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April 3rd, 2022 • 2h 20m

1439: COVID Retrospective

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Adam curry Jhansi Devorah and Sunday April 3 2022. This is
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your award winning give on nation media assassination
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episode 1439. This is no agenda,
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rewinding the
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COVID clock and broadcasting almost live from the heart of
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the Texas hill country here in FEMA Region number six in the
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morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry,
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and from Northern Silicon Valley where it's my birthday week. I'm
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Jhansi Dvorak.
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My my voice is still cracking. Long, long, long. COVID
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continues long. COVID long COVID
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It's hardly noticeable. Yeah,
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it was better on Thursday. And I just cracked. So here we are.
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We're almost live. It's kind of like we're really here. You of
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course are in the Seychelles wish. Have you ever been to
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Seychelles?
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No, but I've been told by a couple of guys who do a lot of
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traveling. They've been all over the world. They say the
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Seychelles is the best. Yeah, I've never been unfortunate. I
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don't know if it's true anymore. This was like 20 years 20 plus
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years ago wasn't the
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Seychelles the one that was going to tip over from climate
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change.
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It was one of the islands but I don't think it was that that was
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gonna say show I was gonna drown national idiot. Yeah.
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So we're taking now. I am hoping that I got the timing of this
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right. The reason for this break is because we you and I haven't
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had a break in a year.
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Year and a half to almost two years. I think it was two years
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not away with Tina and I went away. We had a break in 2020. Do
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we have one in 2012? I can't remember if we had one. No,
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Bolden must have been I know we didn't have one is 2020 You
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can't remember when you last one on vacation then it was a while
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ago? Yeah. So I hoped I timed this before the the the food
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shortages and the financial collapse. And I think we did
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pretty well by timing it after the Ukrainian war and COVID.
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We've done pretty well.
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We'll see if you can't get back. We'll know the reason why.
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But they're definitely gonna kick that into high gear.
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They're definitely COVID is coming back. We have all the
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evidence. They're going to do something it's gonna be testing
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gold dragon to get much traction, they got to find
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something else to do dig their work. They can't bring it.
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Democrats can't bring it back because they're gonna they
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already know they got troubles for the midterms. Yeah, they
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can't take a chance on pissing off everybody. They would bring
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it back maybe to get to a mail in ballots so they can scam that
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again. Right
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now. They can't they can't drag it out. We'll see. In the
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meanwhile, the art for the last episode 1438 Taunton, Neil, I
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believe was clearly perfect because you called the end of
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the COVID pandemic, April 2022. And here we are,
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seems to be over perfect timing, and the war should be over by
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the time we get back.
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Until then, what have you put together for us for this
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is a show of COVID clips only. And I've got a couple hours
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worth in it's like all the stuff from the beginning with the
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first clip when we first met COVID first appeared on the
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scene right through the goal two or three weeks, so it has
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flattened the curve. And I got the boat coming out to bring in
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the Mercy Ships. Oh,
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I forgot about those. Yeah, the hospital ships,
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ships, they didn't send one person to and they have
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ventilators we need more ventilator so we can kill more
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people. And they there's just a lot of good stuff and a lot of
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has been forgotten but I think this will bring back a few
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memories
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now as I was listening to the next week. Next episode. So next
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next ship next
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I'm losing it the next episodes clips, which will be the best of
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end of show mixes it's really incredible what the human brain
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has had I'm sure you'd notice this what the human brain has
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had to endure in the past two and a half years of bullshit
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being injected directly through our retinas into our brains.
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Yeah, to good thing we're doing this show I don't know where
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we'd be I mean it's not
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it's not just okay we had a virus and then there was
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problems. I mean, all the stuff it's amazing to think and I
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think people will realize this when they listen to it how much
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bull crap was thrown at your brain and your amygdala non stop
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Yeah, it's pretty nonstop that was the problem I think either
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way Ross remember the one good thing was that out here because
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of the way they structured the shutdown stay at home laws. They
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had this media exemption thing which included podcasters so I'm
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out and about but their traffic down to nothing there's nobody
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on the roads and driving around
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beauty rate and this so these clips are just the clips not us.
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I'm sorry, the clips the this specialist just the clips not
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us.
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Yeah, you The clips love it. And please note there are no vaccine
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clips in this batch because this is from January 2020 to May
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1 2020 It's just unbelievable.
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Let's kick it off COVID Best of ever go.
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We will show you inside Georges lugar laboratory which detects
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and prevents the spread of dangerous diseases. But pro
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Kremlin media claim it spreads disease experimenting on humans
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with cancer, the Zika virus killer mosquitoes and plagues of
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stinkbugs. I asked the laboratories director whether
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there was any truth to these narratives,
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but we are not making Zika virus in this operator, the killer
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mosquito about the laboratory is the the level of the laboratory
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is so high that we can diagnose here the Zika Ebola creamier
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Congo and many many infectious diseases. No killer blocky
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making this virus is here.
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No Marmorated Stink Bug coming from the lluvia laboratory but
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the Marmorated Stink Bug. I'm not a scientist. But what I have
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been seeing here suggests that this laboratory is exactly what
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the Georgian government says it is. The Russian claims that
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what's going on at the lugar lab is far more sinister, haven't
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been supported by any hard evidence in taxes.
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Authorities are warning that a traveler with measles may have
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unknowingly exposed others across the country that come
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that new alert comes amid an increase in measles cases
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nationwide. Sam Brock is in Austin with the latest.
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Tonight an urgent health alert from Texas after a passenger
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infected with measles passed through the Austin Airport last
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week after traveling in Europe. It's Travis county's first
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detected case in 20 years.
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We're trying to get on top of this share as much information
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as we can to try to really contain this
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the passenger left from Austin International Airport on
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December 17, but then proceeded to go to airports in Chicago and
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Virginia, meaning that other passengers and not one, not two,
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but three different airports were potentially exposed this
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after separate cases in LA X and Denver international airports
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earlier this month. But health experts say Austin is at greater
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risk because of low vaccination rates of children.
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Austin unfortunately, is one of the epicenters of the anti
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vaccine movement in America. A startling
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study earlier this year estimates one infected person
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could lead to an outbreak of more than 400 cases in Austin,
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with nearly 1300 confirmed cases of the measles nationwide this
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year more than three times the number last year the highly
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contagious virus can linger in the air for hours. Symptoms
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include cough, rash, fever and sore eyes. Tonight doctors say
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it's another stark reminder to get vaccinated. Sam Brock, NBC
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News Austin,
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two year old Jude McGee, 26 year old newlywed Katie mutt
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question. Gianna cabas sagg, a four year old little girl they
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all died of the flu, and they all had flu shots. There's no
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question you should get a flu shot. Last flu season the flu
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killed at least 36,000 people so this shot could literally save
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your life. But it's far from perfect.
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Even on a good year, influenza. The effectiveness of the vaccine
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is about 60% On a bad year. It's as
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low as 10%.
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Do we need to make a better flu vaccine?
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You know, we really absolutely do.
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In September, President Trump signed an executive order noting
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that the current system for making flu shots has critical
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shortcomings. The order pledges to modernize the process. The
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first step, stop using eggs to make flu vaccine. They grow the
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virus in the eggs like the eggs you eat for breakfast, and then
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they kill the virus and put it in a vaccine. But sometimes the
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virus changes inside the egg so it doesn't end up matching the
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flu that's out there spreading among people. That's why some
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companies like this one have figured out ways to grow the flu
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virus without using eggs. Trump's executive order is
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designed to encourage more of this technology and something
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even bigger, something researchers have been working on
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for years of flu vaccine you would get only once in your life
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instead of every year. A new
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viral outbreak from China is spreading around the world.
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Countries like the US Japan and Thailand have confirmed cases.
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And on Wednesday, a Chinese health official has said the
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virus is adapting and mutating. So what exactly do we know about
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this flu like virus? Your health officials now say it can be
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passed from person to person. So far hundreds of cases have been
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confirmed and several people have died. Symptoms include
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fever, coughing and difficulty breathing and can lead to
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pneumonia. The exact origins is unknown though Chinese officials
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have linked the outbreak to a seafood market in the city of
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Wuhan. All of the deaths so far have been in that central
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Chinese city. It's also home to a Foxconn plant, which is a key
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supplier to Apple. And it's hosting Olympic qualifiers for
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women's soccer next month. thing to look out for next will be
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what happens over Chinese New Year, and whether Fear takes its
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toll on the global economy. Millions of people are preparing
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to travel around China and abroad for the New Year
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celebrations, raising the risk of a wider contagion. Fear of a
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pandemic has also sent chills through the markets, investors
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are comparing it to China's 2003 SARS outbreak that killed nearly
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800 people, and by some estimates caused $40 billion in
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global economic losses. Aviation and luxury goods stocks have
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already been hit particularly hard with concerns it could
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deter Chinese consumers from traveling or shopping.
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What we know and I think this is one of the big points out and I
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remember this covering the SARS outbreak and the MERS outbreak
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at some point. The question is, is this something that is just
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spreading from animals to humans as it seemed to be in central
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China, people visiting the seafood and an exotic pet
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markets? Or is this something that is spreading from human to
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human? And we now have evidence that it is spreading from human
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to human? Seems that 14 healthcare workers that were
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taking care of this patient in Wuhan, were infected and we also
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know people who never visited Wuhan are now carrying the
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virus. So that human to human transmission is what this
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meeting tomorrow this public health meeting is going to be
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all about. Really scary.
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I mean, or at least it sounds scary to the lay person.
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And so what's keeping public health officials up at night
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most?
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Well, you know, I think immediately what you think of
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when you hear this Coronavirus, and we have an image of what
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this looks like. You think a SARS you remember this I mean I
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covered this 2003 You think of MERS by the way quick
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microbiology Coronavirus, that's the crown on the outside, you'll
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always be able to identify this type of virus. They're mostly an
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animal's Allison seven times have we ever documented they
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jumped from animals to humans and only two of those times what
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didn't end up being a really significant infection, SARS and
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MERS so what's keeping public health officials up at night is
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is this going to go the way of SARS and MERS was SARS was a
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nearly two dozen countries 8000 People infected 800 people died.
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Is it going to go that way? Or is it going to be more of a more
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innocuous gets people sick but people don't really die? We
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don't know yet. And that's what they're going to try and
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determine look at all this data and figure that out.
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Found a new virus that has killed nine people and infected
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hundreds more in China has now spread to the US. A man in his
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30s from Washington State is the first person in America to be
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diagnosed with Coronavirus. It's called the man returned to the
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Seattle area last week from a trip to Wuhan. That's a city in
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central China where the outbreak began. Right now that patient is
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in isolation in a hospital north of Seattle.
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Our number one priority is to complete the identification of
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all the patients contacts, reach out to the contacts and monitor
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their health. We also want to
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enhance screening is already in place at three US airports with
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two more being added this week. Are Dr. Tara Narula is you're at
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the table with more on this story. You hear about it. You
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see the mask. It's very disturbing. How worried should
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we be? Yeah, and
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what is it? Exactly?
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So this is a form of Coronavirus. We've known about
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Coronavirus before this is a new strain. This is a virus that's
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found worldwide. It causes typically a mild or moderate
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respiratory illness but it can be more severe. We saw that with
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SARS and MERS which are also forms of Coronavirus. So
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certainly the CDC is recommending that we be cautious
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about this that we'd be proactive because it is a new
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strain. It is contagious. So interestingly, they think it
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does circulate in animals, and occasionally can make the jump
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from animals to humans, which is what they think happened in this
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case, because the initial cases were surrounding an area of
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market a seafood animal market in the Wuhan area. And so they
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think that it started in animals, it was transmitted to
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humans. And now they're saying that, in fact that is spread
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between human to humans. Bottom line,
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we don't have to worry about this one, right. Well, I
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you know, obviously you need to take it seriously and do the
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kinds of things that the CDC and the Department of Homeland
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Security are doing. But this is not a major threat for the
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people in the United States. And this is not something that the
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citizens of the United States right now should be worried
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about.
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It's great to see. Thank you for joining us again in Davos. We've
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done this before, right think was a couple of years ago.
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Before we get started with with we're going to talk about the
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economy a lot of other things. A The CDC has identified a case of
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Coronavirus in Washington state the Wu Han strain of this if you
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remember SARS that affected GDP travel related effects. Do you?
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Have you been briefed by the CDC? The words about a pandemic
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at this point? Oh,
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not at all. And we're, we have a totally under control. It's one
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person coming in from China. And we have it under control. It's
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going to be just fine.
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Okay. President Xi. There's just some some talk in China that
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that maybe the transparency isn't everything that it's going
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to be you trust that we're going to know everything we need to
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know from China?
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I do I do. I have a great relationship with President Xi.
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We just signed probably the biggest deal ever made that
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terms. It certainly has the potential to be the biggest deal
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ever made. And it was very interesting for the time, let's
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get without it done. And no, I do. I think the relationship is
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very, very good.
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It may take quite some time before we know the full economic
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impact of the one virus but the disruption is likely to dent
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China's economy. And that's because Wuhan is a major
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transport hub in recent years has become a symbol of
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capitalism in central China with international automakers, such
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as Honda and General Motors Building cars there. In fact,
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reports say that more than 300 of the world's top 500 companies
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have a presence in Wuhan. Local government data showed that
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one's GDP growth was 7.8% last year and that that is 1.7
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percentage points higher than the national average. Who hands
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economic strength last year came as its total value of imports
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and exports hit a record high it was 13.7% higher than in 2018.
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And it accounted for almost 62% of Hubei provinces
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overall foreign trade value
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tonight concern growing in the United States officials saying
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they expect more people will contract the dangerous new
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disease. Passengers on flights to Boston wearing face masks.
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Everybody's wearing the mask because they're afraid of
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getting infected by other people
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in Seattle, Chicago and Los Angeles reports that stores are
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running out of supplies of masks. Two cases currently
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confirmed in Chicago a woman in her 60s She had cold like
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symptoms shortness of breath, fever, and many times it would
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present just like a cold just to pay for cold or flu and outside
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Seattle, a man in his 30s At least 63 people are now being
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tested for the respiratory illness in 22 states including
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three possible cases in New York. Symptoms include fever,
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dry cough and shortness of breath. Tonight hospitals on
17:33
high alert Dr. Jennifer Ashton visited New York City's Health
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and Hospitals Bellevue
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so this is a negative pressure Room here at the hospital where
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a patient with Coronavirus would be cared for by specially
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trained
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medical personnel. They showed her precautions they would need
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to take how prepared
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are you and your staff to receive a patient who may have
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Coronavirus. We're prepared to take that patient now our radar
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is always set high so we can screen these patients so we can
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stop it from infecting other people in the public.
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Tonight at the epicenter of the Coronavirus outbreak. The crisis
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is escalating dozens of workers in Wuhan with heavy machinery
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racing against time to build a brand new 1000 bed hospital in
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just 10 days, and now a second 1300 bed facility in the next
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15. The space desperately needed hospitals teeming with patients
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and staff stretched then. In China alone. There are now more
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than 1400 cases and at least 42 deaths as more than 400 medics
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who've worked on SARS and Ebola deploy to help with a rapidly
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growing emergency. Wuhan and 16 other cities in a travel
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lockdown. That's a total of 15 million people ordered to stay
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in place. That's the population of the state of New York and
18:52
Texas combined. The US government's evacuating the
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majority of consulate employees and families from Wuhan and is
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reportedly working on a charter flight to get all remaining
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Americans out.
