Emanuel. Also, Boris Johnson and Jair Bolsonaro are among the other World Leaders who were already infected by the coronavirus. What can we learn from their experiences . And one leader has kept himself in a veritable bubble. Guess who . And 30 days from the American Election with one contender currently in the hospital, what is the state of the race right now . Nate cohen of the New York Times will tell us. First, here is my take. Let me begin by saying i wish President Trump and the first lady a safe and speedy recovery. I also hope that others who have been infected along the way who work with the president or attended an event with him have a mild case of the disease and a return to normalcy as soon as possible. The news out of the white house is sad, but perhaps it can remind us of all of the sad news around. We might have covid fatigue, but the virus does not. The number of people known to have died from covid19 has crossed 1 million worldwide, and that is probably a low figure. An analysis by the economist magazine indicates there may be as many as a million more uncounted deaths. It finds the true count in america is not 200,000 dead, but more like 300,000, which means that the country has lost as many people to covid in the last eight months as it did in the four years of combat during world war ii. And we are not done. Egged on by advisors and conservative pundits, the president keeps saying things like this. Were rounding the corner with or without a vaccine. They hate it when i say that but thats the way it is. The reality is the virus is still curesing throuoursing thr countries. India has half a million new cases every week and is on track to overtake the u. S. For most cumulative cases on the planet. Latin america has seen sharp spikes in some places. New waves have hit parts of europe and the united states. Tragic as the deaths are, the broader and more long lasting effects are likely to be economic. The World Economy is in the worst condition it has been since the Great Depression of the 1930s. And the effects of this downturn have been particularly tough on the most vulnerable sectors of society. Take a look at these charts showing the last three recessions in america. The green lines show the top 25 of income earners and the purple show the bottom 25. You will notice that in most recessions they lose a similar share of jobs. In the current recession, a qassem has opened up. The bottom 25 , the poorest among us, have seen their jobs evaporate. The jobs report released this week shows 36 of unemployed workers are now classified as permanently unemployed. A pugh survey found that 42 of americans have had someone in their household lose a job or wages because of covid19. Around 10 of adults, 23 million, say their households sometimes or often does not have enough food to eat according to the census bureau. And thats in america. Imagine the situation in countries like india. But the point is simple. We are in the midst of the worst Global Pandemic in 100 years. We are still not handling it well. We do not have good mass testing and tracing. We are not providing nearly enough Economic Relief to the tens of millions whose lives have been devastated not because they ran their businesses poorly, not because they acted irresponsibly, but because of a pandemic. Donald trumps unfortunate diagnosis could serve a useful purpose to remind us that we need to get our act together because we are all in this together. And lets get started. Let us get right to President Trump and covid19. Joining me is zeke emanuel, one of americas most important doctors and medical experts. He was an Obama White House advisor for health policy. He now advises the biden campaign. He is the author of a terrific new book which country has the worlds best health care. Welcome, zeke. In your book you scan the world. You really have a broader perspective. What i want to ask you is, when you look at donald trump and you look at what we know about how ill he is or the information were getting, what does to tell you that he has been given these two drugs, the remdesivir and the regeneron cocktail, would that be something you would give anyone out of abundant caution, particularly someone like President Trump, or does that tell you he is sicker than we think . He is definitely sicker than they have let on. All day friday they were underplaying resting comfortably when he was feverish, fatigued, his oxygen saturation was going on. You dont jump to remdesivir, which isnt yet indicated for the supposed condition he had, and you dont add in an experimental cocktail which hasnt been given an emergency use authorization unless you are really, really worried and things are much worse. Reading between the lines, he was very severely ill. I might say he was very severely ill, very rapidly in the course of events here. Assuming he got infected at the Amy Coney Barrett superspreader event last saturday, you know, he got really sick beginning wednesday, thursday, friday. That is very rapid situation in getting sick. So i think that let me ask you about that event, zeke, because one of the things that puzzles me, because so much of our weakness here has been testing, and it appears to me that they say that everyone is tested at the white house, they are tested before