means, through the the
Avenue of the vector of
someone's stomach,
but I'm not at all convinced
that we can't get hold of what
we need here in the US, we have
stockpiles, we also have the
capacity to produce more in all
these areas. I'm no expert in
this. But we've seen some of
these biotech companies, Gilead
being one of them, probably
coming up with the vaccine in a
much shorter time than people
realize.
I'm deeply concerned that we are
way behind the eight bonus.
Well, we actually have been
aggressively moving. It's been a
month and a half since this
situation arose. And we have
enacted the most aggressive
containment measures in the
history of our country. In terms
of our borders. I've used the
first federal quarantine
authority and 50 years of an HHS
Secretary, we worked
every single American today that
if this pandemic hits our
shores, that we have everything
available, and we've stockpiled
it and we're ready to go.
That's just I was very clear,
when we enacted our containment
measures at the border, we
cannot hermetically seal off the
United States to alarms. And we
need to be realistic about that.
And so this virus will have
ozone in some forms. It does and
we'll have more cases in the
United States. And we've been
very transparent about that. And
we will then work to mitigate
the impact of those
they met in Italy now the
epicenter of the corona virus in
Europe, trying to coordinate the
response to the disease. While
taking measures to block the
outbreak, Europe's health
ministers decided against
canceling all major public
events and against shutting
their borders. On TV,
we've decided to apply a set of
common principles in the next
days, weeks and months in
principles based on good
cooperation and mutual
assistance. And we've decided
that it's unthinkable to even
consider closing our borders in
such a measure would be
inefficient,
who left a majority for chair
while China has applied to
drastic measures to stop the
outbreak imposing lockdowns on
10s of millions. Europeans say
that closing their borders and
posing ID checks or examining
travelers will not stop the
disease. Scientists say it can
still slow its expansion on
pressure.
controlling the flow of
travelers can slow down the
spread of the disease. But I
believe it can't stop it
altogether. Probably.
Since the latest spate of
infections in Italy COVID-19 has
reached new countries
Switzerland, Croatia and Austria
through people who had traveled
from Italy, Germany, France and
Spain have declared new cases.
Washington state public health
officials gave new details and
an afternoon press conference
about the circumstances that led
to the man's death.
The person who died was a
patient at Evergreen hospital,
but underlying health
conditions. It was a male in his
50s.
At this mumble we have 22
patients in the United States
currently that have Coronavirus.
Unfortunately one person passed
away overnight. She was a
wonderful woman a medically high
risk patient in her late 50s.
That was a lot. Let me start
with the most important part and
that is confirmation that an
American has died in Washington
State. We had early reports that
it was a male and reverse
release from the governor of
Washington referred to our
hearts go out to his family and
friends. The President then said
that it was a woman in her 50s.
The the governor of Washington's
press release has been changed
to make reference to there. So
we are unclear. We do not have
confirmation. We're trying to
get confirmation, but we do know
that the first US citizen has
died
after do. Are we overreacting?
Yes, yes. Yeah, I'm
hearing this from doctors left
and right.
Yes. And we are not
overreacting. The press is
overreacting. And it makes me
furious. The Press should not be
reporting medical stories as
though they know how to report
we will if we have a pandemic, I
don't know how to tell that
we're actually having a pandemic
because everything is an
emergency. People that are
infectious disease specialists,
the CDC, the epidemiologist,
need to take this very
seriously. The Press needs to
shut up because you're more
likely to die of influenza right
now. However, it
may I'm not trying to go against
you. But I have a question. It
is now beat stars in terms of
fatalities. 362, and they're
saying
Tality rate is still lower, but
there's spreads fast. It's a
mild illness, it spreads all
over the place. And it's only
out of the 17,000 in documented
effect that I bet there's
hundreds of 1000s of cases 300
deaths, okay, and always in
immunocompetent compromised
people always in people that are
at risk for these sorts of
things. If they get a severe
viral respiratory infection,
whether it's flu or corona, or
whatever. All of these can hurt
people who are compromised. They
can the rest of us need to wash
your hands carefully get our
influenza vaccines. Listen to
the CDC, if there's a problem,
they will let us know the CDC
made it very clear that 5000
People just in the last two
weeks have died from the flu
here in America. Why are we
panicked about that real people
died on the streets of Los
Angeles this morning from
homelessness warning if that
were Coronavirus, people freak
the hell out right? Why aren't
we putting our parties in the
right place? It's the press,
as you may know, as of today,
and I say as of today at this
hour, we have 33 confirmed
positive tests for the virus.
Five individuals have
subsequently moved out of state.
So they're 28 people that we
know in the state of California
that are positive. The case
yesterday, understandably
generated a lot of attention,
but didn't surprise any of the
folks standing to my left or
right. We knew this was
inevitable, as it relates to the
nature, the epidemiology the
nature of these viruses that
that incident would occur
accordingly.
When hearing about it, we
initiated a series of protocols
that we were prepared to
advance.
Thank you, Mr. President.
And I'm just going to ask you
directly about this with regard
to the flow of information. From
the very beginning, you received
a lot of criticism regarding
that, in particular about Dr.
Anthony Fauci.
He is world renowned in
contagious diseases. And there
were reports out there that he
was being muscle, can you tell
us that this widely respected
expert, Dr. Fauci will have
every opportunity to tell us the
truth? Well, that's a great
question because he has, because
he has had that ability to do
virtually whatever he's wanting
to do. And in fact, in fact, he
was never muscle. Okay. I think
I can speak you can speak Why
don't you speak to the very
dishonest question, but that's
honest, I want to
clarify. I want to clarify. So
let me let me clarify it. I have
never been muzzled ever and I've
been doing this since the
administration of Ronald Reagan.
I'm not being muzzled by this
administration. What happened,
which was misinterpreted, is
that we were set up to go on
some shows. And when the Vice
President took over, we said,
Let's regroup and figure out how
we're going to be communicating.
So I had to just stand down on a
couple of shows and re submit
for clearance. And when I
resubmitted for clearance, I got
cleared, so I have not been
muzzle liberal. That was a real
misrepresentation of what
happened.
Breaking news tonight President
Trump address the nation today
announcing the first Coronavirus
death in this country, a patient
in Washington State. The
president says there's no reason
for panic. He plans to meet with
drug companies on Monday to
discuss vaccines. The outbreak
has now spread with at least 65
cases across nine states. There
have been three new cases today
all in Washington State and Wall
Street has been infected. The
Dow lost more than 3500 points
this week. A 12% Drop. CBS is
Steve Dorsey is that the White
House
there's no reason to panic
in and abruptly arrange the
White House news conference
President Trump tried to
reassure the country. His
administration is taking
unprecedented actions to contain
the virus. It comes after he
accused Democrats of trying to
weaponize it against him at a
South Carolina rally last
Tonight is that new hoax. And
today he doubled down
the hoax was used with respect
to Democrats and what they were
saying it was a hoax what they
were saying. But the President's
critics
say he's the one putting
politics ahead of public health.
Their problem is when you have
the highest levels of the Trump
administration actively using
words like hoax, that sends a
very dangerous signal to
American people. We want folks
to take this seriously.
Meanwhile, the White House is
announcing new travel
restrictions on foreign
nationals who have recently
visited Iran. It's also now
telling Americans to avoid
traveling to areas in Italy and
South Korea most affected by the
virus.
It's certainly not a good
situation when you lose travel.
That's a big part of market. But
for a period of time we're gonna
have to do whatever is necessary
safety health number one, where
the markets will take care of
themselves.
The President also stepped up
pressure today on the Fed to cut
interest rates to help protect
the economy. Rena
see you thank you very much in
Tennessee Smyrna, Tennessee
Republican line, Michael. Hello,
fellows. Thanks for taking the
call. I want to talk about the
Coronavirus that's not that's
been around for a long time.
Excuse me. If you look on your
your levels of Lysol
Disinfectant, it sits on their
human Coronavirus. I believe
that China created this a
different strain of it. They
released it to their people. I
believe I did it to start a
recession in China because their
economy is so bad right now. And
now they're they're wanting to
get it over here in the United
States. And it's working if they
started in a easy avenue to
start a recession here in the
United States. Because we ship
things from China. You think
about the bubble wrap you busted
bubble wrap, it's got Air and
Air it could it could have that
strain of Coronavirus in there.
And it'd be easy for Donald
Trump to shut the ports down.
And we start tre stop trading,
then we got a recession in
America. So I believe that
people are really just taking
this too much out of contact
text because of the regular
virus, the flu kills people. And
we don't know if these people
are dying from just a natural
cause of flu. They're old or
their immune system as well. So
I just played they're just
trying to scare everybody. It's
a socialist tactic to try to
scare people from going out,
going on vacations and getting
around crowds of individuals.