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The term Cabin Fever is probably coming into play here.
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Here it's the Chinese Lunar New Year the country's biggest
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holiday. New Year worshipers have gathered here to pray for
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good luck in the year of the wrath. But people also be warned
19:18
about gathering in large places like this. And so most people
19:22
here are wearing these kind of protective masks. The list of
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cases outside Mainland China also growing with more than 35
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cases in 13 countries or territories, including France.
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In Japan. The health ministry says three evacuees have tested
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positive for the virus. A day after returning to Tokyo. 206
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passengers were on their government chartered flight on
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Wednesday all were sent to medical institutions to undergo
19:51
tests. The ministry says two of the infected patients had no
19:55
symptoms. It's the first time in Japan the virus has been
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detected in patients with without symptoms. The prime
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minister also says two of the evacuees didn't give their
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consent for the health check.
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The procedure was not legally binding. Unfortunately, they did
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not agree to be tested. We could not force them as it was also a
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human rights issue.
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They said he's confident all evacuees on subsequent flights
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will give their consent. Now a second plane carrying 210
20:24
Japanese nationals from the virus hit city touchdown at
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Haneda Airport on Thursday morning. 13 passengers on that
20:32
flight are exhibiting symptoms and have been sent to a special
20:35
hospital for infectious diseases.
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Good morning. Dr. Jango Chou has been recognized by the Governor
20:41
General's Innovation Awards.
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This work can't be done without teamwork. She and the team
20:47
at the National microbiology lab have been praised for developing
20:50
any bola vaccine, but just over a week ago to her husband and
20:55
her students from China were evicted from Canada's only level
20:59
for lab. Their security access revoked. Staff at the lab was
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told last Monday the couple is on leave and not to communicate
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with them. We're getting those resources who work at the lab
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but who don't want to be identified for Fears they'll be
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punished. They say this is coming just months after it
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specialists entered choose office after hours and replaced
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your computer and her superiors stopped authorizing work trips
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to China. Manitoba RCMP confirmed it was called in by
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the Public Health Agency of Canada on May 24. A spokesperson
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says the agency is investigating a policy breach calling it an
21:38
administrative matter and it's taking steps to resolve it
21:41
expeditiously. We can assure Canadians that there is no risk
21:45
to the public and that the work of the NML continues in support
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of the health and safety of all Canadians.
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I want to stress. The risk of infection for Americans remains
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low. And with these and our previous actions, we are working
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to keep the risk low. All agencies are working
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aggressively to monitor this continually evolving situation.
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And to keep the public informed and it constantly transparent
22:14
way. The United States appreciates China's efforts and
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coordination with public health officials across the globe and
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continues to encourage the highest levels of transparency.
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It is likely that we will continue to see more cases in
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the United States in the coming days and weeks, including some
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limited person to person transmission. The American
22:35
public can be assured the full weight of the US government is
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working to safeguard the health and safety of the American
22:43
people.
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You need not look far to see the economic consequences of this
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virus airline after airline suspending flights to China.
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This afternoon. One of air Canada's last direct flights
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from Beijing landed in Vancouver. In China, entire
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swaths of the country have been shut down. Starbucks has closed
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more than half its outlets Toyota announced it will close
23:05
its plants. And Google says it will temporarily close all of
23:09
its Chinese offices. Remember though back in 2003, China was
23:13
basically the world's factory today China's much more
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intertwined in the buying and selling of the global economy.
23:21
The fact that the
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Chinese authorities have clamped down and they put many cities in
23:26
lockdown already. That means those consumers aren't out there
23:29
purchasing and that will really dampen Chinese growth.
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And that dampening will be felt in places you may not expect.
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Cameron seafood sells about half its lobsters to China. And
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Chinese New Year is one of the busiest times of year they were
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set to ship about 20,000 pounds this week.
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Those are all canceled. So actually the sales to China
23:53
completely disappeared from Monday.
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There are other markets for those lobsters but there's no
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way to make up the loss of the Chinese market and no way of
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knowing how or when the world's second biggest economy will
24:09
reopen for business.
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A new case of the deadly Coronavirus has been confirmed
24:13
in the US the latest case in Massachusetts. It's the eighth
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in the US and the first on the East Coast. Health officials
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have declared a public health emergency. nearly 14,000 people
24:25
worldwide have been infected and more than 300 have died. And
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nearly 60 million people in China are under travel
24:32
restrictions. Ramy no Sensio leading us off from Beijing.
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The CDC says the new case of Coronavirus is a Boston resident
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in his 20s who recently traveled to the center of the outbreak
24:44
Wuhan China, he's been placed in isolation. Also today tech giant
24:49
Apple announced it would close all its stores and offices in
24:52
China until February 9, joining a growing list of companies
24:56
restricting operations here this all comes as the worst The World
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Health Organization declared a global health emergency and the
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US State Department raised its travel advisory for China to the
25:07
highest level, meaning do not travel to China. A new study out
25:11
by the British medical journal The Lancet estimates that more
25:14
than 75,000 people have been infected by the virus as of last
25:18
week. If that turns out to be true, it will confirm what many
25:22
already fear that Beijing is massively under reporting these
25:25
numbers. The CDC reported that even if patients initial tests
25:29
for Coronavirus are negative, they could still develop the
25:32
illness because the test only works when patients have
25:35
symptoms. A study also showed the virus can be transmitted by
25:39
patients with no symptoms. A woman who travelled from
25:42
Shanghai to Germany infected seven other people while she
25:47
remained asymptomatic. Those findings contributed to the
25:50
decision to place 195 Americans housed at a California airbase
25:55
in the first federal quarantine in 50 years, they will spend 14
25:59
days there
26:00
that's way to control a virus like this is to keep people away
26:04
from everyone else. While you run out the clock on that
26:07
incubation period,
26:08
I routinely monitor outbreaks of disease around the world, both
26:14
for humans and animals to see if there might be a biological
26:20
warfare agent at work. So I follow what was going on there
26:27
at Wuhan. And eventually reached the conclusion that what we are
26:33
dealing here is an offensive biological warfare agent that
26:41
leapt out of the Wuhan biosafety level for a laboratory there
26:49
that has been DNA genetically engineered with gain of function
26:56
properties that simply accelerates the DNA genetically
27:01
engineering for a bio warfare agent in the first place. And as
27:08
far as I can tell, right now, Steve, just having read the
27:13
public record, it does appear as if it's a combination of what's
27:18
called a camera that basically you have the SARS. And we know
27:24
that that facility has previously worked with SARS and
27:28
stars leaked out of there at least twice before combined with
27:32
the flu virus. And it appears also combined with HIV that, you
27:39
know, leads to AIDS. At a minimum. It's my opinion that
27:43
you know, it's extremely dangerous. The Chinese
27:47
government the first case was December 1, it had nothing at
27:50
all to do with the you know, the food central there that's just
27:55
baloney and propaganda. Clearly the Chinese government knew
27:59
about it probably right around December one, the first human to
28:04
human transmission transmission was December 15. So the Chinese
28:09
government has been lying about it since then. This is a
28:13
specially designated who research lab. Now imagine that
28:19
the who are specially designating a bio warfare lab.
28:25
So the by the who is in on this? These BSL four facilities are
28:31
only good for research, developing, testing and
28:34
stockpiling biological warfare weapons.
28:38
The Chinese doctor who warned the government about a possible
28:41
Coronavirus outbreak has died after contracting the virus
28:45
while working at Wuhan Central Hospital. 34 year old
28:49
ophthalmologist Li wenliang warned his fellow medical
28:53
workers about Coronavirus on December 30. He was then
28:56
investigated by police and accused of making false
29:00
comments. His death has sparked a wave of anger and outrage in
29:04
China, where the hashtag We want freedom of speech went viral on
29:08
Chinese social media site Weibo on Thursday.
29:12
US officials announced today that an American citizen has
29:15
died from the Coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The 60
29:18
year old woman who died on Thursday reportedly had
29:21
underlying health issues before becoming the first known
29:24
American fatality from the illness. As the death toll rises
29:28
and the virus spreads. Authorities from around the
29:30
world are taking strict precautions to slow the spread
29:33
of the deadly disease. Hong Kong said today that it will begin
29:36
enforcing a mandatory quarantine for anyone arriving from
29:40
mainland China and 3700 people are being ordered to remain
29:44
aboard a cruise ship for 14 days after 64 passengers tested
29:49
positive for the virus. The Coronavirus has infected nearly
29:53
35,000 people globally since it was first detected in December.
29:57
So let's talk about impeachment first process is finally behind
30:01
us. The President was acquitted. Mark, looking back on it, what
30:05
do you make of the process and the outcome?
30:10
Well, let me begin by saying David correctly predicted the
30:13
outcome. And so, you know, I have to defer, acknowledge that
30:19
God, there was a reluctance on the part of Nancy Pelosi and the
30:23
speaker, the speaker and the leadership to approach
30:26
impeachment, they did not see it as a political winner, but it
30:29
was forced upon them, and by the President, and by the revelation
30:34
that he was shaking down of not extorting an ally, to obtain
30:41
unflattering and libelous information on his principle of
30:44
principle political opponent. So they the left with no choice. I
30:48
think that, you know, several people acquitted themselves.
30:52
Well, the I will say that Mitt Romney restored some faith in in
30:59
the process. I mean, we've gone through a great time in American
31:02
politics with religions involved, where your question
31:05
is, does your faith inspire your politics? That is your politics,
31:09
a shape your faith, and I think Mitt Romney to his credit, you
31:14
stood as a witness to his belief in his convictions. But Donald
31:18
Trump emerges from it, emboldened, as by demonstrated
31:22
by his remarkably egregious behavior since then, at the
31:26
prayer breakfast in the White House, and public utterances,
31:30
and in today's actions,
31:32
Senator Tom Cotton, who sits on the Senate Intelligence and
31:35
Armed Services Committee suggested that the virus may
31:38
have come from China's biological warfare program.
31:42
That's an extraordinary charge. How do you respond to that?
31:47
I think it's true that a lot is still unknown. And our
31:51
scientists, Chinese scientists, American scientists, scientists
31:55
of other countries are doing their best to learn more about
31:58
the virus. But it's very harmful. It's very dangerous, to
32:02
stir up suspicion, rumors and spread them among the people.
32:06
For once, this will create panic. Another thing is that it
32:10
will fend up racial discrimination, xenophobia, all
32:14
these things that will really harm our joint efforts to combat
32:19
the virus. Of course, there are all kinds of speculation and
32:23
rumors that people who are saying that these viruses are
32:26
coming from some military lab not of China, maybe in the
32:30
United States. How can we believe all these crazy things?
32:35
He's like, it's crazy. Where did the absolutely crazy? Where did
32:39
the virus come from? We still don't know yet. It's probably
32:43
according to some initial outcome of the research.
32:47
Probably coming from some animals, but we have to, to
32:51
discover more about it.
32:52
Number one, I was a Democratic caucus. Member of caucus. No,
32:59
you have it. You're a lion dog faced pony soldier.
33:02
The press is creates hysteria and headlines that are now
33:05
divorced from the facts. I will not know when we actually have a
33:07
pandemic coming. I will not be able from reading. I'll put them
33:14
on hold reading the press, I will not be able to know what
33:18
we've got on our hands. And this is a perfect example of that. So
33:21
here are the headlines now. 10s of 1000s of more cases that we
33:24
had realized 300 Dead in China, when the headline should read,
33:30
in spite of it being milder and infecting many more 10s of 1000s
33:34
of people that we knew the death rate still remains just 300
33:38
people. Mm hmm. The numerator versus denominator is point oh
33:43
3%. Right. I don't know as is. In other words, you put 300 over
33:49
40,000 That's the death rate for them from Coronavirus, right,
33:53
because they're realizing that was much more widespread, much
33:56
milder, much less likely to kill anybody except people that are
33:59
immunocompromised and are old or at risk for complications of our
34:03
illnesses. You are much more likely to die of the flu right
34:06
now than the Coronavirus right now. Why isn't that the
34:10
headline? Why do they why are they saying get your flu shots
34:12
reminder. Don't worry about this one. The CDC has got it.
34:15
Tonight the CDC is intensifying the battle against the deadly
34:18
Coronavirus that has infected more than 50,000 people
34:21
worldwide. More than 1500 people have died nearly all of them in
34:25
China, Carter Evans now on China's drastic measures to stop
34:29
the outbreak.
34:33
This is what can happen to people who don't wear masks in
34:37
the epicenter of the outbreak. And security forces patrol the
34:43
streets of Wuhan during a total lockdown for medical personnel
34:47
protective gear like suits and masks are in short supply, as is
34:51
adequate care, hospitals and clinics are overflowing with
34:55
this sick and dying. In the US the CDC is ramping up its own
34:59
work respond to the epidemic by setting up five laboratories
35:03
around the country where people with flu like symptoms can now
35:06
go and be tested for the virus if their flu results are
35:10
negative. This has scientists around the world race to develop
35:13
a vaccine. So you're using DNA and genetics to teach the body
35:17
how to attack the virus
35:18
exactly and to recognize the virus and then attack it
35:21
immediately.
35:22
Inovio Pharmaceuticals in San Diego has already successfully
35:26
developed vaccines for Ebola and Zika Dr. K Broderick says the
35:30
Coronavirus vaccine they're working on now is showing
35:33
promise.
35:34
It's currently being tested in the lab literally as we speak,
35:37
and we're manufacturing large scale quantities of it to get it
35:41
into human testing by the early summer.
35:43
The US government is preparing to evacuate about 400 Americans
35:47
tomorrow night from the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined
35:51
at a Japanese port for the past 10 days. Those passengers will
35:55
have to spend another two weeks in quarantine when they return
35:58
to the US so far. 285 people on board the ship have tested
36:02
positive for the virus and were sent to Japanese hospitals.
36:06
Today. Malaysian health authorities diagnosed an 83 year
36:09
old American woman with the Coronavirus. She arrived in
36:12
Malaysia after being on board the Westerdam cruise ship
36:15
currently docked in Cambodia. That ship was turned away from
36:19
multiple countries before more than 2200 passengers and crew
36:23
were allowed to disembark yesterday when no one showed
36:26
symptoms or tested positive. In France. authorities announced
36:30
that an 80 year old Chinese tourists died of the virus, the
36:34
first death outside of Asia and the fourth outside Mainland
36:38
China. The Chinese government reported 143 deaths and more
36:43
than 2600 new cases of the Coronavirus in the past 24
36:47
hours.
36:48
Mark just a few seconds a few seconds, Judy, I mean, his
36:51
Amanda's pushing prosecutors to prosecute James Comey and Andrew
36:55
McCabe and intervenes of Mike Flynn. And for Roger Stone. Why
37:01
Roger Stone? I think this open speculation and very plausible
37:07
Roger stones, the one person that could tie Donald Trump to
37:11
WikiLeaks and to the Russians in the 2016. I mean, after all that
37:16
investment to all that investigation. I mean, he that's
37:19
what he did. That's what he was lying about. That's he was the
37:21
intermediary. And I think that it's not out of loyalty or
37:24
affection. I think it's out of vulnerability. He's still
37:28
concerned with that 2016 election, rather than worried
37:31
about 2020 landing
37:33
in Omaha, Nebraska today, escorted from the plane one by
37:36
one by medical teams rushed off by motorcade to this special
37:40
isolation unit.
