In fact, new york now has more cases than germany, france, the u. K. , and china. S although u. S. Intel says chinas numbers are not accurate. The new york apex of cases could be anywhere from seven to 30 days away. The experts who study hospitalizationer numbers in new york say they believe the apex is closer to seven days. Here in california for the fourth day in a row the curve is beginning to flatten. Today california has just over 1,000 new cases and 24 new deaths. In the meantimee louisiana is seeing a jump in new cases with more than 2737 new deaths. Experts say the big increase could be because of a backlog in testing. They wont know that for a couple of days. In florida after some political backandforth, the cruise ships have docked in fort lauderdale. The sick were taken to hospitals and those who tested positive for covid are being quarantined. All other passengers are. Being screened. Finally, italy, the country with the most covid deaths is bending its curve. Experts say the magic number there is the percentage of increase in total cases, including those who died and those who have been cured. Two weeks ago the number was above 12 . Today it is just above 4 . That is great news and the u. S. Curve is reportedly two weeks, a little more than two weeks behind italy. Tucker . Tucker thank you so much for that. The question of masks, face masks have been a center of our conversation with how to respond to coronavirus for a couple of months today. They protect ourfa First Responders and we know that. There is no question they could protect the entire population, but we dont have enough of them. For the past couple of weeks weve been trying to figure out why . Why are we short for something as simple as a mask . As today, about two hours ago actually, i had a phone conversation with someone who is trying to get masks for his state, the state of florida. That conversation was so compelling and so upsetting that at the last minute we scrapped our original plans for tonights show and we move this interview to the top. That person is jared moscowitz, the director of the Florida Division management. We are happy to have him on. Thank you so much for coming on. Simple question, repeat for our audience if you would, what you told me about your efforts to get masks for your state, which by the way is your job. Whatwo happened . Thank you, i appreciate you having me on. Appreciate you featuring the story. Its important for all the Health Care Workers and nurses and doctors and First Responders on the front line. No, listen, for the last several weeks we have had like a boiler room. Weve been chasing down 3m authorized distributors, brokers, representing that they sell the n95 masks and that they only get to warehouses that are completely empty. Where being told that our shipments are on cargo planes and the flights dont even appear. We are chasing ghosts. I just decided to turn up the heat and tell people what is actually happening with the n95 masks. G 3m reached out to us today, their Government Relations folks wanted to have aa conversation and i thought perhaps maybe what 3m would finally say to me is that they have masks to sell me, but what i actually found out is even more frightening. Its what we expected, the system is completely broken. The authorized distributors who right now cant tell me a timeline with when i will receive my masks, the order i put in a month ago. By the way, the terms and conditions are i have to pay for the masks and cant cancel my order. Av 3m has lost total control. What i asked 3m is that, are they aware they are authorized distributors . U. S. Companies are telling me the reason why our orders are being pushed down is because Foreign Countries are showing up with cash to purchase the orders. When i told 3m of that, not only did they do not dispute it. I asked them if they put any guidelines to prevent the behavior and the answer was no. Pwhen i asked 3m, what is your production . They said theyre making 10 3 Million Masks a week. When i said great, i have money and i would like to purchase some of those. They said i couldnt, they have no masks to sell me. Its criminal what is happening. I want to Say Something very clear, this is not about the workers in the factories and 3m who are working 24 hours a day to try to create this lifesaving pb. This is about the executives who decided not to put America First and its going to have devastating consequences. Tucker i just want to encapsulate what you said because i want this to sink in for the audience. You try to get an answer and youre in charge of procuring these for the First Responders in florida. Your not just some guy off the street. Your a government officialal a trying to help the state that is becoming one of the centers of the outbreak, florida. You basically got the runaround. You went after 3m on twitter and they responded. People noticed it and they responded and you said, why cant i get it . They said, i have no control. Our dealers are selling some of these masks to Foreign Countries because they got there first and theyre paying cash. You said, shouldnt you tell your distributors to make a priority for america . For the states, the local governments, the First Responders, nurses, emts . They said no, we havent done that. Is that a fair summary . Not only is that a fair summary, its exactly what has happened. That is why the governor said its shady