Okay, so that's my
goal in Tennessee. The President
yesterday when he was speaking
referred to this fatality as a
woman. It is a man is how was
the mistake like that made
because people are very nervous
right now and getting some of
these basic facts right. affects
public trust.
Well, I understand that it's a
very fast moving situation. Our
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention were up late at night
very early in the early in the
morning working with the
Washington State Public Health
Office, and inaccurately
recorded that the individual was
a female. That's what the
President was briefed on.
They've apologized for
incorrectly briefing on that,
but it's a very fast moving
situation. Obviously we're right
there in Los Angeles a state of
emergency. In New York City
tonight about 1000 people are
now under self quarantine, or
possibly coming in contact or
linked to one man who was
hospitalized. In critical but
stable condition tonight. His
wife two children and a neighbor
all testing positive. One of his
children a college student
classes canceled they're in Los
Angeles that state of emergency
six new cases there including an
airport where are doing medical
screenings at Le X but death
toll in the US rising to at
least 11 Tonight the first death
from California, a passenger on
a cruise ship during a round
trip voyage from San Francisco.
ABC is with Johnson leading us
off with the efforts to contain
the virus here in New York and
across the country.
Tonight a scramble to contain
the spread of the Coronavirus in
New York, about 1000 people
ordered to self quarantine all
possibly connected to one
patient in this hospital. That
is
another 12345 people. And again,
all of this one attorney they're
going to be hundreds and was
just
that 50 year old father now
hospitalized in Manhattan in
critical but stable condition.
His wife, two kids, a neighbor
who drove him to the hospital
and another family connected to
his law firm testing positive to
the number of cases jumping to
11. A local public school
district now closing to
disinfect the buildings in
California tonight. Health
officials say this Grand
Princess cruise ship as likely
linked to the state's first
death from the Coronavirus and a
second infection an elderly
patient possibly exposed while
traveling from San Francisco to
Mexico. CDC now investigating a
small cluster of cases of COVID
19 in Northern California traced
back to that ship.
The World Health Organization
said Tuesday the global death
rate from the disease caused by
the new Coronavirus is 3.4
percent far deadlier than the
seasonal flu. The warning came
as the number of Coronavirus
deaths outside China surpassed
the number inside China for the
first time. Washington State
Tuesday reported another
Coronavirus death the ninth in
the region in New York Mayor
Bill de Blasio said Tuesday, a
Manhattan lawyer has become the
second person in the city to
test positive for the new
Coronavirus
worldwide the Coronavirus death
toll now top 3000 With nearly
90,000 cases. But even those
numbers are nothing compared to
what could happen in the months
ahead. Today CBS News's Jim
Axelrod spoke with one of this
country's top experts from
Harvard on viruses who has a
startling prediction.
The number that I think is
grabbing a lot of people is this
estimate 40 to 70% of the
world's adult population could
be infected.
Yes, accurate. That is, it's a
projection. So we will find out
if it's accurate. As things go
on. It is a best estimate that
I've been able to make based on
a combination of the
mathematical models that we use
to track and predict epidemics.
So in terms of addressing the
numbers that may get people
panicked, what can you tell us?
Well, again, the 40 to 70% is a
number infect a proportion of
the population, adult population
infected. And we know that some
people who get this infection
have no or almost no symptoms
whatsoever. What we don't know
is how many there are like that.
So if say that's half the
people, then the 1% or 2% that
we're seeing in the symptomatic
people is cut down by half.
Whatever the number is, it's
going to be it's going to take a
toll if it really does spread as
widely as that projection says,
and that's what I think is
likely to happen.
The Wall Street Journal reports
the Trump administration is
considering using a national
disaster program to cover the
cost of treating Coronavirus in
some of the 27 million Americans
without health coverage. The
nation's largest union of
registered nurses National
Nurses United Tuesday called the
nation's public health system,
woefully unprepared for the
pandemic and demanded once a
vaccine vaccine is developed it
should be made free to the
public
and I wanted to get your
reaction to this global
headlines in China. There's a
new study out tonight showing
that there could be two strains
of
this Coronavirus, which
we see for example, in other
viruses like influenza this
small study out of China showing
two strains one more common one
more transmissible. We don't
know yet about which one is more
common here in the US.
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the state core craft makes glass
cleaner floor cleaners
degreasers laundry detergent,
vehicle fluids hand cleaner, and
now they make hand sanitizer
with alcohol. The current
capacity is 100,000 gallons per
week, and we're going to be
ramping up will be providing
this to governmental agencies,
schools, the MTA, prisons, et
cetera, that is now in
production will start
distributions we're going to
distribute it to New Rochelle,
which is a hot spot for us.
Because literally we're hearing
from governments that they're
having trouble getting the also
to PRL and Mr. Amazon and Mr.
eBay, if you continue the price
gouging, we will introduce our
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It began in healthy looking pigs
months perhaps years ago. A new
Coronavirus spreads silently
within herds. Gradually farmers
started getting sick. infected
people got a respiratory illness
with symptoms ranging from mild
flu like signs to severe
pneumonia. The sickest, required
intensive care many died. At
first, the spread was limited to
those with close contacts,
health care personnel, co
workers and families. But now
it's spreading rapidly
throughout local communities.
International travel has turned
local epidemics into a pandemic
spanning the globe. Just three
months ago cap started in South
America, but has now reached
several countries with more than
30,000 cases and nearly 2000
deaths.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
has deployed the National Guard
to New Rochelle, a suburb of New
York City in Westchester County,
ordering a one mile Containment
Zone around a synagogue whose
congregation is at the center of
the nation's single largest
Coronavirus outbreak. National
Guard members were ordered to
disinfect schools to set up a
Coronavirus testing facility and
to deliver food to people in
quarantine including 1000s of
students forced to remain at
home. This is Governor Cuomo
speaking Tuesday.
It is a dramatic action, but it
is the largest cluster in the
country. And this is literally a
matter of life and death. That's
not a overly rhetorical
statement.
And the hardest hit country in
Europe is Italy where today the
death toll jumped to more than
800 and there are more than
12,000 cases. The lockdown in
that country now includes all
retail stores, bars and
restaurants, except for grocery
stores and pharmacies. Seth
Doane reports tonight from Rome.
With the number of cases outside
China increasing 13 fold and the
number of countries tripling the
head of the World Health
Organization said spread
severity and inaction lead to
that sobering calculation. We
have that
for med the assessment that
COVID-19 can be characterized as
a pandemic,
a pandemic its reach is clear
from China at the epicenter the
number of cases across the world
has exploded to more than
122,000 across 115 countries.
The global fight is so far not
sufficient whether disinfecting
public buses in Spain drive
through swab testing in Belgium
or encouraging the wearing of
masks in Iran. After China Italy
has the highest number of cases
more than 12,000. The quiet
squares and canals across the
country belie the scramble to
stop this virus. There is a
glimmer of hope where this
started in Wuhan. They're
dismantling those specially
built hospitals and the number
of new cases is going down.
Tonight Italy is announcing a
real lockdown only basic public
services will remain in
operation including
transportation. Also grocery
stores and pharmacies will be
open but nor a big hit for a
fragile economy.
China's Senior Medical Advisor
Tom Nanshan says the Coronavirus
outbreak may peak soon and maybe
over by April. In
an interview with Reuters, Mr.
Tong said that the prediction
was made based on mathematical
modeling. The 83 year old is
known for combating the SARS
crisis in China in 2003. This
comes as the death toll from the
Coronavirus epidemic in China
hit 1016.
Now, while the prime minister
today said he feels fine He also
said he has no plans to be
tested for COVID 19 which has
many people asking why not?
Shooto said his doctors actually
advised against testing since he
He's showing those symptoms. And
his health minister Patty high
new pointed out a little later.
That is the normal protocol.
There is no evidence that
someone needs to self isolate if
in fact they have been contact
with someone who is
asymptomatic. And so it's
important it's important to
remember that that is why the
Prime Minister has received that
public health advice it doesn't
have to have a test.
I do also say the Prime
Minister's wife Sophie will be
extensively interviewed as
health officials attempt to
trace everyone she has been in
contact with
and scientists work to contain
the Coronavirus researchers are
still trying to figure out where
it came from. Early research
suggests human picked up the
Coronavirus from animals
possibly bats, but it's not
clear how the virus made that
jump science journalist and
author David's woman has been
tracking this. He joins me now
on the phone and David I know
you know a lot about this but I
am learning with a lot of other
folks here and a disease that
can spread from animals to
humans is called zoonosis
Coronavirus is a zoonotic
disease. What do we know so far
about the Coronavirus and how it
spread from animal to human?