these events. Do you believe that . Because it does seem as though something is going wrong here if everyone is being tested all the time and you have the superspreader event. All right. Lets break it down. They are using a rapid test. Rapid tests not perfect. Their sensitivity, that is. How often it picks you up is 97 . That means three people who have the disease arent going to be picked up and thats the achilles heel here. They claim that at the Amy Coney Barrett superspreader event that no one test everyone was tested and no one was positive. There were 150 people there by my scan. Thats impossible by the sheer math. There should have been some false positives in that group. There were none. And they clearly missed some people. We are all looking at the outdoor event, but probably the superspreading event was the indoor event where people were close to each other. They were indoor. The air was not being circulated as well as it is outside. People are talking up because there is a lot of ambient noise. That is classic superspreading moments. I might add, this event tells me something we have to reemphasize to the american public. We are talking about the importance of Wearing Masks and thats absolutely important. But all of the modeling on superspreading events, if we keep groups to less than 20 people, thats the max you can have is 20 people. We could actually get rid of most superspreading events and that would make a major difference in limiting the spread of this disease. That hasnt been emphasized enough, and this Amy Coney Barrett superspreading event should emphasize that fact. Dont have 140 people. 20 people max and no more whether its a restaurant, indoors, in any other event. And let me ask you, again in your book you have looked at the whole world. You have seen other systems handling covid. If donald trump has a conversion like paul, what would you like to see him do . Because it does feel like we are still in danger of another spike. We still do not have the testing in place. You get one wish, if donald trump bot out of the hospital and said, zeke, what should i do . First of all, fareed, thank you for selecting my book for the book of the week and for reading it so carefully. So, the most important thing i think, if donald trump has a conversion experience, is that he adopt the Public Health measures and adopt them vigorously and urge everyone in the country to adopt them. As we can see from taiwan and new zealand and south korea but from italy and france and germany, adopting the Public Health measures seriously. So, you know, wearing a facemask, staying six feet apart, hand hygiene and no groups more than 20 and not opening up indoor places unnecessarily like restaurants and bars, you can get a hold of this and bring the number of cases, new cases down dramatically each day, and we can actually then ease up and have more liberties if everyone keeps doing those things. That is the key here because we know even without a vaccine, many other countries have been able to get their arms around this and diminish the number of cases, diminish the number of deaths, and lead a much more normal life than we can lead in the united states. Zeke emanuel, always a pleasure to have you on. Thank you, fareed. Appreciate it. Next on gps, what can history tell us about president s who have fallen ill . Tim neftali tells us the stories when we come back. But how do we make sure the direction were headed is forward . At fidelity, youll get the planning and advice to prepare you for the future, without sacrificing the things that are important to you today. Well help you plan for healthcare costs, taxes and any other uncertainties along the way. Because with fidelity, you can feel confident that the only direction youre moving is forward. But a resilient business you cacan be ready for it. Re. A Digital Foundation from vmware helps you redefine whats possible. Now. From the hospital shifting to remote patient care in just 48 hours. To the university moving hundreds of apps quickly to the cloud. Or the City Government Going Digital to keep Critical Services running. You are creating the future on the fly. And we are helping you do it. Vmware. Realize whats possible. Not invincible. They suffer from illness like everyone else, colds, flus, heart attacks and strokes. What can we learn from past president s who have taken ill . Tim naftali, the former director of the nixon library, a cnn president ial historian who teaches at nyu. Tim, welcome. I was thinking about it, you know, the last great Global Pandemic, the spanish influenza, we again had a president who got ill. It was fairly consequential, woodrow wilson. He got ill. The public wasnt told that he got the flu. The public was told that he got the cold, got a cold. The president was in paris. He was one of the, part of the group of great power leaders who were negotiating what would become the treaty of versailles ending world war i. He became delirious. He had a fever of 103. His physician admiral grayson told the press that he had a cold. They did not know that he had a fever. He in fact was delirious for four days. He began to become very paranoid about the possibility that he was surrounded by spies. He was convinced that the french had sent spies to figure out what his position