as hell. 3m is an Ice Cream Store that doesnt sell ice cream. Since when do we have a u. S. Company that doesnt solve masks and i tried to offer them moneyy and they dont sell them to me . I have to go through their authorized distributors and their only excuse is that they dont have a perfect system. That is great they dont have a perfect system and im relegated to making deals with brokers at costs that are ten and sometimes 20 times the actual costs of these masks. At the end of the day, tucker, regardless of the cost of this point, getting in the mask is the most important. We cant even get them. Tucker i guess for me, you represent florida and if they said im sorry, michigan got their first or california is on the list or new york has a massive outbreak. They need these masks. I think everyone would understand that. You learn that these masks are literally being sold to Foreign Countries in the middle of a pandemic for which we are suffering profoundly. I guess Michael Roman who is the ceo of this company who is doing something on tv, he never told the distributors that this country comes first. That is bizarre to me, it is shocking. Et the funny thing is that that is not a rumor. That is not something that was suggested. The 3m authorized distributors, theres only 20 companies, the 3m authorized interpreters are telling me this. Theyre specifically saying, listen, we are sorry your order got pushed down, but there are folks showing up to the factories. There are folks showing up to us, calling us, paying cash forf it. I said, what do you mean there are folks . They said listen, there are Foreign Countries who do business differently and their showing up with cash. The idea that an American Company is selling masks away from our hospitals, away from our doctors, away from the real heroes on the front lines is something that will long be investigated after this. Its really criminal what is happening. I cant, i cant, other management directors, ceos of hospitals cant get this i lifesaving ppe because at company decided to make a globalist decision and not put America First. Y tucker you would think the Government Affairs guy who called you today would have thought, this is pretty disgusting what im defending. Maybe i will send a memo to Michael Roman and say hey, mr. Ceo, you should tell your t distributors to put the state of florida above say, china. Jerry moscowitz, im thankfull you came on tonight. That is the most vivid description ive heard. I appreciate it. Tucker, thank you. I appreciate the opportunity. Tucker amazingly as coronavirus looms larger and larger in the distance since being at high speed, our government did nothing to stop the export of goods that could is prove essential if youre not just masks, though including masks. Throughout january and february this country, its Companies Exported 69 worth of masks, ventilators, and personalry protective gear to china who started all of this. Today the white house issued an executive order to hold some of those exports. Ar Hillary Vaughn has been on top of the story and we are happy to have her here. The white house trade advisor Just Announced an order. The president will sign it tomorrow. It will crackdown and show no mercy to the socalled shady brokers that are bidding up and shipping out needed medical equipment to other countries. The new order will be enforced by customs and border patrol. The brokers come in, there bidding and bidding on all of these ppe, driving the price up and guess what . You know where its going . The domestic sources here are being exported. Yo when President Trump heard about that he said, thats not going to happen anymore under my mpwatch. Some states struggling with the supply shortage still, supplies are being shipped out of the country by the boatload. Reports of suppliesti going to germany, belgium, and japan. Here in the United States the shortage is serious. A Miami Company told their workers to reuse the same one for a week, but we have learned a u. S. Agency for International Development had a warehouse of masks sitting dormant in miami. I told the masks were emptied and then exported. We are told the administration has stopped sending aid packages with the protective gear overseas. We also talked with several Major Medical supply distributors who tell us they are still sending loads of equipment to other countries. One company sent ventilators to wuhan china in february. One of the problems is theeto u. Hasnt stopped exports of in demand medical supplies like other countries have. Since march 24th, 50 countries have put roadblocks up to stop foreign buyers from scooping up vital supplies, but the u. S. Has not. Tucker, that could change because tonight he administration source. Tells us that theyre looking into a next stepe that would crackdown potentially on companies that are shipping these medical supplies to other countries. Tucker . Tucker hillary, thank you so much for that report. I appreciate it. Public Health Authorities are telling us the entire country may stand under house arrest four months. Is that a goodin idea . When would it end . How much would it cost . What would the country look like after . Two very different questions, two different guests with two very different points of views join us after the break. There are times when our need to connect really matters. To keep customers and employees in the know. To keep business moving. Comcast business is prepared for times like these. Powered by the nations largest gigspeed network. To help give you the speed, reliability, and security you need. Tools to manage your business from any device, anywhere. And a team of experts here for you 24 7. Weve always believed in the power of working together. Thats why, when every connection counts. You can count on us. Tucker as you saw today, maybe you know from personal experience, 6. 