37:41
They've had a very long journey. So I think we're not going to
37:44
make any assumptions about anything that's passed along
37:47
verbally. We're going to go ahead and just test everybody.
37:50
338 Americans were evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise
37:54
ship in Japan flown to bases in Texas and California arriving
37:58
overnight. 14 are suspected of having a Coronavirus infection
38:03
for now in isolation and hospitalized near Travis Air
38:06
Force Base near Sacramento. 10. In Omaha, hundreds of passengers
38:10
checked before leaving the ship were deemed healthy to fly. I
38:14
have to put my mask on the bus will take you airplane. Airplane
38:18
takes you Thanks. But after the evacuation had already begun a
38:22
complication, new test results revealed those 14 people were
38:26
positive for the virus exposing others on a 40 minute bus ride
38:31
to the airport. Officials making a critical decision saying the
38:34
safest option was to push forward with the evacuation,
38:37
putting infected patients in the back of the plains in these
38:41
special isolation chambers.
38:43
They put temperatures at a high temperature you went into that
38:46
isolation booth. Mark Jorgensen
38:48
had to leave his wife behind in a Japanese hospital after she
38:51
tested positive for the virus. So far 454 Cruise passengers
38:56
have been infected. We met John and Melanie herring when he
39:00
spiked a fever and had to be hospitalized. He's now fighting
39:03
the virus and has pneumonia fine Diamond Princess The couple
39:07
deciding Melanie should be on that flight home. Melanie is now
39:10
back in the US telling us she to spiked a fever.
39:14
Alright, so let's get to Clayton said del he is live from Omaha
39:17
tonight in Clayton the rest of the roughly 300 passengers the
39:20
Americans who showed no sign of the virus we know they spent
39:23
time on those buses with these passengers. The Americans the 14
39:27
who it's believed might be infected with Coronavirus of
39:29
course more testing here at home. But I gathered the rest of
39:32
the passengers who were in close contact will be watched closely
39:35
now for the days to come.
39:36
They will be watched very closely David they'll be in
39:39
quarantine for two weeks. And it's important to note that
39:42
those 14 others who tested positive in Japan will be tested
39:45
again here in the States. And while that happens they will be
39:48
kept in quarantine in isolation away from everyone else. David
39:53
the World Health
39:53
Organization warned today that the window of opportunity to
39:56
contain the international spread of the Coronavirus is closing,
40:01
South Korea has become the latest fraud in the outbreak,
40:04
the country declared a health emergency. As cases their
40:08
quadrupled to more than 200 infections over the past two
40:12
days, officials closed schools and banned math mass gatherings,
40:17
including services at a church that most of the sick attended.
40:22
Good. No one has entered the church since Tuesday. We did
40:25
disinfection work twice on Tuesday and Wednesday. Right now
40:29
all the disinfection work is complete, and no one is entering
40:33
the church.
40:34
Meanwhile, in China, the number of new infections fell for
40:37
another day, Chinese officials have recorded over 75,000 cases
40:42
and more than 2200 deaths. So far, at least 12 more deaths
40:46
have been confirmed outside of mainland China.
40:49
It's a disaster. It's disastrous. It's crazy. It
40:54
started out with a ridiculous psychosis against Chinese or any
40:58
oriental looking people. So already, I'd say two weeks ago,
41:04
people weren't going to Chinese restaurants anymore somehow
41:06
thinking that you know, anything Chinese, no matter if they've
41:11
been to China or born here. And there was a lot of
41:14
discrimination against Chinese people couldn't even come into
41:17
shops, psychosis, total ridiculous stuff. In the
41:21
meantime, Italy was one of the first to really start testing
41:25
everyone. So I went to Madrid 12 days ago, I think, and I went to
41:32
Spain and nothing going on. And then when I came back to
41:35
Florence, they they zapped me with a thermometer. So already,
41:40
this really goes to prove how you know if you're testing
41:44
everyone, first of all, you're going to find cases, and that's
41:49
what happened. They found people who didn't have any symptoms at
41:52
all, and whatever. I think the government is there, everybody's
41:57
giving the information that you know is very contagious. Yes,
42:01
but it's not lethal and only old people only that's the problem,
42:05
of course poor people with, you know, immune deficiency problems
42:09
or the elderly with issues. So the government and the media
42:14
sort of are giving the I think they're giving the right
42:16
information, but the actions are just the opposite. So closing
42:21
museums, closing schools. I mean, and the final thing is, of
42:27
course, canceling football games or doing football games in close
42:33
stadiums that that gives a big message yesterday passengers
42:38
from a bus called the police to come because they overheard the
42:43
bus driver talking to his doctor about having Coronavirus, so
42:49
they called the cops. The cops came and turned out the bus
42:53
driver was just telling his doctor that he had done the test
42:57
because he had to for his job and that he was negative. So I
43:01
mean, can you imagine people on the bus freaking out and calling
43:05
the cops because they hear the bus driver talking about the
43:10
Coronavirus. That said, so my telescope is closed, even if I'm
43:19
doing an online university and of course the online stuff goes
43:23
on. But I had two exams programmed for Friday, the 27th
43:28
of March and until further notice, those have been
43:31
suspended. On the other hand, the University of Florence is
43:35
open and Sabby started classes again yesterday. And she said it
43:39
was packed. So and then you hear stories about supermarkets rated
43:44
in Milan. And even here in Florence, people are hoarding
43:48
and we don't we don't do this stuff. We just go we're trying
43:52
to go to as many Chinese restaurants possible. I have a
43:56
son who's doing his usual shopping at the Chinese junk
43:58
shores stores. So we're trying to contribute to normal life. Of
44:02
course, I'm a remote worker. So I'm not really touched about all
44:06
I'm not really touched by any of this. But you know, even if I
44:11
were I mean we're feeding it normally, but unfortunately the
44:15
sheep are just going behind what everything's happening. So so
44:20
the
44:20
corona outbreak in Iran is becoming deeply troubling. The
44:23
epicenter was in the holy city of gloworm. And it's spread
44:27
rapidly from there now one of the main reasons it has affected
44:31
Iran so badly seems to be that Iran has kept its flights open
44:35
with China during the outbreak there. And because Iran has such
44:39
close ties to China, and both politically and economically
44:43
links with the Chinese, which have been a lifeline for Tehran
44:47
to combat sanctions. They didn't close access from and to China,
44:52
and it also seems that senior officials are not immune to the
44:56
virus either. Members of Parliament the mayor of
44:59
Tyrone's, 13th district have contracted the virus and even
45:03
the deputy health minister, who's in charge of countering
45:07
the corona virus has tested positive for it. In a video
45:11
that's become viral in Iran, he seems standing next to the
45:15
government spokesman during a press conference. With the
45:19
media, he sweating profusely and constantly wiping his brow with
45:24
a handkerchief. The government spokesman then attended meetings
45:28
with other senior officials. That same deputy health minister
45:32
also gave an interview on state TV last night where he was
45:36
coughing and spluttering away. And today, in a live speech,
45:41
Iran's President, Hassan Rouhani, said that this is one
45:44
of the threats of the enemy, the USA, to spread fright amongst
45:49
Iranian society, in Iran to lead the country towards closure. The
45:54
other
45:54
thing? How would it get out of the lab, most people would think
45:57
well, a technician got infected through poor lab procedure, and
46:02
then walked out on the street infected his family and friends
46:04
and so forth. But there's another way it could have gotten
46:06
out of the lab, because we know that that in China, some
46:10
researchers, not all but some researchers have actually taken
46:13
their lab animals after they're done experimenting with them,
46:17
after they've been infected with various viruses so forth. If the
46:20
lab animals aren't dead, they take the bats and the rats and
46:23
the snakes and everything to the local fresh meat market and sell
46:27
them on the fresh meat market to make extra money. So the virus
46:31
may have passed to human beings. By that means, through the the
46:36
Avenue of the vector of someone's stomach,
46:38
but I'm not at all convinced that we can't get hold of what
46:42
we need here in the US, we have stockpiles, we also have the
46:46
capacity to produce more in all these areas. I'm no expert in
46:51
this. But we've seen some of these biotech companies, Gilead
46:56
being one of them, probably coming up with the vaccine in a
47:00
much shorter time than people realize.
47:03
I'm deeply concerned that we are way behind the eight bonus.
47:08
Well, we actually have been aggressively moving. It's been a
47:10
month and a half since this situation arose. And we have
47:13
enacted the most aggressive containment measures in the
47:16
history of our country. In terms of our borders. I've used the
47:18
first federal quarantine authority and 50 years of an HHS
47:22
Secretary, we worked
47:24
every single American today that if this pandemic hits our
47:28
shores, that we have everything available, and we've stockpiled
47:32
it and we're ready to go.
47:33
That's just I was very clear, when we enacted our containment
47:36
measures at the border, we cannot hermetically seal off the
47:39
United States to alarms. And we need to be realistic about that.
47:43
And so this virus will have ozone in some forms. It does and
47:47
we'll have more cases in the United States. And we've been
47:49
very transparent about that. And we will then work to mitigate
47:52
the impact of those
47:53
they met in Italy now the epicenter of the corona virus in
47:58
Europe, trying to coordinate the response to the disease. While
48:02
taking measures to block the outbreak, Europe's health
48:06
ministers decided against canceling all major public
48:10
events and against shutting their borders. On TV,
48:16
we've decided to apply a set of common principles in the next
48:19
days, weeks and months in principles based on good
48:22
cooperation and mutual assistance. And we've decided
48:25
that it's unthinkable to even consider closing our borders in
48:28
such a measure would be inefficient,
48:30
who left a majority for chair
48:33
while China has applied to drastic measures to stop the
48:37
outbreak imposing lockdowns on 10s of millions. Europeans say
48:42
that closing their borders and posing ID checks or examining
48:46
travelers will not stop the disease. Scientists say it can
48:50
still slow its expansion on pressure.
48:53
controlling the flow of travelers can slow down the
48:56
spread of the disease. But I believe it can't stop it
48:58
altogether. Probably.
49:00
Since the latest spate of infections in Italy COVID-19 has
49:05
reached new countries Switzerland, Croatia and Austria
49:10
through people who had traveled from Italy, Germany, France and
49:14
Spain have declared new cases.
49:16
Washington state public health officials gave new details and
49:19
an afternoon press conference about the circumstances that led
49:22
to the man's death.
49:24
The person who died was a patient at Evergreen hospital,
49:28
but underlying health conditions. It was a male in his
49:32
50s.
49:33
At this mumble we have 22 patients in the United States
49:36
currently that have Coronavirus. Unfortunately one person passed
49:40
away overnight. She was a wonderful woman a medically high
49:44
risk patient in her late 50s.
49:47
That was a lot. Let me start with the most important part and
49:50
that is confirmation that an American has died in Washington
49:54
State. We had early reports that it was a male and reverse
50:00
release from the governor of Washington referred to our
50:03
hearts go out to his family and friends. The President then said
50:06
that it was a woman in her 50s. The the governor of Washington's
50:12
press release has been changed to make reference to there. So
50:16
we are unclear. We do not have confirmation. We're trying to
50:19
get confirmation, but we do know that the first US citizen has
50:22
died
50:23
after do. Are we overreacting? Yes, yes. Yeah, I'm
50:27
hearing this from doctors left and right.
50:29
Yes. And we are not overreacting. The press is
50:31
overreacting. And it makes me furious. The Press should not be
50:34
reporting medical stories as though they know how to report
50:38
we will if we have a pandemic, I don't know how to tell that
50:41
we're actually having a pandemic because everything is an
50:43
emergency. People that are infectious disease specialists,
50:46
the CDC, the epidemiologist, need to take this very
50:49
seriously. The Press needs to shut up because you're more
50:52
likely to die of influenza right now. However, it
50:56
may I'm not trying to go against you. But I have a question. It
50:58
is now beat stars in terms of fatalities. 362, and they're
51:02
saying
51:03
Tality rate is still lower, but there's spreads fast. It's a
51:06
mild illness, it spreads all over the place. And it's only
51:09
out of the 17,000 in documented effect that I bet there's
51:12
hundreds of 1000s of cases 300 deaths, okay, and always in
51:16
immunocompetent compromised people always in people that are
51:19
at risk for these sorts of things. If they get a severe
51:21
viral respiratory infection, whether it's flu or corona, or
51:24
whatever. All of these can hurt people who are compromised. They
51:28
can the rest of us need to wash your hands carefully get our
51:31
influenza vaccines. Listen to the CDC, if there's a problem,
51:35
they will let us know the CDC made it very clear that 5000
51:38
People just in the last two weeks have died from the flu
51:41
here in America. Why are we panicked about that real people
51:44
died on the streets of Los Angeles this morning from
51:47
homelessness warning if that were Coronavirus, people freak
51:49
the hell out right? Why aren't we putting our parties in the
51:52
right place? It's the press,
51:53
as you may know, as of today, and I say as of today at this
51:59
hour, we have 33 confirmed positive tests for the virus.
52:06
Five individuals have subsequently moved out of state.
52:10
So they're 28 people that we know in the state of California
52:15
that are positive. The case yesterday, understandably
52:18
generated a lot of attention, but didn't surprise any of the
52:22
folks standing to my left or right. We knew this was
52:26
inevitable, as it relates to the nature, the epidemiology the
52:30
nature of these viruses that that incident would occur
52:34
accordingly.
52:36
When hearing about it, we initiated a series of protocols
52:40
that we were prepared to advance.
52:42
Thank you, Mr. President.
52:43
And I'm just going to ask you directly about this with regard
52:46
to the flow of information. From the very beginning, you received
52:49
a lot of criticism regarding that, in particular about Dr.
52:54
Anthony Fauci.
52:55
He is world renowned in contagious diseases. And there
52:59
were reports out there that he was being muscle, can you tell
53:03
us that this widely respected expert, Dr. Fauci will have
53:07
every opportunity to tell us the truth? Well, that's a great
53:12
question because he has, because he has had that ability to do
53:17
virtually whatever he's wanting to do. And in fact, in fact, he
53:21
was never muscle. Okay. I think I can speak you can speak Why
53:24
don't you speak to the very dishonest question, but that's
53:28
honest, I want to
53:29
clarify. I want to clarify. So
53:32
let me let me clarify it. I have never been muzzled ever and I've
53:37
been doing this since the administration of Ronald Reagan.
53:40
I'm not being muzzled by this administration. What happened,
53:43
which was misinterpreted, is that we were set up to go on
53:47
some shows. And when the Vice President took over, we said,
53:50
Let's regroup and figure out how we're going to be communicating.
53:54
So I had to just stand down on a couple of shows and re submit
53:59
for clearance. And when I resubmitted for clearance, I got
54:02
cleared, so I have not been muzzle liberal. That was a real
54:06
misrepresentation of what happened.