would be in the negotiations to come. He started to complaining about the pattern of the colors of the furniture around him. He got better after four days, but never regained his strength and by the end of the month he suffered a small stroke. That would be the first stroke that he would suffer that year. He would suffer another one six months later, which would be a massive stroke. His doctor, admiral grayson, never shared with the American People the fact that he had the flu nor the severity of the massive stroke that hit him, and disabled him in october of 1919. This was a precedent for a tradition of white House Doctors not sharing with the American People the severity of the health or Health Crisis of the chief executive. So, the one thing where they did share a fair amount was ronald reagan. Reagan twice was in the hospital. Once he was shot and once he had a small cancerous tumor removed and his popularity went up, right . Did the reagan people handle it right . There is no question that the reagan people handled the question of president ial Health Better than any of their predecessors. The white House Doctors, the White House Team did not share with the American People the difficulty of the president s recovery after the assassination attempt in 1981. It took the president a lot longer. He was much more short of breath than the public knew. In 1985, when the president suffered a bout with colon cancer, the doctors were more upfront about the nature of the cancer. In fact, discussed the whole question of the possibility of spread. Fortunately, the news was very good. The president s cancer had not spread. But there was sort of more detailed discussion of the extent of his possible disability. That was helpful to the president and to the presidency. The public is always prepared to show compassion for an ailing president. What the public needs to know is the extent of the challenge to the president s health, and, thus, when the public hears good news after an operation, lets say in the case of cancer, the public then is confident that the chief executive is well on the way to recovery. If you dont set a standard of honesty, if the baseline is low of truth, its much harder for the public to really sense that the president is Getting Better and, therefore, the country is Getting Better. One quick thought about eisenhower, who had a heart attack, also gained in popularity, was much loved. Even though he went through a tough period, he never transferred power, did he, to his Vice President . The reason we have the 25th amendment which is the amendment people are discussing right now in the unfortunate event that President Trump is severely disabled by his illness and there will be a discussion of the possibility of transferring power to Vice President pence, the reason we have that constitutional procedure is the eisenhower period. Dwight eisenhower suffered a very significant heart attack in september of 1955. He was out of action for 3 1 2 months. Did he some work, but for the most part the country was, the business of the government was carried on by a group, a committee of four people. Now, its interesting that not one of those people was Vice President nixon. Dwight eisenhower didnt trust richard nixon, and there was no real process by which anyone could take over if the president were ill. If the president died, there was a some system. If the president was ill, there was no such system. In 1957 eisenhower suffered a small stroke. At that point he realized that it was irresponsible of him not to have set up a system and at that point he signed a letter which said that in the case of his incapacity, all of his power would flow directly to Vice President nixon. It was as a result of that experience that eisenhower became a proponent that there be a constitutional amendment so this wouldnt be a matter of a letter from a president to a Vice President , but there would actually be a system in place so congress understood and the American People understood that there was a chance a president would not be up to his duties or her duties someday and the power to be constitutionally transferred to the Vice President. Thank you very much. I add about trump, the one difference is a heart attack is not infectious. In the case of donald trump, this is all colored by the fact that the president perhaps, because of his own irresponsibility, may have exposed himself in a way that he, that other president s, its not quite comparable. Anyway, as always, tim, pleasure to have you on. Thank you, fareed. Next on gps, other World Leaders and how they dealt with covid19. Boris johnson, Jair Bolsonaro, and one more. Is someone trying to steal your butterfinger . Call the bfi. Woah. Im going in. No one lays a finger on your butterfinger. No one lays a finger with this seal, this restaurant is committing to higher levels of cleanliness. The expertise that helps keep hospitals clean, is helping keep businesses clean too. Look for the ecolab science certified seal. That selling carsarvana, 100 online wouldnt work. But we went to work. Building an experience that lets you shop over 17,000 cars from home. Creating a coast to Coast Network to deliver your car as soon as tomorrow. 