6 million americans filed on employment claims last week. Thats on top of more than 3 million new claims the week before. So far over 10 million americans have lost their jobs because of government mandated shutdown in response to coronavirus. How may people is that . Its more than live in new york city. There areru 41 american states with total populations smaller than this group of newly jobless workers. Take a look at this graph of unemployment claims through the department of labor. We dont use a lot of graphs on the show. This one will give you a sense of how unusual this event is. Dont read the numbers, just look at the line on the bottom. G you will see a fairly Straight Line with some bumps that ends with a sharply steep spike. That spike is right now. The timeline you are looking at extends over 53 years. When the government began measuringow unemployment claims, the vietnam war was still a full year from its peak. Ex we have weathered a lot ofof traumatic events since that, the oil shock, 9 11, the collapse of our industrial economy. It nothing, none of this can remotely came close to the economic effect the coronavirus shutdown t has had in americaec already. The scale of this hasnt quite registered yet. Our leaders still seem far more afraid of a virus that probably killsha fewer than 1 infected d the prospect of a third of all americanss losing jobs. We dont judge anyone for that. There is something uniquely panic inducing about Infectious Disease. The fear of it is in our bones, we were born with it. Still, this is a moment, it will pass. A year from now, what will seem scarier . The chinese coronavirus or the neconomic devastation . It is worth thinking about that as we move forward. We cant. Thinking about things like that has been cast as a moral crime by our penny making class. Last week we did a segment with Lieutenant Governor of texas, dan patrick. He is 70 years old and he has the profile that makes him especially vulnerable to this virus. Like most people in his position he is worried about being infected. You would be too. He doesnt want to get sick or die. He also has other worries. He doesnt want to see america destroyed. He wants his grandchildren to grow up in the same kind of country that he did, prosperous, stable, employed. He said all of that on our show last monday. Almost immediately the media outrage machine begin belching smoke and making loud noises. He has told people to die for the stock market no, dan patrick was not doing that, not even close. He didnt see anything like that on the air and thats not what he meant. Ri it didnt matter. Ev he was vilified in dozens of new stories. Saying hee was trying to kill te elderly to boost exxon share prices. An environment like this one where we react emotionally and continent people have the loudest megaphones, its nearly impossible to see clearly or make wise decisions. That is true of everyone, in particular of everyone in power. Even our most impressive and thoughtful officials. Yesterdays briefing, Anthony Fauci was asked when the restrictions on normal life will end in this country, here is how he replied. If we get to the part of the curve that dr. Birx showed yesterday, when it goes down to essentially no new cases, no deaths. Tucker it will be fixed when we have no new cases and no deaths. How long will that be . Almost nobody thought to ask. We have to beat this disease. Details are relevant that is the feeling in washington right now and certainly in the press corps that covers it. Details are always relevant and there is always a limit to what we can pay, that is always true. Decisions we make today will echo for decades. They could radically change the future of this country. We need to try harder to keep perspective and to remain persistently openminded in thet face of this. What wouldve happened if we adopted a more conventional response to this epidemic . What if we asked the elderly and immunocompromised and anyone else facing statistically higher rates and risk to stay inside. At the same time allow the rest of the population to use and form common sense and continue to work . What if we had done that a month ago . On with the death rate today be much higher than it is now . Maybe, maybe not. We dont know. Its a conversation we shouldve had before we locked the entire country down and put 10 Million People out of work. We didnt have that conversation. D instead we outsourced the decision to Public Health officials and that is a strange irony of the moment were living through. One of the main lessons of this crisis is at the Public Health establishment failed us badly. Hl the World Health Organization colluded with the Chinese Government to lie about critically relevant facts are in the early days of the outbreak. Once the coronavirus reached ouh shores, the cdc couldnt seem to produce working tests, those were disasters. Many people died because the people we trusted to protect our health