54:08
Breaking news tonight President Trump address the nation today
54:11
announcing the first Coronavirus death in this country, a patient
54:15
in Washington State. The president says there's no reason
54:18
for panic. He plans to meet with drug companies on Monday to
54:22
discuss vaccines. The outbreak has now spread with at least 65
54:26
cases across nine states. There have been three new cases today
54:30
all in Washington State and Wall Street has been infected. The
54:34
Dow lost more than 3500 points this week. A 12% Drop. CBS is
54:39
Steve Dorsey is that the White House
54:42
there's no reason to panic
54:44
in and abruptly arrange the White House news conference
54:47
President Trump tried to reassure the country. His
54:49
administration is taking unprecedented actions to contain
54:53
the virus. It comes after he accused Democrats of trying to
54:57
weaponize it against him at a South Carolina rally last
55:00
Tonight is that new hoax. And today he doubled down
55:03
the hoax was used with respect to Democrats and what they were
55:06
saying it was a hoax what they were saying. But the President's
55:09
critics
55:09
say he's the one putting politics ahead of public health.
55:13
Their problem is when you have the highest levels of the Trump
55:16
administration actively using words like hoax, that sends a
55:20
very dangerous signal to American people. We want folks
55:23
to take this seriously. Meanwhile, the White House is
55:25
announcing new travel restrictions on foreign
55:28
nationals who have recently visited Iran. It's also now
55:31
telling Americans to avoid traveling to areas in Italy and
55:34
South Korea most affected by the virus.
55:37
It's certainly not a good situation when you lose travel.
55:40
That's a big part of market. But for a period of time we're gonna
55:44
have to do whatever is necessary safety health number one, where
55:48
the markets will take care of themselves.
55:50
The President also stepped up pressure today on the Fed to cut
55:54
interest rates to help protect the economy. Rena
55:57
see you thank you very much in Tennessee Smyrna, Tennessee
56:00
Republican line, Michael. Hello,
56:02
fellows. Thanks for taking the call. I want to talk about the
56:05
Coronavirus that's not that's been around for a long time.
56:10
Excuse me. If you look on your your levels of Lysol
56:13
Disinfectant, it sits on their human Coronavirus. I believe
56:17
that China created this a different strain of it. They
56:23
released it to their people. I believe I did it to start a
56:26
recession in China because their economy is so bad right now. And
56:31
now they're they're wanting to get it over here in the United
56:33
States. And it's working if they started in a easy avenue to
56:37
start a recession here in the United States. Because we ship
56:41
things from China. You think about the bubble wrap you busted
56:44
bubble wrap, it's got Air and Air it could it could have that
56:47
strain of Coronavirus in there. And it'd be easy for Donald
56:51
Trump to shut the ports down. And we start tre stop trading,
56:55
then we got a recession in America. So I believe that
56:59
people are really just taking this too much out of contact
57:02
text because of the regular virus, the flu kills people. And
57:07
we don't know if these people are dying from just a natural
57:09
cause of flu. They're old or their immune system as well. So
57:14
I just played they're just trying to scare everybody. It's
57:16
a socialist tactic to try to scare people from going out,
57:20
going on vacations and getting around crowds of individuals.
57:24
Okay, so that's my
57:26
goal in Tennessee. The President yesterday when he was speaking
57:29
referred to this fatality as a woman. It is a man is how was
57:34
the mistake like that made because people are very nervous
57:36
right now and getting some of these basic facts right. affects
57:40
public trust.
57:41
Well, I understand that it's a very fast moving situation. Our
57:44
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were up late at night
57:47
very early in the early in the morning working with the
57:50
Washington State Public Health Office, and inaccurately
57:53
recorded that the individual was a female. That's what the
57:56
President was briefed on. They've apologized for
57:59
incorrectly briefing on that, but it's a very fast moving
58:01
situation. Obviously we're right there in Los Angeles a state of
58:05
emergency. In New York City tonight about 1000 people are
58:08
now under self quarantine, or possibly coming in contact or
58:12
linked to one man who was hospitalized. In critical but
58:15
stable condition tonight. His wife two children and a neighbor
58:19
all testing positive. One of his children a college student
58:22
classes canceled they're in Los Angeles that state of emergency
58:26
six new cases there including an airport where are doing medical
58:29
screenings at Le X but death toll in the US rising to at
58:33
least 11 Tonight the first death from California, a passenger on
58:37
a cruise ship during a round trip voyage from San Francisco.
58:40
ABC is with Johnson leading us off with the efforts to contain
58:43
the virus here in New York and across the country.
58:47
Tonight a scramble to contain the spread of the Coronavirus in
58:50
New York, about 1000 people ordered to self quarantine all
58:54
possibly connected to one patient in this hospital. That
58:58
is
58:58
another 12345 people. And again, all of this one attorney they're
59:09
going to be hundreds and was just
59:12
that 50 year old father now hospitalized in Manhattan in
59:15
critical but stable condition. His wife, two kids, a neighbor
59:19
who drove him to the hospital and another family connected to
59:22
his law firm testing positive to the number of cases jumping to
59:26
11. A local public school district now closing to
59:29
disinfect the buildings in California tonight. Health
59:32
officials say this Grand Princess cruise ship as likely
59:35
linked to the state's first death from the Coronavirus and a
59:38
second infection an elderly patient possibly exposed while
59:42
traveling from San Francisco to Mexico. CDC now investigating a
59:46
small cluster of cases of COVID 19 in Northern California traced
59:51
back to that ship.
59:52
The World Health Organization said Tuesday the global death
59:55
rate from the disease caused by the new Coronavirus is 3.4
1:00:00
percent far deadlier than the seasonal flu. The warning came
1:00:04
as the number of Coronavirus deaths outside China surpassed
1:00:07
the number inside China for the first time. Washington State
1:00:11
Tuesday reported another Coronavirus death the ninth in
1:00:14
the region in New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday, a
1:00:18
Manhattan lawyer has become the second person in the city to
1:00:21
test positive for the new Coronavirus
1:00:24
worldwide the Coronavirus death toll now top 3000 With nearly
1:00:28
90,000 cases. But even those numbers are nothing compared to
1:00:33
what could happen in the months ahead. Today CBS News's Jim
1:00:36
Axelrod spoke with one of this country's top experts from
1:00:40
Harvard on viruses who has a startling prediction.
1:00:43
The number that I think is grabbing a lot of people is this
1:00:46
estimate 40 to 70% of the world's adult population could
1:00:51
be infected.
1:00:52
Yes, accurate. That is, it's a projection. So we will find out
1:00:57
if it's accurate. As things go on. It is a best estimate that
1:01:02
I've been able to make based on a combination of the
1:01:06
mathematical models that we use to track and predict epidemics.
1:01:09
So in terms of addressing the numbers that may get people
1:01:13
panicked, what can you tell us?
1:01:16
Well, again, the 40 to 70% is a number infect a proportion of
1:01:22
the population, adult population infected. And we know that some
1:01:27
people who get this infection have no or almost no symptoms
1:01:31
whatsoever. What we don't know is how many there are like that.
1:01:35
So if say that's half the people, then the 1% or 2% that
1:01:41
we're seeing in the symptomatic people is cut down by half.
1:01:47
Whatever the number is, it's going to be it's going to take a
1:01:50
toll if it really does spread as widely as that projection says,
1:01:55
and that's what I think is likely to happen.
1:01:59
The Wall Street Journal reports the Trump administration is
1:02:01
considering using a national disaster program to cover the
1:02:04
cost of treating Coronavirus in some of the 27 million Americans
1:02:08
without health coverage. The nation's largest union of
1:02:12
registered nurses National Nurses United Tuesday called the
1:02:15
nation's public health system, woefully unprepared for the
1:02:19
pandemic and demanded once a vaccine vaccine is developed it
1:02:23
should be made free to the public
1:02:25
and I wanted to get your reaction to this global
1:02:26
headlines in China. There's a new study out tonight showing
1:02:29
that there could be two strains of
1:02:31
this Coronavirus, which
1:02:32
we see for example, in other viruses like influenza this
1:02:36
small study out of China showing two strains one more common one
1:02:40
more transmissible. We don't know yet about which one is more
1:02:44
common here in the US.
1:02:46
Open the curtain, please. We are introducing new york state clean
1:02:52
hand sanitizer made conveniently by the state of New York. This
1:03:00
is a superior product to products now on the market. The
1:03:06
World Health Organization CDC all those people suggest 60%
1:03:12
Alcohol Content Purell competitor to New York State
1:03:18
claim 70% alcohol this is 75% Alcohol. It also has a comes in
1:03:27
a variety of sizes. It has a very nice floral bouquet. Little
1:03:36
I detected lilac, hydrangea tulips for this molecule, tulips
1:03:42
Yes, floral bouquet. Making it in the state of New York core
1:03:47
craft actually is making it for the state core craft makes glass
1:03:53
cleaner floor cleaners degreasers laundry detergent,
1:03:57
vehicle fluids hand cleaner, and now they make hand sanitizer
1:04:03
with alcohol. The current capacity is 100,000 gallons per
1:04:09
week, and we're going to be ramping up will be providing
1:04:15
this to governmental agencies, schools, the MTA, prisons, et
1:04:21
cetera, that is now in production will start
1:04:24
distributions we're going to distribute it to New Rochelle,
1:04:27
which is a hot spot for us. Because literally we're hearing
1:04:31
from governments that they're having trouble getting the also
1:04:35
to PRL and Mr. Amazon and Mr. eBay, if you continue the price
1:04:41
gouging, we will introduce our product which is superior to
1:04:45
your product and you don't even have the floor of bouquet. So
1:04:49
stop price gadget.
1:04:53
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potential consequences of A pandemic. The event to a one
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It began in healthy looking pigs months perhaps years ago. A new
1:06:04
Coronavirus spreads silently within herds. Gradually farmers
1:06:10
started getting sick. infected people got a respiratory illness
1:06:14
with symptoms ranging from mild flu like signs to severe
1:06:18
pneumonia. The sickest, required intensive care many died. At
1:06:25
first, the spread was limited to those with close contacts,
1:06:28
health care personnel, co workers and families. But now
1:06:32
it's spreading rapidly throughout local communities.
1:06:36
International travel has turned local epidemics into a pandemic
1:06:40
spanning the globe. Just three months ago cap started in South
1:06:45
America, but has now reached several countries with more than
1:06:49
30,000 cases and nearly 2000 deaths.
1:06:54
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has deployed the National Guard
1:06:58
to New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City in Westchester County,
1:07:02
ordering a one mile Containment Zone around a synagogue whose
1:07:06
congregation is at the center of the nation's single largest
1:07:10
Coronavirus outbreak. National Guard members were ordered to
1:07:14
disinfect schools to set up a Coronavirus testing facility and
1:07:19
to deliver food to people in quarantine including 1000s of
1:07:23
students forced to remain at home. This is Governor Cuomo
1:07:26
speaking Tuesday.
1:07:28
It is a dramatic action, but it is the largest cluster in the
1:07:34
country. And this is literally a matter of life and death. That's
1:07:39
not a overly rhetorical statement.
1:07:41
And the hardest hit country in Europe is Italy where today the
1:07:45
death toll jumped to more than 800 and there are more than
1:07:49
12,000 cases. The lockdown in that country now includes all
1:07:53
retail stores, bars and restaurants, except for grocery
1:07:56
stores and pharmacies. Seth Doane reports tonight from Rome.
1:08:02
With the number of cases outside China increasing 13 fold and the
1:08:06
number of countries tripling the head of the World Health
1:08:09
Organization said spread severity and inaction lead to
1:08:13
that sobering calculation. We have that
1:08:16
for med the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as
1:08:22
a pandemic,
1:08:24
a pandemic its reach is clear from China at the epicenter the
1:08:28
number of cases across the world has exploded to more than
1:08:31
122,000 across 115 countries. The global fight is so far not
1:08:37
sufficient whether disinfecting public buses in Spain drive
1:08:41
through swab testing in Belgium or encouraging the wearing of
1:08:45
masks in Iran. After China Italy has the highest number of cases
1:08:50
more than 12,000. The quiet squares and canals across the
1:08:54
country belie the scramble to stop this virus. There is a
1:08:58
glimmer of hope where this started in Wuhan. They're
1:09:01
dismantling those specially built hospitals and the number
1:09:05
of new cases is going down. Tonight Italy is announcing a
1:09:09
real lockdown only basic public services will remain in
1:09:12
operation including transportation. Also grocery
1:09:15
stores and pharmacies will be open but nor a big hit for a
1:09:20
fragile economy.
1:09:21
China's Senior Medical Advisor Tom Nanshan says the Coronavirus
1:09:24
outbreak may peak soon and maybe over by April. In
1:09:29
an interview with Reuters, Mr. Tong said that the prediction
1:09:33
was made based on mathematical modeling. The 83 year old is
1:09:37
known for combating the SARS crisis in China in 2003. This
1:09:41
comes as the death toll from the Coronavirus epidemic in China
1:09:45
hit 1016.
1:09:47
Now, while the prime minister today said he feels fine He also
1:09:50
said he has no plans to be tested for COVID 19 which has
1:09:53
many people asking why not? Shooto said his doctors actually
1:09:58
advised against testing since he He's showing those symptoms. And
1:10:01
his health minister Patty high new pointed out a little later.
1:10:04
That is the normal protocol.
1:10:06
There is no evidence that someone needs to self isolate if
1:10:13
in fact they have been contact with someone who is
1:10:15
asymptomatic. And so it's important it's important to
1:10:18
remember that that is why the Prime Minister has received that
1:10:20
public health advice it doesn't have to have a test.
1:10:24
I do also say the Prime Minister's wife Sophie will be
1:10:27
extensively interviewed as health officials attempt to
1:10:30
trace everyone she has been in contact with
1:10:33
and scientists work to contain the Coronavirus researchers are
1:10:36
still trying to figure out where it came from. Early research
1:10:39
suggests human picked up the Coronavirus from animals
1:10:42
possibly bats, but it's not clear how the virus made that
1:10:45
jump science journalist and author David's woman has been
1:10:48
tracking this. He joins me now on the phone and David I know
1:10:51
you know a lot about this but I am learning with a lot of other
1:10:54
folks here and a disease that can spread from animals to
1:10:57
humans is called zoonosis Coronavirus is a zoonotic
1:11:01
disease. What do we know so far about the Coronavirus and how it
1:11:05
spread from animal to human?
1:11:08
Well, part of what we know comes from past experience with
1:11:11
outbreaks such as SARS in 2002 and 2003. SARS was a very scary
1:11:17
new virus when it first appeared in southern China. It was new to
1:11:20
humans, it had to come from somewhere. And scientists
1:11:24
eventually tracked the SARS virus to bat bats are the
1:11:28
reservoir hosts, meaning the virus lives in them without
1:11:32
causing symptoms. Now that was part of what rang the alarm bell
1:11:36
on coronaviruses coronaviruses. SARS is one this is another,
1:11:41
they evolve very quickly. They live in animals, frequently
1:11:44
bats. And when we come in contact with that, we invite
1:11:48
those viruses to jump from bats into humans, because they
1:11:52
evolved quickly. They can frequently adapt to us and cause
1:11:56
terrible trouble.
1:11:57
If it is, in fact bats in this case as well. What is it about
1:12:02
them that makes them these frequent hosts of viruses or
1:12:04
reservoir hosts? I believe you just called them.