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As a recent New York Times story reported, russia 12th on the list of covid deaths has a rather relaxed approach for most of its citizens, but president putin has tried to build a covidfree fortress for himself. Let us dig into all of this. Joining me is the reporter of that New York Times story on putin a putin. A Senior Editor of the economist and shasta joining us from sao paulo. Tell us about the transformation of Boris Johnson, because at the level of optics, he came across as a buoyant, carefree, you know, kind of figure full of life, larger than life before he got covid, and he now seems, i mean, maybe it would be too strong, but he seems a shadow of his former self. Yes, his personality and his political brand was larger than life, rather stuffy character who lived large and was also very funny. He, of course, could get some peoples backs up. He had a great amount of energy and there was something very special about the kind of boris pizzaz. I think what happened is he did contract coronavirus and quite seriously, and he was very, very ill indeed in hospital because he went late to hospital. I think he had the hope he could deal with it and carry on with the day job. Its very often not like that. Yes, of course, a transformation. He is certainly much more conscientious about preserving himself and others from the risk. But yet he is also not the stuffing out of him. He is on an interview tour at the moment. He does not look like his former self. His wattage feels very dimmed. And you have known him since college. You went to college with him. Is he a different person from the one you knew . Gosh, i think he is not thinking as fast as he was able to do before. There are rumors he has a sort of long covid. I dont think he was able to recover properly. He was very stressed afterwards. He tried to come back to work within a week to two weeks. If you are at the front of your mind in america, we dont know how serious Donald Trumps bout of the virus is. But in Boris Johnsons case, i definitely have seen the impact on someone who seemed to have a fantastically strong constitution of an ox and it has knocked him. It reminds us how serious it can be. What about bolsonaro, shasta . He seemed to he ridiculed it beforehand and then ended up with a fairly mild case of covid, right . Yeah, thats right, fareed. In some ways that played into his narrative. For months we had seen him shrugging it off, calling it a, quote unquote, little flu. Even attacking governors and mayors who tried to impose social distancing, who closed schools and closed businesses. Then all of a sudden in early July Bolsonaro himself tested positive. He went into isolation in the president ial residence. From the start he said he had a very mild case and he didnt appear to present any serious symptoms. Then he just spent much of his time on social media boasting about hydroxychloroquine. He said he was taking it. He actually posted videos of himself taking the pills and boasted that that was what was keeping him safe and strong. He really projected this image of resilience, of vigor, and something he said all along. If i were to get it with my athletic history, im sure i wouldnt have a very strong case. So after all these months of saying we shouldnt close down the economy, hunger and unemployment will kill more people than the virus itself, he now had his own personal experience to a certain degree to rely on to justify this attitude that he had all along. I think that he had his own Health Minister or former Health Minister whom he fired who said bolsonaro despite getting the illness has not gotten the lessons. Thats exactly right. And again in part because he ha. During it, supporters would gather outside of the president ial residence across this kind of moat, this little water canal, and he would greet them, sometimes with a mask, sometimes without a mask. Even though the numbers really havent come down, and brazil is one of the hardest hit countries with more than 4. 9 million cases of covid19, more than 145,000 people have died from it, he has been saying the more important thing is the economy. In fact, we have seen more and more governments kind of responding to that as the unemployment numbers have gone up. Businesses have reopened. Schools are talking about reopening. So this double discourse is really beginning to take its toll. Anton, tell us about russia where everybody is back to normal, including bars and everything, except for one man. Thats right. There was a really Strict Lockdown here in russia in april and may, and then starting in june things really went back to normal fast with the governments encouragement. People went back to work, restaurants, bars opened up. You rarely saw masks worn indoors. Kids went back to school on september 1st. And as you say, the one person who did not get back to normal was vladimir putin. He continues to do all of his cabinet meetings, his Security Council meetings by video link. He rarely sees people in person. The people he does see in person generally have to quarantine before seeing him for as much as two weeks. And the kremlin has even gone to the length of setting up these disinfectant tunnels that douse people in clouds of disinfectant before they enter to see putin both at the kremlin and at his private residence. And you