didnt do it. They have been thoroughly discredited. At the same time though, we are being asked to trust these same people without hesitation and for the most part we are doing that. In other words, the expertsit failed, yet the experts now have more power than ever before. Its bewildering, in fact its reminiscent of 2008 when reckless behavior by the banks crippled the economy across the middle class. When it came to attempt to fix it, we put bankers in charge of the cleanup. This is not an argument against expertise. Its not a populist argument. Of course bankers understand finance, epidemiologists understand coronavirus. Turning to experts make sense and we should and hopefully we always will. We cant allow experts to make the big decisions. That is not their job. This is a democracy. It ise our job. He is an Infectious Disease expert and he is recovering from a coronavirus infection. We are happy to have you on. Thank you for coming on. Good to meet you. Tucker im glad you could be with us given what youve been going through recently. Let me ask that completely theoretical question. I dont know the answer to it but you may come closer. What is your view of this . If a month and a half ago we decided that people at great risk, we could figure out what it might be, the elderly, would basically be quarantined and other people would use common sense and continue on, how different do you think the death rates would be at this point . If we had done that . As you just said, its really impossible to know because we didnt try that experiment. On the other hand, i am not sure that the rest of the argument follows. We talk about the direct effects of people becoming ill and dying of this coronavirus infection. In new york however, the hospitals are completelyir overwhelmed and they cant take care people with other syndromes, heart disease, trauma, stroke, other Infectious Diseases. El its not just the direct effects of the coronavirus. Its the impact on the whole health care system. Tucker i agree. We have made that case. The other thing is, the experts now that you are referring to, there are far more of us at the time that this first report had a very small group of people working on this. You mentioned the cdc, some people at nh and so forth. At this point, academics, institute, various types doing research, are all engaged. We are all in this together. I think the data we have is a result is much better than whate we had. Tucker i am willing to believe that. Im willing to believe almost everything i hear, but i want you go back a couple of sentences. The death rate numbers, every day on Television Im hearing the experts that were both referring to say with great confidence, with the death rate will be under this or that scenario. Here is how much we will lower edge and flatten the curve if we quarantine the whole country. Why are they pretending to be so certain about something that they cant know . We both agree they cant know, why are they talking like that . The one thing we do know is that based on what weve seen in other countries. Kn i was in china in january and i saw what happened in wuhan and when i came back here i tried to explain the risk. We did not move rapidly enough. Im not casting aspersions on anyone, that is not it. Tucker i agree. What we need to do now is make a concerted decision. I think it should be made at the National Level as to what we are going to do. If we have a haphazard patch quilt of some states doing one thing and other states do another, it is very difficult to know where we are going to go. I think President Trump at this point, he clearly has a mandate to make whatever decisions he thinks are most in the public interest. My feeling is that if we actually do this on a National Level, invested the time, did it thoughtfully,al would we be outf this sooner rather than later. If we dont do that we are going to have the same amount of pain, perhaps even more. I think we could get out of this in a matter of two months, if we focused. We are stillll not focused. Tucker right. Thank you so much for coming on. You are one of the people who really brought this to the floor and im grateful to you for doing that and being as outspoken as you have. I fully support what you are trying to do, which is reach a broad slot for the american people. We will get through this, but we have to do it together and we have to do it with thought. Tucker i agree with you on the last point. Im concerned about the cost of the longterm effects of thiss s starting to scare me. Its scaring me too. Tucker i think you made some really thoughtful points. Thank you. Ts byebye. Tucker Alex Berenson is a former New York Times reporter who wrote a fantastic book we featured a couple of times on this show, but for the last month or six weeks he has been deep into the numbers. As a layman, but a highly informed one. We want to talk to a him tonight for a counter view on this question. Thank you for coming out tonight. You have heard of course the case that the doctor made and i thought it was a pretty restrained, thoughtful case, but itsho c a variation of what wee been hearing a lot. What is your opinion of it . Heres what i would say, im not an epidemiologist, im not a scientist, and from the same perspective i came out with when i wrote the book, we talked about that a couple of times. Im a journalist and what i think im pretty good at is seeing