1:12:08
That's right. Bats seem to be overrepresented as the reservoir
1:12:12
hosts for a lot of these scary viruses, SARS viruses, I
1:12:16
mentioned MERS virus, Hendra virus in Australia Nipah virus
1:12:20
in Malaysia. Now this one. What is it about bats? Well, a couple
1:12:24
of things. First of all, bats are a very diverse order of
1:12:28
mammals. One in every four species of mammal hunters is a
1:12:32
bat.
1:12:33
The scenes of people stocking up on toilet paper and cleaning
1:12:38
supplies playing out all over the country, not just here.
1:12:41
Yeah. Reporter Nicole Comstock on what's behind the social
1:12:44
anxiety that leads to panic buying.
1:12:49
Shopping carts are being sanitized at busy Costcos all
1:12:53
across the Southland where customers have been stockpiling
1:12:57
food, water and hygiene products because of the Coronavirus
1:13:00
National Emergency
1:13:02
people are just freaking out over it's just like chill dude.
1:13:06
Adrian thing some people are going way overboard hoarding
1:13:09
food and water like it's the end of the world
1:13:11
or I'm going to hoard myself inside my house because we're
1:13:15
all gonna die and it's zombie apocalypse. You know, that's
1:13:18
that's too much.
1:13:19
But why are people buying too much?
1:13:21
That's kind of a social anxiety. Psychiatrist Anil Sharma is the
1:13:25
medical director at dignity Northridge hospital. He says
1:13:28
when some people see the crowded parking lots long lines and
1:13:32
empty shelves, it triggers an unreasonable response to run out
1:13:36
and follow suit. Rather than going into this anxious or
1:13:40
obsessive mode. They should think rationally
1:13:44
number in a panic mode. Silvia Hernandez didn't load up her
1:13:47
cart, she thinks most people don't need to.
1:13:50
They're not really looking into like kind of educating
1:13:53
themselves on it. Our anxiety came from the schools shutting
1:13:57
down for three weeks.
1:13:58
Yeah. Earlier this week, the first clinical trial of the
1:14:01
vaccine candidate for the virus began in Washington state, as
1:14:05
you probably know, the genetic sequence of the virus was first
1:14:10
published in January. But thanks to the unprecedented partnership
1:14:14
between the FDA, NIH and the private sector, we've reached
1:14:18
human trials for the vaccine. Just eight weeks later, that's a
1:14:22
record by many, many months. It used to take years to do this.
1:14:26
And we did it just in a very short while. That's the fastest
1:14:31
development in history of what we're doing with regard to the
1:14:34
vaccine, making very, very big progress.
1:14:38
But according to Tom, there's a much darker dimension to the
1:14:41
Coronavirus outbreak. He says there's deep suspicion here that
1:14:47
a major reason it became a pandemic is a massive state
1:14:51
cover up ordered by China's President Xi Jinping. Including
1:14:56
arresting the whistleblowing doctor who later died,
1:14:59
he said The G Jinping virus, not the cause of it. But certainly
1:15:02
the breadth of the outbreak is because of the authoritarianism
1:15:05
and the lack of press freedom in the mainland. There was no
1:15:08
mechanism for anyone to raise the alarm about this. The one
1:15:11
doctor, you know, who tried to in the early days and ultimately
1:15:14
succumb to the disease was was detained and told to shut
1:15:17
up. Public health crises and closed secret of governments
1:15:21
don't really go together, do they?
1:15:23
Right. They've even admitted that, you know, they've changed
1:15:25
the way they collect data a couple of times, so very, very
1:15:30
tough.
1:15:31
Do you think the death toll numbers that they're reporting
1:15:33
are accurate? There is a lot of
1:15:34
pressure in China for things to get back to normal the economy
1:15:37
is suffering. So I think, you know, it would be reasonable to
1:15:41
think that there is some malarkey with with the figures,
1:15:46
but you know, it's a black box.
1:15:50
We are in unchartered territory.
1:15:54
One measure of China's influence is the pressure it has put on
1:15:58
the World Health Organization to not officially call the
1:16:02
Coronavirus outbreak, a pandemic, but on that front, the
1:16:06
man at the center of it is blood. Why is there a blockage
1:16:11
with that? Why was the who are reluctant to call it a pandemic?
1:16:15
Well, technically it is. I suspect that it may be because
1:16:20
colleagues may think that if they will use the word pandemic,
1:16:23
then it would trigger panic and panic is no good for any kind of
1:16:30
outbreak control.
1:16:31
How was this virus born? What was the mechanism that gave
1:16:34
birth to it?
1:16:35
Probably a zoonotic jump that is from a small mammal likely read
1:16:42
or captured, at least for food consumption.
1:16:45
Fortunately, there's some good news reports not in that front.
1:16:47
early evidence suggests that Chloroquine that's a cheap anti
1:16:51
malaria drug may be effective in treating Coronavirus. Gregory
1:16:55
Rigondeaux is an advisor of the Stanford University School of
1:16:57
Medicine. And he joins us tonight. John, thanks so much
1:17:00
for coming on. So tell us what this is and why you think it's
1:17:04
promising,
1:17:04
please. So the President has the authority to authorize the use
1:17:10
of hydroxychloroquine against Coronavirus immediately. He has
1:17:14
cut more red tape at the FDA than any other president in
1:17:18
history. And for example, in 2017, a new drug was approved
1:17:23
for muscular dystrophy that enroll in a clinical trial that
1:17:29
for a clinical trial that enrolled less than 15 patients,
1:17:33
and it was generally uncontrolled in an open setting.
1:17:36
hydroxychloroquine has been on the market for over 50 years
1:17:40
with a quality safety profile. And I'm here to report that as
1:17:45
of this morning, about five o'clock this morning, a well
1:17:49
controlled peer reviewed study carried out by the most eminent
1:17:52
infectious disease specialist in the world did he a Rolls MD PhD
1:17:58
out of the south of France, in which he enrolled 40 patients
1:18:02
again a well controlled peer reviewed study that showed a
1:18:05
100% cure rate cheer rate against Coronavirus. This study
1:18:10
was released this morning on my Twitter account Rigondeaux ASQ
1:18:14
as well as our most recent website COVID trial.io. This
1:18:20
study was recently accepted to the International Journal of
1:18:23
anti microbial agents by Elsevier. I'm going to show
1:18:30
to no agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh
1:18:33
yeah, that'd be fun.
1:18:42
And there you go.
1:18:43
I forgot at least 60% of those. It's like this festival of
1:18:48
recognition. Oh, oh, holy. Oh, man.
1:18:53
Bag report.
1:18:54
Oh, my goodness.
1:18:56
A lot of this stems out out of New York. So that makes sense.
1:19:00
Yeah, right the front. But she's and they lock in everybody down?
1:19:05
Do you think in hindsight that people realize how duped they
1:19:09
were? I'm not no agenda people but people in general they
1:19:12
realize how deep they've been?
1:19:13
No, I don't think so. I think it's gonna take years before
1:19:16
they realize it. Because when you really didn't make Yeah, so
1:19:20
far in the future that then they've kind of forget about
1:19:22
it's like a broken arm. You know, I yeah, I broke my arm.
1:19:26
Okay, now because when you listen, when you listen to it,
1:19:29
you think, wow, we were all flipping out. We weren't most
1:19:32
people who listened to the show weren't?
1:19:35
Yeah, you know that. One of the things that comes out of these
1:19:38
clips is the notion of how does it COVID transmit, they had this
1:19:41
surface bullcrap, which they pulled back on a year later.
1:19:44
Hmm, yeah, there's gonna be COVID on every surface and it's
1:19:48
going to be transmitted via touch something.
1:19:50
We had the clean Building Initiative.
1:19:54
Yeah, I was at a grocery store and some woman was there with
1:19:57
her husband, dole masked up in there. Looking around where it's
1:20:01
sick and just when people would walk around when you come and
1:20:04
down the street, they give you a wide berth. Yeah. And she
1:20:07
touched a loaf of bread. It was in a cellophane thing and the
1:20:09
guy went Billis don't touch that. You're gonna kill us.
1:20:14
Don't touch it. Don't touch it. Don't touch it. Yeah, it was
1:20:17
pretty pathetic.
1:20:18
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1:20:22
break here. Although, really the break is we just have to double
1:20:28
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1:20:31
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And we'll be back to say goodbye after we get into Can it get any
1:21:20
worse actually enforce you for what you played now?
1:21:23
Yeah, all it does is get worse.
1:21:27
He was explained yesterday, there has been some promise with
1:21:31
hydroxychloroquine is potential therapy for people who are
1:21:34
infected with Coronavirus. Is there any evidence to suggest
1:21:38
that as with malaria, it might be used as a prophylaxis against
1:21:41
COVID-19.
1:21:42
The answer is no. And the evidence that you're talking
1:21:46
about John is anecdotal evidence. So as the Commissioner
1:21:49
of FDA and the President mentioned yesterday, we're
1:21:52
trying to strike a balance between making something without
1:21:56
potential of an of an effect to the American people available at
1:22:01
the same time that we do it under the auspices of a protocol
1:22:04
that would give us information to determine if it's truly safe
1:22:08
and truly effective. But the information that you're
1:22:10
referring to specifically is anecdotal, it was not done in a
1:22:14
controlled clinical trial, so you really can't make any
1:22:16
definitive statement about it.
1:22:18
More of the country is closing down tonight trying to contain
1:22:21
the Coronavirus pandemic. New York State and Illinois have now
1:22:26
joined California and taking that step, with more states
1:22:29
expected to follow. Meanwhile, President Trump invoked
1:22:32
emergency powers to move medical supplies into place as quickly
1:22:37
as possible as US infections top 15,000 With more than 200
1:22:42
deaths, William Bryan begins our coverage.
1:22:45
In much of California stay at home orders have already brought
1:22:49
much of public life to a halt. And today, those orders expanded
1:22:54
statewide. Governor Gavin Newsom asked the entire state 40
1:22:58
million people to stay home. He cited in an analysis that half
1:23:03
the state could be infected in the next eight weeks if more
1:23:06
aggressive moves weren't taken. So he ordered that nothing but
1:23:10
the most essential activities continue.
1:23:12
We will have social pressure that will encourage people to do
1:23:16
the right thing. Just a nod and look saying hey, maybe you
1:23:19
should reconsider. Just being out there on the beach. Being 22
1:23:24
strong at a park. It's time for all of us to recognize as
1:23:28
individuals and as a community. We need to do more to meet this
1:23:32
moment.
1:23:32
It's unclear how the new orders will be enforced. But it's one
1:23:36
of the most drastic containment efforts underway. Across the
1:23:40
country. Another huge effort. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
1:23:44
ordered every employer in his state to keep their workers at
1:23:48
home
1:23:48
100% of the workforce must stay home. These are non essential
1:23:56
services. essential services have to continue to function.
1:24:01
Grocery stores need food pharmacies need drugs. Your
1:24:05
internet has to continue to work the water has to turn on when
1:24:09
you turn the faucet so there are essential services that will
1:24:13
continue to function
1:24:14
and Illinois Governor issued a Shelter In Place Order effective
1:24:18
tomorrow. These states have seen a surge in COVID 19 cases and
1:24:23
they along with Washington State are the hardest hit in the
1:24:26
country. Their hospital systems are already being stressed and
1:24:30
critical protective supplies are running low. The White House
1:24:34
offered some forms of relief today. President Trump said he
1:24:37
had invoked the defense production act and directed
1:24:40
certain companies to change their focus and produce supplies
1:24:44
needed for the Coronavirus fight. And the President also
1:24:47
announced an extension to the profit teen tax filing deadline.
1:24:51
We're moving it all the way out to July 15. No interest no
1:24:55
penalties. Your new date will be July 15
1:24:58
in the move to stem the spring Ahead of the virus across
1:25:01
countries. He announced the US and Mexico had agreed to close
1:25:05
down the southern border to non essential travel. But in what
1:25:09
turned into a testy contentious press conference, the President
1:25:13
also said several things that are factually wrong. For
1:25:16
example, He cited the wrong symptoms for COVID-19.
1:25:20
They are sneezing this sniffling, they don't feel good.
1:25:22
They have a temperature there a lot of different things
1:25:24
actual symptoms are fever, but also dry cough and trouble
1:25:28
breathing, sneezing and sniffling or not.
1:25:36
He implied that an unproven anti malaria drug could prevent
1:25:40
infection. There's zero proof of that one of his top health
1:25:44
officials Dr. Anthony Fauci had to correct the record moments
1:25:47
later.
1:25:48
The answer is no.
1:25:51
And contrary to all public health guidance, the president
1:25:54
implied the US didn't need additional testing for the
1:25:58
virus. You're hearing
1:25:59
very positive things about testing and it's able to test
1:26:03
millions of people. But we inherited a broken old, frankly,
1:26:10
a terrible system. We fixed it. And we've done a great job.
1:26:15
Here is a treatment protocol I followed as prescribed by my
1:26:18
amazing doctor. It was what's called a drug cocktail, which
1:26:22
means it's a combination of different drugs. It consisted of
1:26:25
Tamiflu, which is an antiviral, the antibiotic azithromycin,
1:26:31
more commonly known as a Z pack, a glycol pie relate inhaler that
1:26:37
was used to ease breathing and the inflammation that's commonly
1:26:40
associated with COVID. And here's what I consider to be the
1:26:43
secret weapon hydroxychloroquine. This is a
1:26:46
common anti malarial drug that has been used with great success
1:26:50
in Korea in their fight against the Coronavirus. And yes, this
1:26:54
is the drug that the President mentioned the other day. It is
1:26:57
also the drug that Dr. Anthony Fauci cautioned us about he said
1:27:01
that evidence that the drug was promising is anecdotal. And that
1:27:05
is correct. It means it was a study and it's only based on
1:27:08
personal accounts. We'll add my name to those personal accounts
1:27:12
because I am feeling better
1:27:14
and in the United Kingdom, the heir to the British throne. 71
1:27:18
year old Prince Charles is the latest high profile positive
1:27:21
test for Coronavirus. He has mild symptoms and his self
1:27:25
isolating at his Scotland to state
1:27:27
hospitals nationwide are preparing for a surge in
1:27:30
Coronavirus cases, ventilators to treat the most serious cases
1:27:34
are still in short supply. Governors and mayors are calling
1:27:37
for more help with equipment and relief for frontline health care
1:27:40
workers.
1:27:41
We've all been focused so much on supplies on equipment on
1:27:44
ventilators. We need to focus increasingly on our health care
1:27:49
personnel. Both everything they're going through and how we
1:27:52
help them now but the fact also we're gonna need a lot more
1:27:55
people we're gonna be a lot more highly trained. Healthcare
1:27:58
professionals get us through this in the coming weeks.
1:28:01
The United States now has more confirmed cases of COVID 19 than
1:28:05
any other country. According to Johns Hopkins University's
1:28:08
Coronavirus Resource Center. There are now more than 104,000
1:28:12
cases reported in the US and more than 1700 deaths. More than
1:28:16
230 million people in the US are now under state and local orders
1:28:21
to stay at home to try to slow the spread of the Coronavirus.
1:28:26
While 10s of millions of Americans are under stay at home
1:28:29
orders President Trump left the White House today and flew to
1:28:32
Norfolk, Virginia.