Well, part of what we know comes
from past experience with
outbreaks such as SARS in 2002
and 2003. SARS was a very scary
new virus when it first appeared
in southern China. It was new to
humans, it had to come from
somewhere. And scientists
eventually tracked the SARS
virus to bat bats are the
reservoir hosts, meaning the
virus lives in them without
causing symptoms. Now that was
part of what rang the alarm bell
on coronaviruses coronaviruses.
SARS is one this is another,
they evolve very quickly. They
live in animals, frequently
bats. And when we come in
contact with that, we invite
those viruses to jump from bats
into humans, because they
evolved quickly. They can
frequently adapt to us and cause
terrible trouble.
If it is, in fact bats in this
case as well. What is it about
them that makes them these
frequent hosts of viruses or
reservoir hosts? I believe you
just called them.
That's right. Bats seem to be
overrepresented as the reservoir
hosts for a lot of these scary
viruses, SARS viruses, I
mentioned MERS virus, Hendra
virus in Australia Nipah virus
in Malaysia. Now this one. What
is it about bats? Well, a couple
of things. First of all, bats
are a very diverse order of
mammals. One in every four
species of mammal hunters is a
bat.
The scenes of people stocking up
on toilet paper and cleaning
supplies playing out all over
the country, not just here.
Yeah. Reporter Nicole Comstock
on what's behind the social
anxiety that leads to panic
buying.
Shopping carts are being
sanitized at busy Costcos all
across the Southland where
customers have been stockpiling
food, water and hygiene products
because of the Coronavirus
National Emergency
people are just freaking out
over it's just like chill dude.
Adrian thing some people are
going way overboard hoarding
food and water like it's the end
of the world
or I'm going to hoard myself
inside my house because we're
all gonna die and it's zombie
apocalypse. You know, that's
that's too much.
But why are people buying too
much?
That's kind of a social anxiety.
Psychiatrist Anil Sharma is the
medical director at dignity
Northridge hospital. He says
when some people see the crowded
parking lots long lines and
empty shelves, it triggers an
unreasonable response to run out
and follow suit. Rather than
going into this anxious or
obsessive mode. They should
think rationally
number in a panic mode. Silvia
Hernandez didn't load up her
cart, she thinks most people
don't need to.
They're not really looking into
like kind of educating
themselves on it. Our anxiety
came from the schools shutting
down for three weeks.
Yeah. Earlier this week, the
first clinical trial of the
vaccine candidate for the virus
began in Washington state, as
you probably know, the genetic
sequence of the virus was first
published in January. But thanks
to the unprecedented partnership
between the FDA, NIH and the
private sector, we've reached
human trials for the vaccine.
Just eight weeks later, that's a
record by many, many months. It
used to take years to do this.
And we did it just in a very
short while. That's the fastest
development in history of what
we're doing with regard to the
vaccine, making very, very big
progress.
But according to Tom, there's a
much darker dimension to the
Coronavirus outbreak. He says
there's deep suspicion here that
a major reason it became a
pandemic is a massive state
cover up ordered by China's
President Xi Jinping. Including
arresting the whistleblowing
doctor who later died,
he said The G Jinping virus, not
the cause of it. But certainly
the breadth of the outbreak is
because of the authoritarianism
and the lack of press freedom in
the mainland. There was no
mechanism for anyone to raise
the alarm about this. The one
doctor, you know, who tried to
in the early days and ultimately
succumb to the disease was was
detained and told to shut
up. Public health crises and
closed secret of governments
don't really go together, do
they?
Right. They've even admitted
that, you know, they've changed
the way they collect data a
couple of times, so very, very
tough.
Do you think the death toll
numbers that they're reporting
are accurate? There is a lot of
pressure in China for things to
get back to normal the economy
is suffering. So I think, you
know, it would be reasonable to
think that there is some
malarkey with with the figures,
but you know, it's a black box.
We are in unchartered territory.
One measure of China's influence
is the pressure it has put on
the World Health Organization to
not officially call the
Coronavirus outbreak, a
pandemic, but on that front, the
man at the center of it is
blood. Why is there a blockage
with that? Why was the who are
reluctant to call it a pandemic?
Well, technically it is. I
suspect that it may be because
colleagues may think that if
they will use the word pandemic,
then it would trigger panic and
panic is no good for any kind of
outbreak control.
How was this virus born? What
was the mechanism that gave
birth to it?
Probably a zoonotic jump that is
from a small mammal likely read
or captured, at least for food
consumption.
Fortunately, there's some good
news reports not in that front.
early evidence suggests that
Chloroquine that's a cheap anti
malaria drug may be effective in
treating Coronavirus. Gregory
Rigondeaux is an advisor of the
Stanford University School of
Medicine. And he joins us
tonight. John, thanks so much
for coming on. So tell us what
this is and why you think it's
promising,
please. So the President has the
authority to authorize the use
of hydroxychloroquine against
Coronavirus immediately. He has
cut more red tape at the FDA
than any other president in
history. And for example, in
2017, a new drug was approved
for muscular dystrophy that
enroll in a clinical trial that
for a clinical trial that
enrolled less than 15 patients,
and it was generally
uncontrolled in an open setting.
hydroxychloroquine has been on
the market for over 50 years
with a quality safety profile.
And I'm here to report that as
of this morning, about five
o'clock this morning, a well
controlled peer reviewed study
carried out by the most eminent
infectious disease specialist in
the world did he a Rolls MD PhD
out of the south of France, in
which he enrolled 40 patients
again a well controlled peer
reviewed study that showed a
100% cure rate cheer rate
against Coronavirus. This study
was released this morning on my
Twitter account Rigondeaux ASQ
as well as our most recent
website COVID trial.io. This
study was recently accepted to
the International Journal of
anti microbial agents by
Elsevier. I'm going to show
to no agenda. Imagine all the
people who could do that. Oh
yeah, that'd be fun.
And there you go.
I forgot at least 60% of those.
It's like this festival of
recognition. Oh, oh, holy. Oh,
man.
Bag report.
Oh, my goodness.
A lot of this stems out out of
New York. So that makes sense.
Yeah, right the front. But she's
and they lock in everybody down?
Do you think in hindsight that
people realize how duped they
were? I'm not no agenda people
but people in general they
realize how deep they've been?
No, I don't think so. I think
it's gonna take years before
they realize it. Because when
you really didn't make Yeah, so
far in the future that then
they've kind of forget about
it's like a broken arm. You
know, I yeah, I broke my arm.
Okay, now because when you
listen, when you listen to it,
you think, wow, we were all
flipping out. We weren't most
people who listened to the show
weren't?
Yeah, you know that. One of the
things that comes out of these
clips is the notion of how does
it COVID transmit, they had this
surface bullcrap, which they
pulled back on a year later.
Hmm, yeah, there's gonna be
COVID on every surface and it's
going to be transmitted via
touch something.
We had the clean Building
Initiative.
Yeah, I was at a grocery store
and some woman was there with
her husband, dole masked up in
there. Looking around where it's
sick and just when people would
walk around when you come and
down the street, they give you a
wide berth. Yeah. And she
touched a loaf of bread. It was
in a cellophane thing and the
guy went Billis don't touch
that. You're gonna kill us.
Don't touch it. Don't touch it.
Don't touch it. Yeah, it was
pretty pathetic.
It's been quite a barrage. Of
course, we're taking this, this
break here. Although, really the
break is we just have to double
up on the work to get it done
before we leave. We just can't
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after we get into Can it get any
worse actually enforce you for
what you played now?
Yeah, all it does is get worse.
He was explained yesterday,
there has been some promise with
hydroxychloroquine is potential
therapy for people who are
infected with Coronavirus. Is
there any evidence to suggest
that as with malaria, it might
be used as a prophylaxis against
COVID-19.
The answer is no. And the
evidence that you're talking
about John is anecdotal
evidence. So as the Commissioner
of FDA and the President
mentioned yesterday, we're
trying to strike a balance
between making something without
potential of an of an effect to
the American people available at
the same time that we do it
under the auspices of a protocol
that would give us information
to determine if it's truly safe
and truly effective. But the
information that you're
referring to specifically is
anecdotal, it was not done in a
controlled clinical trial, so
you really can't make any
definitive statement about it.
More of the country is closing
down tonight trying to contain
the Coronavirus pandemic. New
York State and Illinois have now
joined California and taking
that step, with more states
expected to follow. Meanwhile,
President Trump invoked
emergency powers to move medical
supplies into place as quickly
as possible as US infections top
15,000 With more than 200
deaths, William Bryan begins our
coverage.