whether what people say lines up with what is really happening. Unfortunately what we are seeing and what we have seen for the last couple of weeks is that the models have predicted apocalyptic things in places like new york city and in the u. K. They dont some to be what is going on in reality. In some cases, these epidemiologic models are new. They have got extremely south in a matter of days. I think we have to ask, what is going on here . Whether or not there are strategies that might be less damaging to the economy that would do just as well. We have taken huge steps. We have put 10 Million People out of work, more actually. We have caused real societal harm by disruption and we have done it on the basis of models that dont seem to line up with the reality in real time. Tucker let me ask you now and this is a conversation we will continue on the show. Taking a look at predictions and the outcome, its important to keep track. Give us a couple of examples about what youre talking about when you said the models have improved accurate results. The a most recent one is the university of washington model. It was created and released only a week ago. As of today, predicted that as of today thered be about 50,000 people in new york state hospitalized with coronavirus. There are about 12 or 13,000. This is a model, the numbers in a week have been off by a factoo of four. That is also true for icu bids, the delta there is about 31. Meanwhile there is a state model and oregon that has gotten very little attention. It was just revised on monday to show that if oregon did nothing, if it ended the lock down, the states own prediction, there would be 90 people in icu beds at the beginning of may. This is a state with more than 4 Million People. If the lockdown continued there would be 30 people. That is two people a day different being in icu versus not. The question is, are we going to lock the state of oregon down,n cause real societal disruption . Close schools, force kids to be home with parents. In some cases, maybe stress. Theyll be out of sight of teachers. En im very worried about the Domestic Violence and child abuse. Tucker i agree. The alcoholism and the suicide, you are right. Exactly. Economic harm is a real harm. To me the question is not, should we do something . Yes, of course we need to do something. Do these lockdowns make senseit when we cant even necessarily figure out how theyre working . Tucker i want to have you back because i think i want to have a lot of people back. This is a rational approach you are taking. Others are as well. I think that is the way to make decisions, especially in crisis. I appreciate coming out tonight. Thanks. Tucker the New York Times downplayed the coronavirus for weeks. They did so in public, but now they have decided to shift the blame from themselves to this program. Well tell you what theyre saying. Ve first another look at the Current Situation in the city of los angeles. Restaurants have always been there for you. And even though tables are empty at the moment. Now you can be there for them. While the doors may be closed, the kitchens are open for delivery. Dont lie from americas news tucker headquarters, the economic fallout from the coronavirus now is worldwide case is now 1 million. Closing the final for the spread of the virus, 10 million americans lost their jobs in two weeks. We saw a record shattering 6. 6 million new unemployment claims on top of last weeks unprecedented 3. 3 million. If there is currently more than 240,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the u. S. And nearly 6,000 deaths. The cruise ship with coronavirus patients aboard now docked in florida in the van dam in the sister ship unloaded passengers on the everglades on thursday. It followed days of negotiation with the fear that it would divert resources from florida residents. Back to Tucker Carlson tonigh Tucker Carlson tonight. Tucker the New York Times, in case you dont read it, its still being published where they were in a piece with his headline, alarm, denial, blame, the trump media distortion. In the telling of the New York Times, coronavirus on this coverage followed a certain pattern. The pattern they told us went this way. Blame china. According to the New York Times, when the virus ravaged china, some pundits on the right warned the country couldnt be trusted to contain the outbreak or share Accurate Information about where it originated. [laughs] can you believe they thought that . Where did they get that idea . Because it is true. Thethat New York Times doesnt admit that. Step two, playing down the risks followed by step three. Share survivor stories to show the virus wasnt so bad. Step four, blame the left. As you are aware from watching this program and from living in this country, whatever these people accuse you of doing is 100 of the time exactly whatm theyre doing themselves. That of course was the case here. As you know the establishment press has been screwing up coronavirus stories from day one. There are four steps to understanding their coverage and heres what they are for the first step as usual, blame racism. Your two New York Times headlines in the early day of the outbreak, an outbreak of racist sentiment as coronavirus reaches australia. Peoples bad opinions are worse than a pandemic s here is another, fear spreads faster than the coronavirus cells. Okay. As the virus kept