1:28:34
So I think the first thing is, how do you get COVID. And I
1:28:38
think that this is really important. And we've really
1:28:40
learned a lot over the last couple of weeks to months about
1:28:44
how you get this disease. And so the overarching theme is
1:28:48
sustained contact with someone who has this disease, which the
1:28:55
vast majority is people with fever and aches, or someone who
1:29:01
is about to get the disease. So someone in the next one to two
1:29:05
days who is going to develop symptoms of this disease. And so
1:29:09
the way that you get this is the transmission of the virus almost
1:29:15
exclusively from your hands, to your face, from your hands to
1:29:21
your face. And so it's either into your eyes, into your nose,
1:29:26
or into your mouth. So there's a lot of talk about contact or
1:29:30
getting it through contact hands to face. There's also a small
1:29:33
thought that it can be aerosolized that it can kind of
1:29:36
exist a little bit in the air. The thought at this point is
1:29:40
that you actually have to have very long sustained contact with
1:29:45
someone and I'm talking about over 15 to 30 minutes in an
1:29:49
unprotected environment mean you're in a very closed room
1:29:53
without any type of mask for you to get it that way. But to very
1:29:58
simply state the overwhelming majority of people are getting
1:30:02
this by physically touching someone who has this disease or
1:30:07
will develop it in the next one to two days, and then touching
1:30:11
their face. And so that actually I think is incredibly
1:30:15
empowering. And that's as I've been in the hospital the last
1:30:17
two days. I've the thing that makes me smile a little bit, is
1:30:23
that I actually know now that I won't get this disease,
1:30:26
the number of cases in the US surge to 85,000 people, the
1:30:31
number is far higher because of the lack of testing. Well, let's
1:30:36
say you have 100 cases, and let's say, you don't do a
1:30:39
shutdown, then it grows 33% per day. So you take 100 you get
1:30:45
1000 You get 10,000. It's exponential growth.
1:30:48
The leading infectious disease expert on President Trump's
1:30:51
Coronavirus Task Force says he's really confident that those who
1:30:54
are infected and then recover from COVID-19 can build up an
1:30:58
immunity to it. Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National
1:31:01
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases appeared
1:31:04
remotely on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah when he was asked
1:31:07
about the possibility of reinfection from Coronavirus.
1:31:10
This virus acts like every other virus that we know once you get
1:31:15
infected, get better clear the virus that you'll have immunity
1:31:20
that will protect you against reinfection
1:31:22
on Noah show which is practicing social distancing and being
1:31:25
filmed remotely. Dr. Fauci caution that his take is not
1:31:28
100% given because the full study had not taken place yet.
1:31:32
Still, the infectious diseases expert seems certain, so it's
1:31:35
never 100% but I'd be willing to bet anything that people who
1:31:39
recover are really protected against reinfection.
1:31:42
Business Insider reports that blood tests have been carried
1:31:44
out by Chinese health officials showing that antibodies have
1:31:47
been developed to fight off the virus, which is an indication
1:31:50
that the person tested contracted COVID-19 despite
1:31:53
showing little or no symptoms. Matt Freeman, a researcher at
1:31:57
the University of Maryland School of medicine in Baltimore,
1:32:00
told NPR that it's very likely that those who recover from
1:32:03
Coronavirus develop at least some level of immunity to it,
1:32:06
and that even if reinfected later on the effects of the
1:32:09
disease would be much less,
1:32:11
the president said but he announced that those ships would
1:32:14
be put into action against the COVID-19 epidemic. He said one
1:32:17
of those ships would be operational in New York Harbor
1:32:19
by next week. That's nonsense. It will not be there next week.
1:32:24
And the naval hospital ship The USNS comfort. You see it right
1:32:26
there on your screen. It has just docked in New York City.
1:32:30
That ship will be used to house non Coronavirus patients and
1:32:33
that in itself will free up the city's hospital care to focus
1:32:37
primarily on those with the virus. New York Governor Andrew
1:32:40
Cuomo will brief media there at the top of the hour. We're going
1:32:42
to bring that to you live as soon as that gets underway.
1:32:45
We begin with breaking news
1:32:46
just coming in this afternoon. A bizarre story here a train
1:32:49
engineer at the Port of Los Angeles has been arrested on
1:32:52
suspicion of intentionally crashing a locomotive near the
1:32:56
Navy hospital ship mercy. Federal prosecutors say the
1:32:59
train engineer claimed the ship has an alternate purpose for
1:33:03
being docked there possibly a government takeover. Eduardo
1:33:06
Moreno of San Pedro allegedly ran the train at full speed off
1:33:10
the end of the railroad tracks yesterday in an apparent attempt
1:33:13
to damage the ship. The Mersey, which was not damaged its dock
1:33:17
here in LA to help ease the burden on local hospitals that
1:33:20
are busy with Coronavirus patients,
1:33:23
eventually what we'll have to have a certificate of who's a
1:33:26
recovered person who's vaccinated person, you know,
1:33:29
it's really unprecedented. Even the issue of once you get the
1:33:32
case numbers down, what does opening up look like? You know
1:33:35
which activities like schools have such benefit and can be
1:33:39
done in a way that the risk of transmission is very low. And
1:33:43
which activities like mass gatherings may be, in a certain
1:33:47
sense more optional. And so until you're widely vaccinated,
1:33:51
those may not come back at all.
1:33:56
Can I ask you about that, you know, more states yesterday
1:33:59
started having these stay at home orders but not all states
1:34:03
do. And even the states that do some have exemptions Florida
1:34:07
exempts religious services. In some cases, I thought New
1:34:10
Hampshire had exempted florists. At one point Arizona had
1:34:13
exempted hair salons at some point. I
1:34:16
mean, with all due deference to state Shouldn't there be a
1:34:20
national order and national lockdown or requirement rather
1:34:25
than this hodgepodge piecemeal method?
1:34:28
You know, you have a point there Sivanna. But it's one of those
1:34:32
things that in our country, there still is that issue of
1:34:35
central government versus the ability and the right of a state
1:34:38
to make their own decision. But again, I agree with you when you
1:34:42
see things like some of those exemptions. I mean, I can't make
1:34:45
any official proclamations here. But I can say really seriously,
1:34:49
consider those exemptions appropriate when you think about
1:34:52
what's going on. And I urge the people at the leadership at the
1:34:56
state level, to really take a close look at those kinds of
1:34:59
decisions.
1:35:00
Good morning.
1:35:01
We know we're supposed to keep six feet between each other when
1:35:05
we're out of the house. And of course that's right. We've known
1:35:07
for weeks wash our hands. Tell us now about covering our faces.
1:35:12
Well, the CDC says that what scientists know now given recent
1:35:17
studies is that a lot of people with Coronavirus lack symptoms,
1:35:21
or they have only mild symptoms, and they can transmit the virus.
1:35:25
So this means if an infected person goes out and interacts in
1:35:29
close quarters with others, they can unknowingly spread it. One
1:35:33
person who pushed to make this change. Recommending broader use
1:35:37
of masks is the former FDA commissioner Scott
1:35:40
Gottlieb.
1:35:40
So if you're a person who has the Coronavirus and you're
1:35:44
mildly symptomatic, you don't think you're sick or you're
1:35:46
asymptomatic and don't even know that you have symptoms at all.
1:35:52
In the nation's Coronavirus epicenter, Governor Andrew Cuomo
1:35:56
said the hospitalization rate may be slowing
1:36:00
we are flattening the curve by what we are doing. But that
1:36:03
doesn't mean people should be any less vigilant. If we stop
1:36:08
what we are doing, you will see that curve change. That curve is
1:36:13
purely a function of what we do day in and day out.
1:36:19
In fact, yesterday, New York saw the highest number of deaths yet
1:36:22
in a single day, nearly 800. In New York City there have been so
1:36:28
many deaths. Authorities are using refrigerated trucks to
1:36:31
store remains. And New York's numbers show that African
1:36:35
Americans and Hispanics they're dying at higher rates than
1:36:38
whites. For y'all we support you. Amid the grim work on the
1:36:43
medical front lines signs of support. Meanwhile, the
1:36:47
University of Washington's forecasting model one of many
1:36:50
often cited by the White House lowered its estimate of us
1:36:53
Coronavirus deaths. Today it projected more than 60,000
1:36:57
Americans would die by early August down from 84,000. The
1:37:02
University of Washington's model has been on the low side and
1:37:05
there are questions about the accuracy of the official death
1:37:09
count. Some say it may overlook those who die at home without
1:37:13
seeking medical care and those who die without being tested for
1:37:16
Coronavirus. In Washington, DC Trump administration officials
1:37:20
say they are planning for life after the pandemic. But caution
1:37:24
that was still a ways off.
1:37:26
What she's saying is that people need to maybe make their own
1:37:29
decisions. You know, Sweden, I was reading that Sweden actually
1:37:32
has that policy. People are going to dinner you see them in
1:37:36
restaurants, they're out in the streets. I mean, they did not
1:37:38
have a shutdown policy at all in Sweden. And I believe the
1:37:42
numbers are going up. Somebody could check that for me. I mean,
1:37:45
he took a risk the president of Sweden. I mean, it seems to me
1:37:49
that something like the example of South Korea, where they shut
1:37:53
down the country completely and now the numbers are going down,
1:37:56
that that seems to be the way to go. Maybe North Dakota doesn't
1:38:00
have as many of course, people as New York who are sick, but
1:38:05
they couldn't leave North Dakota, they could have the
1:38:08
virus and move to South Dakota now South Dakota gets an
1:38:11
epidemic. So I think that the President needs to shut down the
1:38:14
whole country. Of course, he won't do that, because it
1:38:18
impacts the economy and he knows that the economy is exactly what
1:38:22
will get him reelected or not reelected,
1:38:24
we're still in lockdown in Britain. But first, the
1:38:26
government here adopted the Swedish version, which meant
1:38:28
that there were fairly limited restrictions. Then they switched
1:38:31
to the Danish version, which required an enormous total
1:38:34
shutdown. This is a story of two very similar Nordic cultures,
1:38:38
you've got a widely differing approach about how to fight
1:38:41
COVID-19 At a time when most of the world is shuttered. Sweden
1:38:46
is open for business markets and shops or trading restaurants or
1:38:50
serving schools or educating the Swedes advocate limited social
1:38:55
distancing. Their strategy is to protect the vulnerable while
1:38:59
allowing the virus to spread through healthy people so they
1:39:02
can develop antibodies. This is designed to create so called
1:39:06
herd immunity, which theoretically should result in
1:39:10
most people being safe. Today, the health authorities announced
1:39:14
a further 96 fatalities. Thank you very much. Last night
1:39:18
President Trump criticized the Swedish approach.
1:39:21
They talk about Sweden but Sweden is suffering very gravely
1:39:25
you know that right Sweden did that. The herd. They call it the
1:39:30
herd.
1:39:31
The Swedish anti virus campaign is being led not by the
1:39:33
country's Prime Minister, but by Anders Tecno. an epidemiologist
1:39:38
with the experience of fighting Ebola in Africa. He responded to
1:39:42
Mr. Trump this afternoon.
1:39:44
No, we don't share his opinion. Of course we're suffering.
1:39:46
Everybody in the world is suffering right now in different
1:39:48
ways. But Swedish healthcare which I guess is alludes to,
1:39:52
it's very difficult to understand is taking care of
1:39:55
this in in a very, very good manner.
1:39:58
Fellow scientists mark is called despairs of Sweden. Being so out
1:40:02
of step with most of the world. This, to me sounds a bit like a
1:40:07
madman. We are here playing Russian roulette with the
1:40:11
Swedish population. King Carl Gustaf into the disapproval of
1:40:16
government tactics as he urged suites to cancel the traditional
1:40:21
annual getaway to country cabins
1:40:23
through the FTAs Coronavirus treatment acceleration program.
1:40:28
19 therapies and treatments are now being tested and 26 more in
1:40:32
the active planning or clinical trials. We have 19 therapies
1:40:36
being tested currently. And 26 More are in the active planning
1:40:42
for clinical trials. That's a big statement. That's a lot
1:40:46
trials for Gilead aids, anti rival drug remdesivir Continue
1:40:53
and the company has also expanded emergency use for new
1:40:57
patients getting good early results by the way the companies
1:41:02
that manufacture hydroxy Chloroquine are massively
1:41:07
ramping up production. As you know, many people are
1:41:12
recommending strongly Z Pak be added to Z Pak and also zinc and
1:41:17
the federal government continues to build our stockpiles and
1:41:20
distribute millions of doses for doctors to use as they see fit
1:41:24
for Russia. He golf is prepared to take on any enemy, including
1:41:28
the Coronavirus. Since early February. He has been in charge
1:41:32
of this special patrol by the URL co sacks. They hand out face
1:41:36
masks in their neighborhood of Yekaterinburg and check people
1:41:39
for signs of a cold. Igor Gorbachev is an ottoman, one of
1:41:44
the heads of the Euro Cossacks. People here recognize them by
1:41:48
their uniforms, and some of their recommendations on how to
1:41:51
stay healthy or just as old fashioned.
1:41:55
We recommend our traditional remedies having honey garlic and
1:41:59
raspberry jam and keeping to basic rules of personal hygiene.
1:42:03
When people come in from outside, they should wash their
1:42:05
hands and take off their outdoor clothes because it's decided to
1:42:09
help our government with the Coronavirus because we care
1:42:12
about the faith of Russia.
1:42:15
The Cossacks carry holy water along with them for extra
1:42:18
protection against the virus. These vigilante patrols weren't
1:42:22
authorized by the city. But in Russia, Cossacks often support
1:42:26
the state security forces and act as unofficial guardians of
1:42:29
public order. The next morning calls that teenagers try their
1:42:33
hand at a paramilitary drill. From the late 18th century,
1:42:36
Cossacks defended the borders of the Russian Empire. Since the
1:42:40
fall of the Soviet Union cosec identity has had a revival.
1:42:44
Anyone can now become a Cossack being patriotic, conservative
1:42:48
and ready to fight is key.
1:42:49
I am expressing my deepest apologies for getting it wrong
1:42:54
with the beginning of comparing Coronavirus to influenza. That
1:42:57
was wrong. When I did get right was telling everybody after I
1:43:01
stated my position to be sure you listen to Dr. Fauci because
1:43:05
he should always be your North Star, he will get it right no
1:43:07
matter what. And he has been and I was convinced would always be
1:43:11
the person we should listen to, and follow His direction and
1:43:15
nothing more, nothing less. Again, we are getting lots of
1:43:19
threats on my family's getting threats. I'd like us to please
1:43:23
ask that you stop and that we get together. This is a time for
1:43:28
collective effort not for scapegoating. So I was engaged
1:43:32
in a bit of loser think by comparing numbers. I had a lot
1:43:35
of numbers in my head, I was dealing with 100,000 people
1:43:38
dying of opiates and drugs every year I was dealing with a
1:43:41
billion people infected with h1 N one and 500,040 to 60 year
1:43:45
olds dying of that 24 million flu cases and 30 to 60,000 dying
1:43:49
of that those numbers were in my head as I was trying to compare
1:43:54
this outbreak to that, and I shouldn't have been doing that I
1:43:57
should have been just addressing this outbreak is what it was I
1:44:00
didn't understand the ferocity of this virus and it's
1:44:02
contagious. And now my heart and soul is with New York City,
1:44:07
which is where I spend a lot of my time, I've signed up for the
1:44:09
New York and California health court, and I will be part of the
1:44:12
part of the frontline. If I should be needed. Bill Gates,
1:44:16
thank
1:44:16
you very much for joining us on BBC Breakfast. I just wonder if
1:44:20
I could first ask you how important is it now to have a
1:44:25
global response? I'd say
1:44:27
it's critical because the tools that are going to reduce deaths,
1:44:32
the drugs, you know, that's a global thing to get those out.