In much of California stay at
home orders have already brought
much of public life to a halt.
And today, those orders expanded
statewide. Governor Gavin Newsom
asked the entire state 40
million people to stay home. He
cited in an analysis that half
the state could be infected in
the next eight weeks if more
aggressive moves weren't taken.
So he ordered that nothing but
the most essential activities
continue.
We will have social pressure
that will encourage people to do
the right thing. Just a nod and
look saying hey, maybe you
should reconsider. Just being
out there on the beach. Being 22
strong at a park. It's time for
all of us to recognize as
individuals and as a community.
We need to do more to meet this
moment.
It's unclear how the new orders
will be enforced. But it's one
of the most drastic containment
efforts underway. Across the
country. Another huge effort.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
ordered every employer in his
state to keep their workers at
home
100% of the workforce must stay
home. These are non essential
services. essential services
have to continue to function.
Grocery stores need food
pharmacies need drugs. Your
internet has to continue to work
the water has to turn on when
you turn the faucet so there are
essential services that will
continue to function
and Illinois Governor issued a
Shelter In Place Order effective
tomorrow. These states have seen
a surge in COVID 19 cases and
they along with Washington State
are the hardest hit in the
country. Their hospital systems
are already being stressed and
critical protective supplies are
running low. The White House
offered some forms of relief
today. President Trump said he
had invoked the defense
production act and directed
certain companies to change
their focus and produce supplies
needed for the Coronavirus
fight. And the President also
announced an extension to the
profit teen tax filing deadline.
We're moving it all the way out
to July 15. No interest no
penalties. Your new date will be
July 15
in the move to stem the spring
Ahead of the virus across
countries. He announced the US
and Mexico had agreed to close
down the southern border to non
essential travel. But in what
turned into a testy contentious
press conference, the President
also said several things that
are factually wrong. For
example, He cited the wrong
symptoms for COVID-19.
They are sneezing this
sniffling, they don't feel good.
They have a temperature there a
lot of different things
actual symptoms are fever, but
also dry cough and trouble
breathing, sneezing and
sniffling or not.
He implied that an unproven anti
malaria drug could prevent
infection. There's zero proof of
that one of his top health
officials Dr. Anthony Fauci had
to correct the record moments
later.
The answer is no.
And contrary to all public
health guidance, the president
implied the US didn't need
additional testing for the
virus. You're hearing
very positive things about
testing and it's able to test
millions of people. But we
inherited a broken old, frankly,
a terrible system. We fixed it.
And we've done a great job.
Here is a treatment protocol I
followed as prescribed by my
amazing doctor. It was what's
called a drug cocktail, which
means it's a combination of
different drugs. It consisted of
Tamiflu, which is an antiviral,
the antibiotic azithromycin,
more commonly known as a Z pack,
a glycol pie relate inhaler that
was used to ease breathing and
the inflammation that's commonly
associated with COVID. And
here's what I consider to be the
secret weapon
hydroxychloroquine. This is a
common anti malarial drug that
has been used with great success
in Korea in their fight against
the Coronavirus. And yes, this
is the drug that the President
mentioned the other day. It is
also the drug that Dr. Anthony
Fauci cautioned us about he said
that evidence that the drug was
promising is anecdotal. And that
is correct. It means it was a
study and it's only based on
personal accounts. We'll add my
name to those personal accounts
because I am feeling better
and in the United Kingdom, the
heir to the British throne. 71
year old Prince Charles is the
latest high profile positive
test for Coronavirus. He has
mild symptoms and his self
isolating at his Scotland to
state
hospitals nationwide are
preparing for a surge in
Coronavirus cases, ventilators
to treat the most serious cases
are still in short supply.
Governors and mayors are calling
for more help with equipment and
relief for frontline health care
workers.
We've all been focused so much
on supplies on equipment on
ventilators. We need to focus
increasingly on our health care
personnel. Both everything
they're going through and how we
help them now but the fact also
we're gonna need a lot more
people we're gonna be a lot more
highly trained. Healthcare
professionals get us through
this in the coming weeks.
The United States now has more
confirmed cases of COVID 19 than
any other country. According to
Johns Hopkins University's
Coronavirus Resource Center.
There are now more than 104,000
cases reported in the US and
more than 1700 deaths. More than
230 million people in the US are
now under state and local orders
to stay at home to try to slow
the spread of the Coronavirus.
While 10s of millions of
Americans are under stay at home
orders President Trump left the
White House today and flew to
Norfolk, Virginia.
So I think the first thing is,
how do you get COVID. And I
think that this is really
important. And we've really
learned a lot over the last
couple of weeks to months about
how you get this disease. And so
the overarching theme is
sustained contact with someone
who has this disease, which the
vast majority is people with
fever and aches, or someone who
is about to get the disease. So
someone in the next one to two
days who is going to develop
symptoms of this disease. And so
the way that you get this is the
transmission of the virus almost
exclusively from your hands, to
your face, from your hands to
your face. And so it's either
into your eyes, into your nose,
or into your mouth. So there's a
lot of talk about contact or
getting it through contact hands
to face. There's also a small
thought that it can be
aerosolized that it can kind of
exist a little bit in the air.
The thought at this point is
that you actually have to have
very long sustained contact with
someone and I'm talking about
over 15 to 30 minutes in an
unprotected environment mean
you're in a very closed room
without any type of mask for you
to get it that way. But to very
simply state the overwhelming
majority of people are getting
this by physically touching
someone who has this disease or
will develop it in the next one
to two days, and then touching
their face. And so that actually
I think is incredibly
empowering. And that's as I've
been in the hospital the last
two days. I've the thing that
makes me smile a little bit, is
that I actually know now that I
won't get this disease,
the number of cases in the US
surge to 85,000 people, the
number is far higher because of
the lack of testing. Well, let's
say you have 100 cases, and
let's say, you don't do a
shutdown, then it grows 33% per
day. So you take 100 you get
1000 You get 10,000. It's
exponential growth.
The leading infectious disease
expert on President Trump's
Coronavirus Task Force says he's
really confident that those who
are infected and then recover
from COVID-19 can build up an
immunity to it. Dr. Anthony
Fauci, Director of the National
Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases appeared
remotely on The Daily Show with
Trevor Noah when he was asked
about the possibility of
reinfection from Coronavirus.
This virus acts like every other
virus that we know once you get
infected, get better clear the
virus that you'll have immunity
that will protect you against
reinfection
on Noah show which is practicing
social distancing and being
filmed remotely. Dr. Fauci
caution that his take is not
100% given because the full
study had not taken place yet.
Still, the infectious diseases
expert seems certain, so it's
never 100% but I'd be willing to
bet anything that people who
recover are really protected
against reinfection.
Business Insider reports that
blood tests have been carried
out by Chinese health officials
showing that antibodies have
been developed to fight off the
virus, which is an indication
that the person tested
contracted COVID-19 despite
showing little or no symptoms.
Matt Freeman, a researcher at
the University of Maryland
School of medicine in Baltimore,
told NPR that it's very likely
that those who recover from
Coronavirus develop at least
some level of immunity to it,
and that even if reinfected
later on the effects of the
disease would be much less,
the president said but he
announced that those ships would
be put into action against the
COVID-19 epidemic. He said one
of those ships would be
operational in New York Harbor
by next week. That's nonsense.
It will not be there next week.
And the naval hospital ship The
USNS comfort. You see it right
there on your screen. It has
just docked in New York City.
That ship will be used to house
non Coronavirus patients and
that in itself will free up the
city's hospital care to focus
primarily on those with the
virus. New York Governor Andrew
Cuomo will brief media there at
the top of the hour. We're going
to bring that to you live as
soon as that gets underway.
We begin with breaking news
just coming in this afternoon. A
bizarre story here a train
engineer at the Port of Los
Angeles has been arrested on
suspicion of intentionally
crashing a locomotive near the
Navy hospital ship mercy.
Federal prosecutors say the
train engineer claimed the ship
has an alternate purpose for
being docked there possibly a
government takeover. Eduardo
Moreno of San Pedro allegedly
ran the train at full speed off
the end of the railroad tracks
yesterday in an apparent attempt
to damage the ship. The Mersey,
which was not damaged its dock
here in LA to help ease the
burden on local hospitals that
are busy with Coronavirus
patients,
eventually what we'll have to
have a certificate of who's a
recovered person who's
vaccinated person, you know,
it's really unprecedented. Even
the issue of once you get the
case numbers down, what does
opening up look like? You know
which activities like schools
have such benefit and can be
done in a way that the risk of
transmission is very low. And
which activities like mass
gatherings may be, in a certain
sense more optional. And so
until you're widely vaccinated,
those may not come back at all.