point out, you know, if you think about trump and his cabinet meetings, which we see and, frankly, almost all of the leaders, putin has none of that. Members of his own cabinet have not seen him. He conducts all of his official business on computer, right . Yeah, i mean, the way one journalist who has covered the kremlin for 20 years explained it to me, people who want to see putin in person and are on the agenda, they have to quarantine. And its even to the extent that journalists who cover the kremlin, journalists who used to see putin every day and cover his every move, they have not seen him up close since march. Putin has really cut himself off entirely. You have somebody in any case isolated from the country becoming more isolated. And this is well known. You point out that russian tv did a story on his electronic setup at his desk on the kremlin, which is all people can see. Yeah. Its really remarkable. There arent photographers around him anymore from various news agencies. There is just the one video feed, the official video feed that we have from the kremlin. Thats all we can see. And there is even, there was even a russian report last week that there were two hotels in the city of sochi on the black sea set up specifically for people to quarantine in before they went to see putin. Well, it sounds like he is not getting covid anytime soon. Thank you all. This is a fascinating panel. Recommend learned a lot. Thank you. Thank you. Next on gps, with 30 days away from the 2020 president ial election, about 3 million votes have already been cast. So who is going to be the next president . While nobodies knows, but my next guest probably knows more been it than the rest of us. Nate cohen when we come back. Nellie young lost her devoted husband. Without him, things were tough. Her last option was to sell her home, but. Her home meant everything to her. Her husband had been a High School Football coach and it turned out, one of his former players came up with an answer. A loan, created just for older homeowners. 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Is that largely about the debate . People often say debates dont matter. Did this one matter . There is a long history of debates having a shortterm effect in the polls. Its possible this will be seen in a similar light. He look at all of the polls since the first debate, i think it suggests that joe bidens lead has maybe grown by a point or so compared to the polls taken immediately before the debate. Whether that lasts and whether thats overtaken by events is of course a separate question at this point. The interesting thing about your article, you point out the stability of bidens lead. Trump realized biden was his most fearsome opponent. Thats where as why the ukraine gambit happened. If you have the chart in the New York Times where you show since 1996th lead that every candidate has had, and basically if you look at the graph, the higher, the better, bidens lead is higher than really anybody since clintons lead over bob dole. What does that tell you . Well, we have had a deeply polariz polarized era in politics since 2000. Elections have been close and relatively stable with really only a few fleeting moments when either party has been able to claim a relatively significant lead. In this election we have seen something very different in one important respect. Joe biden has been ahead by at least six points and probably more than that since june 1st. At times he has had more significant leads, like the nine point lead after the death of george floyd in june. The stability of the race is fairly typical of this more recent era, of polarized elections in american politics. The facts that we have the stability of polarization and a wide biden lead is really interesting and really important and may bode well for joe bidens ability to withstand any late surprises of the sort we have had in the first few days of this month. So, in a sense, what you are saying is, if you take that coupled with trumps disapproval rating, which has been fairly steady, one way to read the poll, since trump was elected a majority of americans did not approve of his performance and while, for whatever reasons, they had not been willing to support Hillary Clinton once they realized that joe biden was the alternative, a majority, you know, a plurality said wed rather have biden than him. You take all the noise out, thats the story. It is totally possible that when all of the votes are counted joe biden will win this election decisively. We will look back over the past five years of polling, from when donald trump first announced his president ial bid and say donald trump was never popular. He was never close to popular. He wasnt popular in 2016 and never popular as a president. He happened to win in a very unusual set of circumstances in 2016 because he faced the second least popular president ial candidate in history, only more popular than himself. He did fail to win the most votes overall. And when the democrats nominated a fairly boring generic candidate who called the lid at 9 00 a. M. Every day, the democrats were able to cruise to an easy victory. That may not happen. I think thats entirely possible the way it will play out at this point. The National Polls were right in 2016, roughly, right . But the state polls were not. State polls generally are not as sophisticated. What gives you in order for you to have the thesis you have, do you have greater confidence in the state polls, particularly in the swing states this time . I do on balance. Its important to note that the polls can always be wrong. In terms of what went wrong last time, i think there are good reasons to think that another polling misfire is less likely. One reason is that the pollsters are taking more steps to represent less educated voters. The president fairs well among lest educated voters. They have been likely to respond to telephone surveys. In 2016 the National Polls adjusted to make sure they had the number of less educated voters. This time the state polls are significantly less educated than last time, but they still show joe biden with a lead. Second reason is that there are fewer undecided voters than last time. And i think the race really did change at the end of october in 2016 after the jim comey letter, after the president ial debate and i think that meant that there was a real shift that maybe we wouldnt expect to happen this time given the stability of the race. The third reason, the National Polls show joe biden leading this time as they did at many points in 2016, joe bidens lead is bigger and they also show him doing better than Hillary Clinton among white voters without a degree. Thats the voting block that got donald trump over the hump last time in the critical midwestern battleground states. In some cases more than half of the electorate. The National Polls do not show donald trump running out the historic margin among that group they showed last time. All right. We have 30 seconds, nate. Is there an october surprise that could change your mind . I mean, look, this election has been wild. We have had an unprecedented pandemic. The nation was shook by unrest. The president is in the hospital right now and through it all the race has been extremely stable. So at this point if the race changes, you know, there is no way i could rule out the possibility that the race would change. Based on what we have seen to this point, i will take it ill sort of believe it when i see it attitude. Nate cohn, always a pleasure. Thanks for having me. When we come back, covid19 and cities. Will they stay empty or can they come back . 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People shuttered in place are scattered to the suburbs. Professionals ditched their shared Office Spaces in favor of a laptop and zoom. As the energy of the worlds most dazzling cities was replaced by an eerie quiet, many asked, will people ever come back . My bet in the book is, yes, the pattern we are watching is familiar. For centuries den zblens of cities have abandoned their urban homes in times of trouble, but they always return. They return and reinvent their cities. During the worst plague in Human History people emptied out of the cities in florence, they launched the renaissance. Cities that burned and flooded, they faced disease and war, and time and time again they have built back better. Increasing health, safety, and Sustainability Standards with each rebirth. In a smart essay in the atlantic, Derek Thompson writes that natural and man made catastrophes have shaped the wuerls cities throughout history. The relentless epidemics raging through british cities during the Industrial Revolution gave rise to the ideas about the role of the state and ensuring Public Health, particularly when it came to waste and water management. New york citys worldrenowned underground subway system was innovated following the worst blizzard in u. S. History in the late 1800s. Around the same time a fire decimated three chicago city square miles in just three days. Determined that chicago would rise again, the citys buildings were rebuilt to be taller and stronger. In fact, they are unprecedented height thompson writes earned these structures a new name. Skyscraper. Leadership matters. The worlds major cities should have been better prepared for this disaster of a pandemic. New york and london both bungled covid19 early on despite their vast resources. Those cities will have to make long overdue changes to rebound with future threats to our health and mind. They could look at taipei and seoul and berlin as models. Cities are especially susceptible to pandemics, but good Public Policy can make life safe in an epidemic. We will need urban innovation because by 2050 the u. N. Estimates that more than twothirds of human beings will live in cities. After all, the 2018 brooking study found the worlds 300 biggest metropolitan areas produced twothirds of all gdp growth. Cities have always been and will continue to be centers of innovation and ideas and diversity. Human connection, after all, is essential to all of this. As i write in my book, humans create cities and cities create humans. The reason our cities grow and endure even when faced with calamities is because most of us are naturally drawn to participation, collaboration, and competition. Rationalizations for city living vary. Work, companionship, entertainment, culture, or all of the above. But beneath those outward reasons lie deep urges towards social interaction. 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