1:44:38
And the thing that will get us back to the world that we had
1:44:41
before Coronavirus is the vaccine and getting that out to
1:44:46
all 7 billion people. And so the efforts to test those to build
1:44:51
the factories to understand you know, is it safe and ready to go
1:44:57
that's a global problem. And, you know, so I'm glad you know
1:45:03
that people are coming together to find where's the best work
1:45:08
and combine that, you know, the factory will be in a different
1:45:11
country than the sciences in. This is the whole whole world
1:45:15
working on probably the most urgent tool that's ever been
1:45:18
needed. And of course, duty. The administration today has been
1:45:21
criticized for reducing that support and solidarity in a time
1:45:25
of pandemic and because in order to enact those reforms, it's
1:45:28
going to need the support of the other members of the World
1:45:31
Health Organization, other countries around the world,
1:45:33
and what sort of criticism Nick directed at the US?
1:45:36
Yeah, the criticism is everywhere, you saw Bill Gates,
1:45:39
whose foundation is a major funder of the who say that
1:45:43
cutting the who would be a bad choice and quote the who is
1:45:47
slowing the spread of COVID 19. And if that work is stopped, and
1:45:50
no organization can replace them, the world needs who now
1:45:54
more than ever and Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi said the
1:45:57
president is ignoring global health experts disregarding
1:46:00
science and undermining the heroes fighting on the front
1:46:04
line.
1:46:04
So that's praise but that is in contrast to the administration
1:46:09
criticizing the who for many months. Why do you think we were
1:46:14
so ill prepared for Coronavirus? We haven't recognized
1:46:19
as a global community that we are a global community. And if
1:46:23
we had recognized that and stepped up to it, we would have
1:46:27
prepared for this. We would have systems in place, both
1:46:32
monitoring alerting very quickly. We would have had test
1:46:36
kits available we would have just you know we plan for things
1:46:40
as nations we plan for earthquakes, we plan for
1:46:43
tsunamis, we plan for tornadoes, we didn't plan for disease. And
1:46:49
I don't think that will ever happen now. Thank God,
1:46:52
California will make pandemic relief payments of $500 apiece
1:46:57
to 150,000 migrants who are living in the state without
1:47:01
documentation. Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom said today
1:47:05
that they do essential work and pay millions of dollars in
1:47:08
taxes. Almost 40% of the money will come from private
1:47:12
contributions, the migrants are not eligible for federal
1:47:15
payments.
1:47:16
Now, you know, I've seen you referred to a little bit
1:47:19
recently as the love gov. And I'm wondering if that's bleeding
1:47:22
into your demeanor at all, making you a little soft on the
1:47:24
President, that you don't want to really criticize him because
1:47:27
you need him and now's not a time for fighting. But don't you
1:47:30
have to balance that with calling him out? If he's doing
1:47:33
things that you don't think are great for the people of your
1:47:35
state to be hearing and experiencing? Love go? I've
1:47:40
always I've always been a soft guy. I am the love girl. I'm a
1:47:44
cool dude and loose mood. You know that? I just say let it go.
1:47:47
Just go with the flow, baby. You know, you can't control any
1:47:51
water off a duck's first time. And yeah, I think yeah, wow.
1:47:56
Never said any. Look, I have known you my whole life. All
1:47:59
right. Well, that's your opinion. Yeah. Well, you should
1:48:02
listen better listening works. I'm not always taught. What was
1:48:06
the question? Oh, I remember the question. yourself on I am on a
1:48:09
situation. Yeah. Well, that's your characterization. First of
1:48:14
all right. So it was stated as a question because you have a
1:48:16
characterization into that as a premise. I am working with the
1:48:20
president cooperatively, it's very important that the federal
1:48:23
government and state government work together during this time,
1:48:25
I have to do my best job for the people of this state. You cannot
1:48:29
say, Look, I've been the governor in this country as the
1:48:32
been the most critical of the president up until now. And by
1:48:35
the way, there is no governor that he's been more critical of
1:48:38
than me. So nobody's going to say I gone too soft on the
1:48:42
president. We're working together to help the state.
1:48:45
That's what's important. Now, no politics, no personality, no
1:48:48
ego, no ego. It's not about you. It's not about me, it's about we
1:48:55
and getting through this. And that's my singular focus.
1:48:58
There'll be a data time for everything. But this is not the
1:49:02
time and place.
1:49:03
And nobody is more complicit in that than Fox News. And let us
1:49:08
just for all of you for both of you. I want to put a graphic of
1:49:10
some of the recent inaccuracies from President Trump and we're
1:49:13
doing this explicitly because this is a matter of life and
1:49:16
death. And there's no pussyfooting around this sorry.
1:49:19
This is not a political issue. It's a science issue. It's a
1:49:22
life and death issue. So on April 7, President Trump says on
1:49:26
hydrochloric chlorine, I really think it's a great thing to try.
1:49:30
This is Chloroquine. factcheck clinical trials. Trials are
1:49:33
underway but the FDA and top public health officials have not
1:49:36
endorsed Trump's view that the drug can be taken safely.
1:49:45
March 30, we've done more tests by far than any country in the
1:49:48
world by far factcheck true that the US has done more tests than
1:49:52
any other country but on a per capita basis. It's way behind
1:49:55
Germany, Italy and South Korea.
1:50:05
March 26. On the pandemic, this was something that nobody has
1:50:09
ever thought could happen to this country. factcheck US
1:50:12
intelligence community and public health experts have
1:50:15
warned for years that the country was at risk from a
1:50:17
pandemic. experts also warn that the country would face shortages
1:50:21
of critical medical equipment.
1:50:27
Yeah, it's not only been the administration but a lot of
1:50:29
critics around the world has said simply the who is too
1:50:34
swayed by China. Let me take you back to about New Years. This is
1:50:38
the time when local doctors in Wuhan, China, were telling
1:50:41
hospital administrators that hey, this is something new, and
1:50:45
there's human to human transmission because we're
1:50:47
getting sick. But the hospitals and the local government covered
1:50:51
that up or at the very least silenced those local doctors. So
1:50:55
on December 31, the Wuhan government released a statement,
1:50:58
the investigation so far has found no obvious person to
1:51:01
person transmission, and no medical personnel have been
1:51:04
infected. And the who basically parroted that language January
1:51:09
5, based on the preliminary information from the Chinese
1:51:11
investigation team, no evidence of significant human to human
1:51:15
transmission, and no health care worker infections have been
1:51:17
reported. officials who are talking to me say that the who
1:51:20
should have known better and should not have accepted Chinese
1:51:23
language.
1:51:23
But Nick weren't the Trump administration and the W H. O
1:51:27
praising China's response back in back in January.
1:51:33
Yeah, that's that's a great point. And this is really key.
1:51:35
So let's take a listen to the director general of who talking
1:51:40
in January the day after the who declared this a global
1:51:44
emergency, but also President Trump praising China,
1:51:48
who continues to have a confidence in China's capacity
1:51:54
to control the outbreak.
1:51:56
I spoke with President Xi, we had a great talk. He's working
1:52:00
very hard, I have to say he's working very, very hard. And if
1:52:04
you can count on the reports coming out of China, that spread
1:52:09
has gone down quite a bit.
1:52:11
And Judy, obviously, the President's language about China
1:52:14
has changed. And the US really does want to reform who but they
1:52:18
need international support to do so. And it's not clear that they
1:52:21
have that.
1:52:22
Just like with ventilators, we're building now the best
1:52:24
ventilators. Just like with ventilators, our testing is
1:52:28
getting better and better. I took the first test. The first
1:52:31
test was not pleasant. This was not a pleasant thing. I said,
1:52:35
You got to be kidding to the doctor. You got to be kidding.
1:52:39
Up, you know, and then we hang out, right? And it goes down
1:52:42
here. And then we'll wiggle it around here under your eye. And
1:52:46
then we'll pull it out. And we'll say I said no, that's it's
1:52:50
there's no way that can happen. Is that the way it goes? Sure.
1:52:55
This was a very unpleasant test. And then I was tested a few
1:52:59
weeks later with the new tests that just came out the Abbott,
1:53:03
where they just touch your nose, basically, and they put it in a
1:53:05
machine. And literally a few minutes later, they tell you if
1:53:09
you're fine. And I was lucky in both cases
1:53:12
at Pine Street in in Boston, South End, universal COVID-19
1:53:16
testing leading to new stunning evidence about the asymptomatic
1:53:20
spread of the virus. It was
1:53:22
like a double knockout punch because the number of positives
1:53:26
was shocking to us. But then the fact that 100% of the positives
1:53:30
had no symptoms was equally shocking. Dr. Jim
1:53:34
O'Connell, president of Boston Healthcare for the Homeless
1:53:36
program says broad scale testing was carried out at this shelter
1:53:40
about a week and a half ago because of a small cluster of
1:53:43
cases. The findings now actively being examined by the CDC 146
1:53:49
positive cases about 36% of the shelter's population, all
1:53:54
asymptomatic,
1:53:55
it probably frankly raises more questions than it answers. Pine
1:53:58
Street
1:53:58
President Linda Downey says the results prove the previous
1:54:02
screening method of only testing those showing symptoms to be
1:54:05
ineffective.
1:54:06
I think there are so many asymptomatic people right now
1:54:10
that if we could do universal testing, the number may look
1:54:13
close to this. I don't think we know the universal
1:54:16
testing at Pine Street in and testing of the homeless at BMC.
1:54:20
Bringing Boston south end to number one in the city with the
1:54:23
highest rate of COVID 19 infection of the 146 people at
1:54:27
Pine Street in who tested positive health officials tell
1:54:30
us only one needed hospital care and many have not experienced
1:54:34
any symptoms. We also
1:54:37
one of the most important studies that's been done just
1:54:40
this week came out at Stanford University where they tested the
1:54:44
antibodies in Santa Clara County, California. And so these
1:54:48
are people who have the antibodies from the Coronavirus.
1:54:52
Their thought is that they had acquired the virus many of them
1:54:55
may not have known that they had had it but they look to see how
1:54:58
prevalent those antibodies were in that county, and they
1:55:01
determined that between 50 and 80 times more people in Santa
1:55:06
Clara had the antibodies than had actually tested positive in
1:55:10
Santa Clara County.
1:55:12
They one on one could not help but notice that the only shot
1:55:16
that was opened on the entire length of the shores Elisa in
1:55:18
Paris was a chocolate shop. Even his entire countries
1:55:22
have shut down to prevent the spread of COVID 19. essential
1:55:25
services around the world remain open. And what a country
1:55:29
considers essential tells us a lot about its culture.
1:55:33
All the luxury and fromagerie G shops butchers and wine
1:55:39
merchants and indeed, shocker Lachey that still exists in
1:55:42
which give France still so much of its character all these shops
1:55:46
have been given exemptions and can stay open. And the French I
1:55:50
have to say are all mighty glad of the fact
1:55:53
in the US what counts as an essential service depends on
1:55:56
where you live in states have made controversial choices like
1:55:59
gun stores after the Trump administration released guidance
1:56:02
supporting classifying gun shops as essential states have allowed
1:56:06
firearm businesses to remain open and sales have surged to
1:56:10
record levels. marijuana dispensaries both medical and
1:56:13
recreational have also been allowed to remain open in the
1:56:16
states where they're legal like Colorado, they have adopted new
1:56:20
social distancing measures like curbside pickup.
1:56:26
For the past few weeks, all restaurants bars, clubs and pubs
1:56:30
have been closed here in Australia, but off licenses or
1:56:33
liquor stores, they remain
1:56:35
open so you can go buy a drink, but you'll have to have it at
1:56:38
home. toy shops are an interesting gray area. Some are
1:56:41
closed and others are open to a limited number of customers at
1:56:44
any given time. And I know what you're thinking, why are toys
1:56:48
crucial? Well, the Prime Minister Scott Morrison did say
1:56:51
himself that his wife had to go and buy their children a whole
1:56:53
bunch of jigsaw puzzles because they were essential for his
1:56:56
family. They changed the way they live in the next few
1:56:59
months.
1:57:01
another country's bans on what many would consider essential
1:57:05
for sparking
1:57:06
outrage.
1:57:07
Most people who know a bit about the Philippines are aware of the
1:57:10
iconic Jeepney bus but there is another form of essential
1:57:14
transport here called the tricycle. They're a bit like
1:57:17
Batman and robins that bike but last month strict quarantine
1:57:21
measures placed on the country's main island Luzon meant all
1:57:24
public transport was banned. However, a popular young local
1:57:27
mayor in Manila Vico sotto allow trikes to be used by medical
1:57:31
workers but the next day Philippine President Rodrigo
1:57:35
Duterte. He warned local officials not to break
1:57:38
quarantine rules but now President Duterte his daughter
1:57:41
Sarah, mayor of Davao City has also allowed trikes to be used.
1:57:45
Her exemption being the city doesn't fall on the loose on
1:57:48
quarantine measures who would have thought the humble tricycle
1:57:52
could be so political.
1:57:56
For the first time in the history of India, its extensive
1:58:00
railway network considered a lifeline for the country has
1:58:04
been halted. But porting the strength of carry more than 23
1:58:07
million passengers every day has had a Fallout, lots of daily
1:58:11
regen as have been stranded in the cities without money, food
1:58:15
or shelter, the government's now making arrangements for them.
1:58:18
Interestingly, the information technology sector has been
1:58:21
exempted from what is otherwise a stringent shutdown, with a
1:58:24
view to keep networks that are crucial to communication,
1:58:28
banking and governance running
1:58:32
for for more on the origins of the Coronavirus, Trump's
1:58:36
response and where do we go from here we're joined by as wala
1:58:39
just who has long study diseases that cross the animal human
1:58:45
divide, and who for years has been sounding the alarm about
1:58:49
upcoming pandemic. Dr. Peter das shack is with us. He's a disease
1:58:53
ecologist, the president of eco Health Alliance, a nonprofit
1:58:56
that works globally to identify and study our vulnerabilities to
1:59:00
emerging infectious disease. Eco Health Alliance has been
1:59:03
studying Corona viruses in China since the end of the SARS
1:59:07
outbreak in 2004. This Coronavirus is really called
1:59:11
SARS to he's joining us from the Hudson River Valley in New York.
1:59:16
Welcome to Democracy Now. It's great to have you with us. So if
1:59:20
you can unpack what we just heard, it goes to the issue of
1:59:24
the origins of the Coronavirus, especially interesting that
1:59:28
President Trump is raising this now as he's being seriously
1:59:34
attacked for the United States lack of action and delay and so
1:59:39
he is striking out at as many sectors as he can but talk about
1:59:44
the origins of the Coronavirus Dr. Dash check.