Can I ask you about that, you
know, more states yesterday
started having these stay at
home orders but not all states
do. And even the states that do
some have exemptions Florida
exempts religious services. In
some cases, I thought New
Hampshire had exempted florists.
At one point Arizona had
exempted hair salons at some
point. I
mean, with all due deference to
state Shouldn't there be a
national order and national
lockdown or requirement rather
than this hodgepodge piecemeal
method?
You know, you have a point there
Sivanna. But it's one of those
things that in our country,
there still is that issue of
central government versus the
ability and the right of a state
to make their own decision. But
again, I agree with you when you
see things like some of those
exemptions. I mean, I can't make
any official proclamations here.
But I can say really seriously,
consider those exemptions
appropriate when you think about
what's going on. And I urge the
people at the leadership at the
state level, to really take a
close look at those kinds of
decisions.
Good morning.
We know we're supposed to keep
six feet between each other when
we're out of the house. And of
course that's right. We've known
for weeks wash our hands. Tell
us now about covering our faces.
Well, the CDC says that what
scientists know now given recent
studies is that a lot of people
with Coronavirus lack symptoms,
or they have only mild symptoms,
and they can transmit the virus.
So this means if an infected
person goes out and interacts in
close quarters with others, they
can unknowingly spread it. One
person who pushed to make this
change. Recommending broader use
of masks is the former FDA
commissioner Scott
Gottlieb.
So if you're a person who has
the Coronavirus and you're
mildly symptomatic, you don't
think you're sick or you're
asymptomatic and don't even know
that you have symptoms at all.
In the nation's Coronavirus
epicenter, Governor Andrew Cuomo
said the hospitalization rate
may be slowing
we are flattening the curve by
what we are doing. But that
doesn't mean people should be
any less vigilant. If we stop
what we are doing, you will see
that curve change. That curve is
purely a function of what we do
day in and day out.
In fact, yesterday, New York saw
the highest number of deaths yet
in a single day, nearly 800. In
New York City there have been so
many deaths. Authorities are
using refrigerated trucks to
store remains. And New York's
numbers show that African
Americans and Hispanics they're
dying at higher rates than
whites. For y'all we support
you. Amid the grim work on the
medical front lines signs of
support. Meanwhile, the
University of Washington's
forecasting model one of many
often cited by the White House
lowered its estimate of us
Coronavirus deaths. Today it
projected more than 60,000
Americans would die by early
August down from 84,000. The
University of Washington's model
has been on the low side and
there are questions about the
accuracy of the official death
count. Some say it may overlook
those who die at home without
seeking medical care and those
who die without being tested for
Coronavirus. In Washington, DC
Trump administration officials
say they are planning for life
after the pandemic. But caution
that was still a ways off.
What she's saying is that people
need to maybe make their own
decisions. You know, Sweden, I
was reading that Sweden actually
has that policy. People are
going to dinner you see them in
restaurants, they're out in the
streets. I mean, they did not
have a shutdown policy at all in
Sweden. And I believe the
numbers are going up. Somebody
could check that for me. I mean,
he took a risk the president of
Sweden. I mean, it seems to me
that something like the example
of South Korea, where they shut
down the country completely and
now the numbers are going down,
that that seems to be the way to
go. Maybe North Dakota doesn't
have as many of course, people
as New York who are sick, but
they couldn't leave North
Dakota, they could have the
virus and move to South Dakota
now South Dakota gets an
epidemic. So I think that the
President needs to shut down the
whole country. Of course, he
won't do that, because it
impacts the economy and he knows
that the economy is exactly what
will get him reelected or not
reelected,
we're still in lockdown in
Britain. But first, the
government here adopted the
Swedish version, which meant
that there were fairly limited
restrictions. Then they switched
to the Danish version, which
required an enormous total
shutdown. This is a story of two
very similar Nordic cultures,
you've got a widely differing
approach about how to fight
COVID-19 At a time when most of
the world is shuttered. Sweden
is open for business markets and
shops or trading restaurants or
serving schools or educating the
Swedes advocate limited social
distancing. Their strategy is to
protect the vulnerable while
allowing the virus to spread
through healthy people so they
can develop antibodies. This is
designed to create so called
herd immunity, which
theoretically should result in
most people being safe. Today,
the health authorities announced
a further 96 fatalities. Thank
you very much. Last night
President Trump criticized the
Swedish approach.
They talk about Sweden but
Sweden is suffering very gravely
you know that right Sweden did
that. The herd. They call it the
herd.
The Swedish anti virus campaign
is being led not by the
country's Prime Minister, but by
Anders Tecno. an epidemiologist
with the experience of fighting
Ebola in Africa. He responded to
Mr. Trump this afternoon.
No, we don't share his opinion.
Of course we're suffering.
Everybody in the world is
suffering right now in different
ways. But Swedish healthcare
which I guess is alludes to,
it's very difficult to
understand is taking care of
this in in a very, very good
manner.
Fellow scientists mark is called
despairs of Sweden. Being so out
of step with most of the world.
This, to me sounds a bit like a
madman. We are here playing
Russian roulette with the
Swedish population. King Carl
Gustaf into the disapproval of
government tactics as he urged
suites to cancel the traditional
annual getaway to country cabins
through the FTAs Coronavirus
treatment acceleration program.
19 therapies and treatments are
now being tested and 26 more in
the active planning or clinical
trials. We have 19 therapies
being tested currently. And 26
More are in the active planning
for clinical trials. That's a
big statement. That's a lot
trials for Gilead aids, anti
rival drug remdesivir Continue
and the company has also
expanded emergency use for new
patients getting good early
results by the way the companies
that manufacture hydroxy
Chloroquine are massively
ramping up production. As you
know, many people are
recommending strongly Z Pak be
added to Z Pak and also zinc and
the federal government continues
to build our stockpiles and
distribute millions of doses for
doctors to use as they see fit
for Russia. He golf is prepared
to take on any enemy, including
the Coronavirus. Since early
February. He has been in charge
of this special patrol by the
URL co sacks. They hand out face
masks in their neighborhood of
Yekaterinburg and check people
for signs of a cold. Igor
Gorbachev is an ottoman, one of
the heads of the Euro Cossacks.
People here recognize them by
their uniforms, and some of
their recommendations on how to
stay healthy or just as old
fashioned.
We recommend our traditional
remedies having honey garlic and
raspberry jam and keeping to
basic rules of personal hygiene.
When people come in from
outside, they should wash their
hands and take off their outdoor
clothes because it's decided to
help our government with the
Coronavirus because we care
about the faith of Russia.
The Cossacks carry holy water
along with them for extra
protection against the virus.
These vigilante patrols weren't
authorized by the city. But in
Russia, Cossacks often support
the state security forces and
act as unofficial guardians of
public order. The next morning
calls that teenagers try their
hand at a paramilitary drill.
From the late 18th century,
Cossacks defended the borders of
the Russian Empire. Since the
fall of the Soviet Union cosec
identity has had a revival.
Anyone can now become a Cossack
being patriotic, conservative
and ready to fight is key.
I am expressing my deepest
apologies for getting it wrong
with the beginning of comparing
Coronavirus to influenza. That
was wrong. When I did get right
was telling everybody after I
stated my position to be sure
you listen to Dr. Fauci because
he should always be your North
Star, he will get it right no
matter what. And he has been and
I was convinced would always be
the person we should listen to,
and follow His direction and
nothing more, nothing less.
Again, we are getting lots of
threats on my family's getting
threats. I'd like us to please
ask that you stop and that we
get together. This is a time for
collective effort not for
scapegoating. So I was engaged
in a bit of loser think by
comparing numbers. I had a lot
of numbers in my head, I was
dealing with 100,000 people
dying of opiates and drugs every
year I was dealing with a
billion people infected with h1
N one and 500,040 to 60 year
olds dying of that 24 million
flu cases and 30 to 60,000 dying
of that those numbers were in my
head as I was trying to compare
this outbreak to that, and I
shouldn't have been doing that I
should have been just addressing
this outbreak is what it was I
didn't understand the ferocity
of this virus and it's
contagious. And now my heart and
soul is with New York City,
which is where I spend a lot of
my time, I've signed up for the
New York and California health
court, and I will be part of the
part of the frontline. If I
should be needed. Bill Gates,
thank
you very much for joining us on
BBC Breakfast. I just wonder if
I could first ask you how
important is it now to have a
global response? I'd say
it's critical because the tools
that are going to reduce deaths,
the drugs, you know, that's a
global thing to get those out.
And the thing that will get us
back to the world that we had
before Coronavirus is the
vaccine and getting that out to
all 7 billion people. And so the
efforts to test those to build
the factories to understand you
know, is it safe and ready to go
that's a global problem. And,
you know, so I'm glad you know
that people are coming together
to find where's the best work
and combine that, you know, the
factory will be in a different
country than the sciences in.
This is the whole whole world
working on probably the most
urgent tool that's ever been
needed. And of course, duty. The
administration today has been
criticized for reducing that
support and solidarity in a time
of pandemic and because in order
to enact those reforms, it's
going to need the support of the
other members of the World
Health Organization, other
countries around the world,
and what sort of criticism Nick
directed at the US?
Yeah, the criticism is
everywhere, you saw Bill Gates,
whose foundation is a major
funder of the who say that
cutting the who would be a bad
choice and quote the who is
slowing the spread of COVID 19.
And if that work is stopped, and
no organization can replace
them, the world needs who now
more than ever and Speaker of
the House, Nancy Pelosi said the
president is ignoring global
health experts disregarding
science and undermining the
heroes fighting on the front
line.
So that's praise but that is in
contrast to the administration
criticizing the who for many
months. Why do you think we were
so ill prepared for Coronavirus?
We haven't recognized
as a global community that we
are a global community. And if
we had recognized that and
stepped up to it, we would have
prepared for this. We would have
systems in place, both
monitoring alerting very
quickly. We would have had test
kits available we would have
just you know we plan for things
as nations we plan for
earthquakes, we plan for
tsunamis, we plan for tornadoes,
we didn't plan for disease. And
I don't think that will ever
happen now. Thank God,
California will make pandemic
relief payments of $500 apiece
to 150,000 migrants who are
living in the state without
documentation. Democratic
Governor Gavin Newsom said today
that they do essential work and
pay millions of dollars in
taxes. Almost 40% of the money
will come from private
contributions, the migrants are
not eligible for federal
payments.
Now, you know, I've seen you
referred to a little bit
recently as the love gov. And
I'm wondering if that's bleeding
into your demeanor at all,
making you a little soft on the
President, that you don't want
to really criticize him because
you need him and now's not a
time for fighting. But don't you
have to balance that with
calling him out? If he's doing
things that you don't think are
great for the people of your
state to be hearing and
experiencing? Love go? I've
always I've always been a soft
guy. I am the love girl. I'm a
cool dude and loose mood. You
know that? I just say let it go.
Just go with the flow, baby. You
know, you can't control any
water off a duck's first time.
And yeah, I think yeah, wow.
Never said any. Look, I have
known you my whole life. All
right. Well, that's your
opinion. Yeah. Well, you should
listen better listening works.
I'm not always taught. What was
the question? Oh, I remember the
question. yourself on I am on a
situation. Yeah. Well, that's
your characterization. First of
all right. So it was stated as a
question because you have a
characterization into that as a
premise. I am working with the
president cooperatively, it's
very important that the federal
government and state government
work together during this time,
I have to do my best job for the
people of this state. You cannot
say, Look, I've been the
governor in this country as the
been the most critical of the
president up until now. And by
the way, there is no governor
that he's been more critical of
than me. So nobody's going to
say I gone too soft on the
president. We're working
together to help the state.
That's what's important. Now, no
politics, no personality, no
ego, no ego. It's not about you.
It's not about me, it's about we
and getting through this. And
that's my singular focus.
There'll be a data time for
everything. But this is not the
time and place.
And nobody is more complicit in
that than Fox News. And let us
just for all of you for both of
you. I want to put a graphic of
some of the recent inaccuracies
from President Trump and we're
doing this explicitly because
this is a matter of life and
death. And there's no
pussyfooting around this sorry.
This is not a political issue.
It's a science issue. It's a
life and death issue. So on
April 7, President Trump says on
hydrochloric chlorine, I really
think it's a great thing to try.
This is Chloroquine. factcheck
clinical trials. Trials are
underway but the FDA and top
public health officials have not
endorsed Trump's view that the
drug can be taken safely.
March 30, we've done more tests
by far than any country in the
world by far factcheck true that
the US has done more tests than
any other country but on a per
capita basis. It's way behind
Germany, Italy and South Korea.
March 26. On the pandemic, this
was something that nobody has
ever thought could happen to
this country. factcheck US
intelligence community and
public health experts have
warned for years that the
country was at risk from a
pandemic. experts also warn that
the country would face shortages
of critical medical equipment.
Yeah, it's not only been the
administration but a lot of
critics around the world has
said simply the who is too
swayed by China. Let me take you
back to about New Years. This is
the time when local doctors in
Wuhan, China, were telling
hospital administrators that
hey, this is something new, and
there's human to human
transmission because we're
getting sick. But the hospitals
and the local government covered
that up or at the very least
silenced those local doctors. So
on December 31, the Wuhan
government released a statement,
the investigation so far has
found no obvious person to
person transmission, and no
medical personnel have been
infected. And the who basically
parroted that language January
5, based on the preliminary
information from the Chinese
investigation team, no evidence
of significant human to human
transmission, and no health care
worker infections have been
reported. officials who are
talking to me say that the who
should have known better and
should not have accepted Chinese
language.
But Nick weren't the Trump
administration and the W H. O
praising China's response back
in back in January.
Yeah, that's that's a great
point. And this is really key.
So let's take a listen to the
director general of who talking
in January the day after the who
declared this a global
emergency, but also President
Trump praising China,
who continues to have a
confidence in China's capacity
to control the outbreak.
I spoke with President Xi, we
had a great talk. He's working
very hard, I have to say he's
working very, very hard. And if
you can count on the reports
coming out of China, that spread
has gone down quite a bit.
And Judy, obviously, the
President's language about China
has changed. And the US really
does want to reform who but they
need international support to do
so. And it's not clear that they
have that.
Just like with ventilators,
we're building now the best
ventilators. Just like with
ventilators, our testing is
getting better and better. I
took the first test. The first
test was not pleasant. This was
not a pleasant thing. I said,
You got to be kidding to the
doctor. You got to be kidding.
Up, you know, and then we hang
out, right? And it goes down
here. And then we'll wiggle it
around here under your eye. And
then we'll pull it out. And
we'll say I said no, that's it's
there's no way that can happen.
Is that the way it goes? Sure.
This was a very unpleasant test.
And then I was tested a few
weeks later with the new tests
that just came out the Abbott,
where they just touch your nose,
basically, and they put it in a
machine. And literally a few
minutes later, they tell you if
you're fine. And I was lucky in
both cases
at Pine Street in in Boston,
South End, universal COVID-19
testing leading to new stunning
evidence about the asymptomatic
spread of the virus. It was
like a double knockout punch
because the number of positives
was shocking to us. But then the
fact that 100% of the positives
had no symptoms was equally
shocking. Dr. Jim
O'Connell, president of Boston
Healthcare for the Homeless
program says broad scale testing
was carried out at this shelter
about a week and a half ago
because of a small cluster of
cases. The findings now actively
being examined by the CDC 146
positive cases about 36% of the
shelter's population, all
asymptomatic,
it probably frankly raises more
questions than it answers. Pine
Street
President Linda Downey says the
results prove the previous
screening method of only testing
those showing symptoms to be
ineffective.
I think there are so many
asymptomatic people right now
that if we could do universal
testing, the number may look
close to this. I don't think we
know the universal
testing at Pine Street in and
testing of the homeless at BMC.
Bringing Boston south end to
number one in the city with the
highest rate of COVID 19
infection of the 146 people at
Pine Street in who tested
positive health officials tell
us only one needed hospital care
and many have not experienced
any symptoms. We also
one of the most important
studies that's been done just
this week came out at Stanford
University where they tested the
antibodies in Santa Clara
County, California. And so these
are people who have the
antibodies from the Coronavirus.
Their thought is that they had
acquired the virus many of them
may not have known that they had
had it but they look to see how
prevalent those antibodies were
in that county, and they
determined that between 50 and
80 times more people in Santa
Clara had the antibodies than
had actually tested positive in
Santa Clara County.
They one on one could not help
but notice that the only shot
that was opened on the entire
length of the shores Elisa in
Paris was a chocolate shop. Even
his entire countries
have shut down to prevent the
spread of COVID 19. essential
services around the world remain
open. And what a country
considers essential tells us a
lot about its culture.