1:59:46
You're good to be here long first the the idea that this
1:59:50
virus escaped from the lab is just pure baloney. It's simply
1:59:53
not true. I've
1:59:54
been working with that lab for 15 years, and the samples
1:59:57
collected were collected by me and others In collaboration with
2:00:00
our Chinese colleagues, they are some of the best scientists in
2:00:03
the world. There was no viral isolate in the lab there was no
2:00:08
cultured virus that this anything related to SAS
2:00:12
Coronavirus to so it's just not possible.
2:00:14
And might you say it's really a politicization of the origins of
2:00:19
a pandemic and it's really unfortunate.
2:00:21
Tonight the streets of New York City remain virtually empty. But
2:00:25
on the heels of the President's new three phased plan to reopen
2:00:29
America, some states are slowly inching back in tonight beaches
2:00:33
in Jacksonville, Florida will reopen, but no more than 10 in a
2:00:36
crowd.
2:00:37
First we inform the people what the rules are, then we warn if
2:00:41
they don't comply and then we take additional action if
2:00:43
necessary if they still don't comply.
2:00:46
Texas will allow some retail to go but not permitted in store
2:00:49
shopping. Minnesota will allow golf courses to open this
2:00:52
weekend. Wisconsin's governor said Lawn Care businesses might
2:00:56
be able to operate and Idaho will allow non essential
2:00:59
businesses like craft dog groomers to open their doors.
2:01:03
Still, some workers are concerned. Andy Revelle works on
2:01:06
Navy ships in Virginia and let us strike this week after one of
2:01:10
his co workers died.
2:01:11
We're literally scared it's like the ship is like haunted by a
2:01:14
ghost. It's everywhere. And we just that's what the environment
2:01:17
we work in all day.
2:01:18
And it's debate over reopening continues news of treatment
2:01:22
progress. Gilead, the maker of the drug remdesivir saw a surge
2:01:26
in its stock price on news reports that the drug helped
2:01:29
COVID-19 patients in Chicago, New York with 600 more deaths in
2:01:34
the last 24 hours. It's still a hot spot. The city announced its
2:01:38
canceling outdoor concerts until June. But the governor today
2:01:41
said he knew patients was wearing thin
2:01:44
the situation we're in now is unsustainable. People can't stay
2:01:46
in their homes. For this length of time, they can't stay out of
2:01:50
work. You can't keep the economy closed forever. You just can't.
2:01:54
The I think when we talk about this idea of reopening society,
2:01:59
you know, only in America. Does the President when the President
2:02:03
tweets about liberation. Does he mean go back to work when we you
2:02:07
know, have this discussion about going going back or reopening? I
2:02:12
think a lot of people should just say no, we're not going
2:02:15
back to that. We're not going back to working 70 hour weeks
2:02:21
just so that we could put food on the table and not even feel
2:02:25
any sort of semblance of security in our lives.
2:02:28
There have been some reports of animals testing positive for the
2:02:31
Coronavirus. Doubt appears health officials in the US have
2:02:34
finally confirmed cases. The US Department of Agriculture and
2:02:37
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says they found
2:02:39
two pet cats in New York state that have tested positive for
2:02:42
Coronavirus. She'll say it appears the animals can get the
2:02:45
virus from humans, or there's no indication animals can transmit
2:02:49
it.
2:02:49
The death toll from the virus in the US is now more than 46,000
2:02:54
people. Officials in California trace two of those deaths to
2:02:57
February.
2:02:58
I think what these deaths tell us is that community
2:03:02
transmission had arrived much earlier than we were able to
2:03:05
detect it. And I think it really highlights the importance of the
2:03:09
shelter in place and protecting the community and preventing
2:03:12
hospitalizations and deaths from
2:03:13
COVID-19. Good evening and thank you for joining us there are two
2:03:16
major headlines as we come on the air tonight putting
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scientists at odds with the Trump administration.
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Researchers behind one of the leading Coronavirus models one
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that the White House has repeatedly cited now says most
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of the country should not consider lifting stay at home
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waters until the end of May. The new model comes as protests to
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reopen are growing and just as some Southern Governors are
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already loosening their restrictions. Meantime tonight
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the scientist in charge of coordinating the government
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search for Coronavirus vaccine says he has been abruptly ousted
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from his job because of what he calls politics and cronyism. Dr.
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Rick bright the head of a little known agency called BARDA says
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he was sidelined after refusing to push for what he calls quote,
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on demand access to hydroxychloroquine. That is the
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drug that President Trump has repeatedly mentioned as a
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treatment for COVID 19 Even though it hasn't been approved
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for that news. Now all of this as the death toll in the US has
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now passed 46,000.
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Beginning this week, new EMT guidelines across the state of
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New York paramedics are not to make life saving attempts to
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unresponsive patients essentially do not revive in
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order to protect first responders from Coronavirus
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exposure. Still EMTs in New York City say they have yet to adopt
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the guidelines.
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But then we also talked about removing information that is
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problematic and of course anything that is medically
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unsubstantiated, so people saying like take vitamin C, you
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know, take Tumeric like those are all will cure you. Those are
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the examples of things that would be a violation of our
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policy. Anything that would go against World Health
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Organization recommendations. would be a violation of our
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policy. And so remove is another really important part of our
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policy.
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Well, there are many, you know, the revolving door problems with
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all of our federal agencies and and all of our state agencies.
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There's an Amana that is very well documented called agency
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captcha, which is a phenomenon or a dynamic by which the agency
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that that's supposed to protect the American public from bad
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drugs or from collusion or what have you ultimately becomes a
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subsidiary or a sock puppet for the industry that it's supposed
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to regulate it. And indeed, that's what we see with the CDC,
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the head of CDC from 2002 to 2009, as you point out, as Julie
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Gerberding, she did a number of billion dollar favors for Merck,
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she's silenced a whistleblower, who was William Thompson, who is
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still as I had to add at CDC, who wanted to tell the public
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that testing of Merck vaccines, oh, that, particularly the MMR
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vaccine was causing autism in black boys and other people who
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got the vaccine on time and that the scientists had been ordered
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to destroy data showing that fact, and that they went ahead
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and publish this body lying about it to the American people
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and the physicians and Julie Gerberding did a huge favor to
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Merck by having that scientists punished and then silence she,
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she arranged for Merck to get the monopoly to the multibillion
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dollar MMR vaccine and to make sure Glaxo could not sell its
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vaccine in this country. She approved the the HPV vaccine
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Gardasil, which is another Merck product. She approved the
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chickenpox vaccine and the silenced whistleblower Gary
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Goldman is another doctor who said this vaccine is going to
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cause shingles epidemic Merck, that not only got the chickenpox
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vaccine, but it also was able to market a shingle of actress and
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she retired in 2009. And she was made president of Merck vaccine
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division in 2010, with a salary of about $2.5 million, I think
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about $5 million in stock options. CDC is actually a
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vaccine company.
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We're also testing disinfectants readily available, we've tested
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bleach, we've tested isopropyl alcohol on the virus
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specifically in saliva or in respiratory fluids. And I can
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tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes.
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isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds. And that's
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with no manipulation, no rubbing, just bring it on
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leaving a go you rub it and it goes away even faster. We're
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also looking at other disinfectants, specifically
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looking at the COVID-19 virus in saliva. This is not the end of
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our work as we continue to characterize this virus and
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integrate our findings into practical applications to
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mitigate exposure and transmission.
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It's been called a landmark collaboration. The World Health
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Organization heads of government and research bodies came
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together to coordinate the fight against COVID-19. They've
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pledged to work together to find a vaccine and make sure everyone
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has equal access to treatments and diagnostic tests. But the
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United States isn't taking part. President Donald Trump has
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accused the who of mishandling the crisis. We'll bring in our
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guests in a moment to discuss the challenges ahead first, this
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report from our diplomatic editor, James bass, it's just
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the place you would have expected in previous times to
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have seen us leadership, a global crisis, and world leaders
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coming together with a response, not the idea of this event to
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coordinate the search for vaccine testing and treatments
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for COVID 19. And to make sure all are widely available, the
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world needs these tools. And it needs them fast.
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Past experience has taught us that even when tools are
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available. They have been not been equally available to all we
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cannot allow that to happen.
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A world free of COVID-19 requires the most massive public
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health efforts in history. Data must be shared production
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capacity, prepared resources, mobilize communities engaged and
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politics set asides. I know we can do it. I know we can put
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people first
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leaders spoke from all regions of the world. Technically
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bringing them all together was a bit of a challenge. Your
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Excellency you have? Can you hear me now? Yes, yes, we can
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hear you. Okay, Germany, one of four members of the g7 group of
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countries that will represent it.
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We're now going to continue to mobilize All countries of the g7
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and the G 20. For them to back this initiative, I hope that we
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will be able to reconcile this initiative with China and the US
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because the fight against COVID 19 as a common good for
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humanity. There shouldn't be any divisions between countries. We
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need to join forces to win this battle.
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Americans considering how polarized we're amazingly United
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right now, 98% of Democrats and 82% of Republicans support the
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social distancing 90% of Americans complete bipartisan
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consensus, believe that if we loosen too much, there'd be a
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second wave. 76% of Americans say even if their governor did
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loosen, they wouldn't go out. And so, to me, the big story
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here is we're sort of hanging together through this.
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Two women Carmelita Barella and Rosetta Shabazz have been
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arrested on federal charges that connection to using a cop as a
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weapon during a robbery back on April 6 2020, inside at
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Walgreens in San Francisco's tenderloin neighborhood, FBI
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Special Agent in Charge, John Bennett,
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when they were approached by store personnel. They began to
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cough, you know, pretty, pretty aggressively and then they, they
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told everybody they had COVID. And so in their own words, they
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were they were telling people they were positive for for this
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fight with
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FBI investigators say these
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crimes are part of a disturbing trend nationwide,
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my executive order to stay at home that was issued last month,
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is set to expire on April the 30th. That executive order has
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done his job to slow the growth of COVID-19. And I will let it
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expire as scheduled. Now, it's time to set a new course, a
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course that responsibly opens up business in Texas. Obviously,
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not all businesses can open all at once. A more strategic
2:12:00
approach is required to ensure that we don't reopen only to
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have to close down again. We will open Texas businesses in
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phases. Phase one begins this Friday, May 1, all retail
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stores, restaurants, movie theaters and malls can reopen
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May the first. Now to minimize the spread of COVID-19. During
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phase one. On the advice of doctors, I am limiting occupancy
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to no more than 25% the extent to which this order opens up
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businesses in Texas supersedes all local orders. If phase one
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works well containing COVID-19 Phase two will expand that
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occupancy to 50%. This order allows these businesses to
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reopen we can go over there over there
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in this situation, the problem, not the solution. Cheap recorded
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to show those social media, you're doing the wrong thing.
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I'm just trying to save your butt. Okay, I don't hold them
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you get the promotion.
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Americans no Joe Biden saw this coming all along and warned
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people in January about what was going to happen here.
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Opinions fall along partisan lines, but it does include 55%
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of independents who say they would prefer that Biden be
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handling the crisis. And 51% of Americans want Joe Biden
2:14:02
handling the economy. 44% say they'd rather it be Trump Willy
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Willy. That's pretty. Pretty remarkable. Number two, if you
2:14:12
look at Joe Biden on the economy, more Americans prefer
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Joe Biden handling the economy, Donald Trump's calling card, but
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he's always bragged about saying this is the difference between
2:14:26
him and other Republicans or him and Democrats. He knows how to
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do things. Well, no, actually Americans have seen his failures
2:14:35
in developing a strong testing regimen has kept this country
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closed longer. And if you look at his own doctors, if you look
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at his own scientist, if you listen to what nurses what
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medical providers say they all say and by the way, CEOs are
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saying it too, we can't reopen our economy until we strengthen
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our testing.
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Clooney I'm not a doctor, and I've never pretended to be a I
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don't have a fold up bicycle, for example, I don't feel the
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need to wear scrubs in the street. And indeed, I've never
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voted labour. I don't read the guardian. But let me introduce
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you to a scientist I think we should all be asking questions
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about his name is Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College. He
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runs models, and not beautiful women models, statistical
2:15:23
models, where he tells people how many deaths he thinks
2:15:27
there's going to be from a pandemic or other crisis. Neil
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Ferguson says lifting the lockdown could cost 100,000
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lives in the UK, and he's the guy that government are
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listening to right now. Which is why we're still under this
2:15:44
infernal house arrest that everybody seems to be clapping
2:15:48
their frying pans about. Let's look at some of Neil Ferguson's
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work in the past and see how accurate it's been. For bird
2:15:57
flu. He estimated using his very sophisticated models, there
2:16:01
might be 200 million deaths globally. There were in fact,
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292 when it came to swine flu, Professor focus and use his
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brilliant models, and he estimated there could be 65,000
2:16:16
deaths in the UK. There were in fact 457. Again, with Mad Cow
2:16:22
disease, a disease that I can relate to between 50 and 50,000
2:16:26
deaths in the UK, he said, And the correct answer was 177. And
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for COVID, he came out and said there may be 500,000 deaths.
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He's now saying there may be 100,000 If lockdown ends. And of
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course we have no way of knowing right now, how many deaths there
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will be. But it seems that Neil Ferguson is prone to
2:16:47
exaggeration. He's kind of like Gemma Collins on hormone
2:16:50
replacement therapy. Other scientists have challenged his
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thinking as well. Unsurprisingly, they say at best
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his models are crude estimations containing serious errors. So
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questions remain. Why aren't the mainstream media asking these
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questions? Why are we listening to this man who's about as
2:17:08
accurate as my five year old trying to be standing up?
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Everybody's saying it I see from CEOs to nurses. And so I think
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that's partly what you're saying. And those poll numbers
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that show Americans prefer Joe Biden to Donald Trump when it
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comes to handling the economy.
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And through all the chaos as you know, President Trump has
2:17:28
basically staked his presidency on a strong economy. It's where
2:17:32
he always goes when he's in trouble. Look at the
2:17:34
unemployment numbers, look at the stock market, as those have
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collapsed over the last couple of months. He no longer can hang
2:17:40
his hat on that. And you're seeing some of that in those
2:17:42
numbers in terms of opening up the economy. That same NPR poll
2:17:46
Mika was talking about asks whether it's a good or a bad
2:17:49
idea to resume certain normal activities without further
2:17:53
testing. 91% of Americans say it is a bad idea to allow people to
2:17:59
attend sporting events. 85% agree schools should remain
2:18:02
close 80% thing where I think restaurants should not allow
2:18:06
customers to dine in and 65% say it's a bad idea to allow people
2:18:11
to return to work without testing Mika this Coronavirus
2:18:15
with all of his followers and let them all hug each other and
2:18:17
kiss each other and have a big big rally. Big cocktail of
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disinfectant yeah and all take disinfected
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and all drop dead
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there you have it. There's your COVID for the this is the
2:18:33
beginning. There's more clips because it keeps going on for
2:18:36
another year.
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We can just we can we can take a vacation every year. And just
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tell you well here's what happened with COVID Everybody
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was perfect. Don't worry it'll it'll crank
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out another years where the COVID clean every wanted.
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And we have an unbelievable multi our best of end of show
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