All the luxury and fromagerie G
shops butchers and wine
merchants and indeed, shocker
Lachey that still exists in
which give France still so much
of its character all these shops
have been given exemptions and
can stay open. And the French I
have to say are all mighty glad
of the fact
in the US what counts as an
essential service depends on
where you live in states have
made controversial choices like
gun stores after the Trump
administration released guidance
supporting classifying gun shops
as essential states have allowed
firearm businesses to remain
open and sales have surged to
record levels. marijuana
dispensaries both medical and
recreational have also been
allowed to remain open in the
states where they're legal like
Colorado, they have adopted new
social distancing measures like
curbside pickup.
For the past few weeks, all
restaurants bars, clubs and pubs
have been closed here in
Australia, but off licenses or
liquor stores, they remain
open so you can go buy a drink,
but you'll have to have it at
home. toy shops are an
interesting gray area. Some are
closed and others are open to a
limited number of customers at
any given time. And I know what
you're thinking, why are toys
crucial? Well, the Prime
Minister Scott Morrison did say
himself that his wife had to go
and buy their children a whole
bunch of jigsaw puzzles because
they were essential for his
family. They changed the way
they live in the next few
months.
another country's bans on what
many would consider essential
for sparking
outrage.
Most people who know a bit about
the Philippines are aware of the
iconic Jeepney bus but there is
another form of essential
transport here called the
tricycle. They're a bit like
Batman and robins that bike but
last month strict quarantine
measures placed on the country's
main island Luzon meant all
public transport was banned.
However, a popular young local
mayor in Manila Vico sotto allow
trikes to be used by medical
workers but the next day
Philippine President Rodrigo
Duterte. He warned local
officials not to break
quarantine rules but now
President Duterte his daughter
Sarah, mayor of Davao City has
also allowed trikes to be used.
Her exemption being the city
doesn't fall on the loose on
quarantine measures who would
have thought the humble tricycle
could be so political.
For the first time in the
history of India, its extensive
railway network considered a
lifeline for the country has
been halted. But porting the
strength of carry more than 23
million passengers every day has
had a Fallout, lots of daily
regen as have been stranded in
the cities without money, food
or shelter, the government's now
making arrangements for them.
Interestingly, the information
technology sector has been
exempted from what is otherwise
a stringent shutdown, with a
view to keep networks that are
crucial to communication,
banking and governance running
for for more on the origins of
the Coronavirus, Trump's
response and where do we go from
here we're joined by as wala
just who has long study diseases
that cross the animal human
divide, and who for years has
been sounding the alarm about
upcoming pandemic. Dr. Peter das
shack is with us. He's a disease
ecologist, the president of eco
Health Alliance, a nonprofit
that works globally to identify
and study our vulnerabilities to
emerging infectious disease. Eco
Health Alliance has been
studying Corona viruses in China
since the end of the SARS
outbreak in 2004. This
Coronavirus is really called
SARS to he's joining us from the
Hudson River Valley in New York.
Welcome to Democracy Now. It's
great to have you with us. So if
you can unpack what we just
heard, it goes to the issue of
the origins of the Coronavirus,
especially interesting that
President Trump is raising this
now as he's being seriously
attacked for the United States
lack of action and delay and so
he is striking out at as many
sectors as he can but talk about
the origins of the Coronavirus
Dr. Dash check.
You're good to be here long
first the the idea that this
virus escaped from the lab is
just pure baloney. It's simply
not true. I've
been working with that lab for
15 years, and the samples
collected were collected by me
and others In collaboration with
our Chinese colleagues, they are
some of the best scientists in
the world. There was no viral
isolate in the lab there was no
cultured virus that this
anything related to SAS
Coronavirus to so it's just not
possible.
And might you say it's really a
politicization of the origins of
a pandemic and it's really
unfortunate.
Tonight the streets of New York
City remain virtually empty. But
on the heels of the President's
new three phased plan to reopen
America, some states are slowly
inching back in tonight beaches
in Jacksonville, Florida will
reopen, but no more than 10 in a
crowd.
First we inform the people what
the rules are, then we warn if
they don't comply and then we
take additional action if
necessary if they still don't
comply.
Texas will allow some retail to
go but not permitted in store
shopping. Minnesota will allow
golf courses to open this
weekend. Wisconsin's governor
said Lawn Care businesses might
be able to operate and Idaho
will allow non essential
businesses like craft dog
groomers to open their doors.
Still, some workers are
concerned. Andy Revelle works on
Navy ships in Virginia and let
us strike this week after one of
his co workers died.
We're literally scared it's like
the ship is like haunted by a
ghost. It's everywhere. And we
just that's what the environment
we work in all day.
And it's debate over reopening
continues news of treatment
progress. Gilead, the maker of
the drug remdesivir saw a surge
in its stock price on news
reports that the drug helped
COVID-19 patients in Chicago,
New York with 600 more deaths in
the last 24 hours. It's still a
hot spot. The city announced its
canceling outdoor concerts until
June. But the governor today
said he knew patients was
wearing thin
the situation we're in now is
unsustainable. People can't stay
in their homes. For this length
of time, they can't stay out of
work. You can't keep the economy
closed forever. You just can't.
The I think when we talk about
this idea of reopening society,
you know, only in America. Does
the President when the President
tweets about liberation. Does he
mean go back to work when we you
know, have this discussion about
going going back or reopening? I
think a lot of people should
just say no, we're not going
back to that. We're not going
back to working 70 hour weeks
just so that we could put food
on the table and not even feel
any sort of semblance of
security in our lives.
There have been some reports of
animals testing positive for the
Coronavirus. Doubt appears
health officials in the US have
finally confirmed cases. The US
Department of Agriculture and
the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention says they found
two pet cats in New York state
that have tested positive for
Coronavirus. She'll say it
appears the animals can get the
virus from humans, or there's no
indication animals can transmit
it.
The death toll from the virus in
the US is now more than 46,000
people. Officials in California
trace two of those deaths to
February.
I think what these deaths tell
us is that community
transmission had arrived much
earlier than we were able to
detect it. And I think it really
highlights the importance of the
shelter in place and protecting
the community and preventing
hospitalizations and deaths from
COVID-19. Good evening and thank
you for joining us there are two
major headlines as we come on
the air tonight putting
scientists at odds with the
Trump administration.
Researchers behind one of the
leading Coronavirus models one
that the White House has
repeatedly cited now says most
of the country should not
consider lifting stay at home
waters until the end of May. The
new model comes as protests to
reopen are growing and just as
some Southern Governors are
already loosening their
restrictions. Meantime tonight
the scientist in charge of
coordinating the government
search for Coronavirus vaccine
says he has been abruptly ousted
from his job because of what he
calls politics and cronyism. Dr.
Rick bright the head of a little
known agency called BARDA says
he was sidelined after refusing
to push for what he calls quote,
on demand access to
hydroxychloroquine. That is the
drug that President Trump has
repeatedly mentioned as a
treatment for COVID 19 Even
though it hasn't been approved
for that news. Now all of this
as the death toll in the US has
now passed 46,000.
Beginning this week, new EMT
guidelines across the state of
New York paramedics are not to
make life saving attempts to
unresponsive patients
essentially do not revive in
order to protect first
responders from Coronavirus
exposure. Still EMTs in New York
City say they have yet to adopt
the guidelines.
But then we also talked about
removing information that is
problematic and of course
anything that is medically
unsubstantiated, so people
saying like take vitamin C, you
know, take Tumeric like those
are all will cure you. Those are
the examples of things that
would be a violation of our
policy. Anything that would go
against World Health
Organization recommendations.
would be a violation of our
policy. And so remove is another
really important part of our
policy.
Well, there are many, you know,
the revolving door problems with
all of our federal agencies and
and all of our state agencies.
There's an Amana that is very
well documented called agency
captcha, which is a phenomenon
or a dynamic by which the agency
that that's supposed to protect
the American public from bad
drugs or from collusion or what
have you ultimately becomes a
subsidiary or a sock puppet for
the industry that it's supposed
to regulate it. And indeed,
that's what we see with the CDC,
the head of CDC from 2002 to
2009, as you point out, as Julie
Gerberding, she did a number of
billion dollar favors for Merck,
she's silenced a whistleblower,
who was William Thompson, who is
still as I had to add at CDC,
who wanted to tell the public
that testing of Merck vaccines,
oh, that, particularly the MMR
vaccine was causing autism in
black boys and other people who
got the vaccine on time and that
the scientists had been ordered
to destroy data showing that
fact, and that they went ahead
and publish this body lying
about it to the American people
and the physicians and Julie
Gerberding did a huge favor to
Merck by having that scientists
punished and then silence she,
she arranged for Merck to get
the monopoly to the multibillion
dollar MMR vaccine and to make
sure Glaxo could not sell its
vaccine in this country. She
approved the the HPV vaccine
Gardasil, which is another Merck
product. She approved the
chickenpox vaccine and the
silenced whistleblower Gary
Goldman is another doctor who
said this vaccine is going to
cause shingles epidemic Merck,
that not only got the chickenpox
vaccine, but it also was able to
market a shingle of actress and
she retired in 2009. And she was
made president of Merck vaccine
division in 2010, with a salary
of about $2.5 million, I think
about $5 million in stock
options. CDC is actually a
vaccine company.
We're also testing disinfectants
readily available, we've tested
bleach, we've tested isopropyl
alcohol on the virus
specifically in saliva or in
respiratory fluids. And I can
tell you that bleach will kill
the virus in five minutes.
isopropyl alcohol will kill the
virus in 30 seconds. And that's
with no manipulation, no
rubbing, just bring it on
leaving a go you rub it and it
goes away even faster. We're
also looking at other
disinfectants, specifically
looking at the COVID-19 virus in
saliva. This is not the end of
our work as we continue to
characterize this virus and
integrate our findings into
practical applications to
mitigate exposure and
transmission.
It's been called a landmark
collaboration. The World Health
Organization heads of government
and research bodies came
together to coordinate the fight
against COVID-19. They've
pledged to work together to find
a vaccine and make sure everyone
has equal access to treatments
and diagnostic tests. But the
United States isn't taking part.
President Donald Trump has
accused the who of mishandling
the crisis. We'll bring in our
guests in a moment to discuss
the challenges ahead first, this
report from our diplomatic
editor, James bass, it's just
the place you would have
expected in previous times to
have seen us leadership, a
global crisis, and world leaders
coming together with a response,
not the idea of this event to
coordinate the search for
vaccine testing and treatments
for COVID 19. And to make sure
all are widely available, the
world needs these tools. And it
needs them fast.
Past experience has taught us
that even when tools are
available. They have been not
been equally available to all we
cannot allow that to happen.
A world free of COVID-19
requires the most massive public
health efforts in history. Data
must be shared production
capacity, prepared resources,
mobilize communities engaged and
politics set asides. I know we
can do it. I know we can put
people first
leaders spoke from all regions
of the world. Technically
bringing them all together was a
bit of a challenge. Your
Excellency you have? Can you
hear me now? Yes, yes, we can
hear you. Okay, Germany, one of
four members of the g7 group of
countries that will represent
it.
We're now going to continue to
mobilize All countries of the g7
and the G 20. For them to back
this initiative, I hope that we
will be able to reconcile this
initiative with China and the US
because the fight against COVID
19 as a common good for
humanity. There shouldn't be any
divisions between countries. We
need to join forces to win this
battle.
Americans considering how
polarized we're amazingly United
right now, 98% of Democrats and
82% of Republicans support the
social distancing 90% of
Americans complete bipartisan
consensus, believe that if we
loosen too much, there'd be a
second wave. 76% of Americans
say even if their governor did
loosen, they wouldn't go out.
And so, to me, the big story
here is we're sort of hanging
together through this.
Two women Carmelita Barella and
Rosetta Shabazz have been
arrested on federal charges that
connection to using a cop as a
weapon during a robbery back on
April 6 2020, inside at
Walgreens in San Francisco's
tenderloin neighborhood, FBI
Special Agent in Charge, John
Bennett,
when they were approached by
store personnel. They began to
cough, you know, pretty, pretty
aggressively and then they, they
told everybody they had COVID.
And so in their own words, they
were they were telling people
they were positive for for this
fight with
FBI investigators say these
crimes are part of a disturbing
trend nationwide,
my executive order to stay at
home that was issued last month,
is set to expire on April the
30th. That executive order has
done his job to slow the growth
of COVID-19. And I will let it
expire as scheduled. Now, it's
time to set a new course, a
course that responsibly opens up
business in Texas. Obviously,
not all businesses can open all
at once. A more strategic
approach is required to ensure
that we don't reopen only to
have to close down again. We
will open Texas businesses in
phases. Phase one begins this
Friday, May 1, all retail
stores, restaurants, movie
theaters and malls can reopen
May the first. Now to minimize
the spread of COVID-19. During
phase one. On the advice of
doctors, I am limiting occupancy
to no more than 25% the extent
to which this order opens up
businesses in Texas supersedes
all local orders. If phase one
works well containing COVID-19
Phase two will expand that
occupancy to 50%. This order
allows these businesses to
reopen we can go over there over
there
in this situation, the problem,
not the solution. Cheap recorded
to show those social media,
you're doing the wrong thing.
I'm just trying to save your
butt. Okay, I don't hold them
you get the promotion.
Americans no Joe Biden saw this
coming all along and warned
people in January about what was
going to happen here.
Opinions fall along partisan
lines, but it does include 55%
of independents who say they
would prefer that Biden be
handling the crisis. And 51% of
Americans want Joe Biden
handling the economy. 44% say
they'd rather it be Trump Willy
Willy. That's pretty. Pretty
remarkable. Number two, if you
look at Joe Biden on the
economy, more Americans prefer
Joe Biden handling the economy,
Donald Trump's calling card, but
he's always bragged about saying
this is the difference between
him and other Republicans or him
and Democrats. He knows how to
do things. Well, no, actually
Americans have seen his failures
in developing a strong testing
regimen has kept this country
closed longer. And if you look
at his own doctors, if you look
at his own scientist, if you
listen to what nurses what
medical providers say they all
say and by the way, CEOs are
saying it too, we can't reopen
our economy until we strengthen
our testing.
Clooney I'm not a doctor, and
I've never pretended to be a I
don't have a fold up bicycle,
for example, I don't feel the
need to wear scrubs in the
street. And indeed, I've never
voted labour. I don't read the
guardian. But let me introduce
you to a scientist I think we
should all be asking questions
about his name is Professor Neil
Ferguson of Imperial College. He
runs models, and not beautiful
women models, statistical
models, where he tells people
how many deaths he thinks
there's going to be from a
pandemic or other crisis. Neil
Ferguson says lifting the
lockdown could cost 100,000
lives in the UK, and he's the
guy that government are
listening to right now. Which is
why we're still under this
infernal house arrest that
everybody seems to be clapping
their frying pans about. Let's
look at some of Neil Ferguson's
work in the past and see how
accurate it's been. For bird
flu. He estimated using his very
sophisticated models, there
might be 200 million deaths
globally. There were in fact,
292 when it came to swine flu,
Professor focus and use his
brilliant models, and he
estimated there could be 65,000
deaths in the UK. There were in
fact 457. Again, with Mad Cow
disease, a disease that I can
relate to between 50 and 50,000
deaths in the UK, he said, And
the correct answer was 177. And
for COVID, he came out and said
there may be 500,000 deaths.
He's now saying there may be
100,000 If lockdown ends. And of
course we have no way of knowing
right now, how many deaths there
will be. But it seems that Neil
Ferguson is prone to
exaggeration. He's kind of like
Gemma Collins on hormone
replacement therapy. Other
scientists have challenged his
thinking as well.
Unsurprisingly, they say at best
his models are crude estimations
containing serious errors. So
questions remain. Why aren't the
mainstream media asking these
questions? Why are we listening
to this man who's about as
accurate as my five year old
trying to be standing up?
Everybody's saying it I see from
CEOs to nurses. And so I think
that's partly what you're
saying. And those poll numbers
that show Americans prefer Joe
Biden to Donald Trump when it
comes to handling the economy.
And through all the chaos as you
know, President Trump has
basically staked his presidency
on a strong economy. It's where
he always goes when he's in
trouble. Look at the
unemployment numbers, look at
the stock market, as those have
collapsed over the last couple
of months. He no longer can hang
his hat on that. And you're
seeing some of that in those
numbers in terms of opening up
the economy. That same NPR poll
Mika was talking about asks
whether it's a good or a bad
idea to resume certain normal
activities without further
testing. 91% of Americans say it
is a bad idea to allow people to
attend sporting events. 85%
agree schools should remain
close 80% thing where I think
restaurants should not allow
customers to dine in and 65% say
it's a bad idea to allow people
to return to work without
testing Mika this Coronavirus
with all of his followers and
let them all hug each other and
kiss each other and have a big
big rally. Big cocktail of
disinfectant yeah and all take
disinfected
and all drop dead
there you have it. There's your
COVID for the this is the
beginning. There's more clips
because it keeps going on for
another year.
We can just we can we can take a
vacation every year. And just
tell you well here's what
happened with COVID Everybody
was perfect. Don't worry it'll
it'll crank
out another years where the
COVID clean every wanted.
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