spreading there was step two, play down the risk. As the New York Times did on january 29, the paper warns you to be weary of the pandemic panic, calm down a week later they asked, who says its not safe to travel to china . Book a ticket to wuhan, racist . Somehow telling the public that coronavirus was no big deal didnt contain the virus, so the times went to step three, politicize the crisis. Calling the coronavirus the chinese virus or the wuhan virus is bigotry, but they had no problem publishing an oped saying, lets call it trumpmp virus. Last week in a shameful moment that will live forever in the infamy. The paper declared, the road to coronavirus hell was paved by evangelicals. Its really the fault of christians, that tells you a lot. This week the paper settled on its favorite step. Step four, blame fox news. Of course, as if there is a political strategy here. Last week they warned about foxs fake news contagion. There was yesterdays article. Talk about a lie. This show was telling you about the disease in january, when the times was wondering if it was racist. They were encouraging you to travel to wuhan for vacation now we are highlighting the continued dishonesty and malevolence of china. Meanwhile the New York Times and the star reporter is going over to msnbc to deliver unpaid infomercials for the Chinese Communist party. T watch this. In china there are 40,000 doctors, nurses, respiratory technicians going all over from china to wuhan to help the doctors fight the virus. There is no more virus in wuhan. Those doctors have all gone home. Thereve been victory parades for them, gratitude, flowers, everything for their heroes. They not only have the skills, a lot of them caught the virus and are now immune. They could do a lot of things that would be dangerous to somebody who hasnt got thell virus. I dont see why we couldnt hire for our pandemic a lot of those doctors, nurses, respiratory technicians. Tucker if you are donald mcneils editor and you are watching this, are you calling his supervisor saying, bring him in he is giving away the truth bring in chinese doctors tois rn our hospitals. That is his take. That is not surprising though, apparently chinese doctors already runn the New York Times. New unemployment figures s are horrifying, the largest in American History by an order of magnitude. In two weeks ten Million People have lost their jobs. Ng where exactly are we headed and what can we do to stem the bleeding at this point . People are getting worried, as they should. Melissa francis hosts after the bell on fox business and she joins us. Hey tucker, you saw those numbers today and they are bad. Theyre really bad and what is terrifying about them as you highlighted, its only the beginning. What we have done is we have shut down the economy. We have kept all the customers inside. All the businesses have shut their doors, basically except for the ones that are delivering our essentials. The rest have fired or for loaded their employees. That means now those businesses, whether we are talking about macys, the airlines, hotels, they now cant pay their suppliers and they cant pay their rent. Those suppliers, same problem, they cant pay their rent. They cant pay their bills. If you watch the train reaction go through the economy, it goes back to the bank. The last crisis started with the bank and went down to the bottom. This one started bottom up. As it goes around and around, the banks are the ones who will ultimately be left holding the bag. What do they do . Did they all simultaneously go and foreclose on every airplane, restaurant, belden, every chair and factory . No. They dont want those things. What are they going to do with them . It all goes back to the bank. The same thing is happening all around the world. Just to make it worse, this is happening on a global level. We are watching a massive meltdown and when you ask, how do you stop the bleeding . I dont know who knows that answer. The only thing you can think of parrots and people in economic circles are talking about, is there a way to press pause . Nobody pays anyone. Rather than the guy in the middle saying, i cant pay you and i also cant get paid. Do we press pause somehow . It would take the bestay financl minds to figure out how exactly would you do that . I dont know. It is a massive problem. It is getting worse and its happening everywhere in the globe. Im glad jamie dimon is back on the job at jpmorgan. He is one of the smartest bankers out there. We will need everybody to get together and find a solution. Tucker iil have no sense of how complex that would be, but that does seem theoretically like a wise solution. Take aoe holiday on payment for everybody for a couple of months. Melissa francis, thank you so much for that. Interesting, sad. Almost all of europe has locked down, pretty much completely to contain this pandemic, but one country tonight, steadfastly refuses to go along and shut down. How isgh that working . Matt finn helps us take a look at what is happening in sweden. There might be lessons for us. The fda approved the first blood test for coronavirus. Dr. Siegel is here to explain why that matters, how that works and what it means for you. A quick look at new york city, a ghost town. Town. At Fisher Investments, we do things differently and other Money Managers dont understand why. Because our way works great for us but not for your clients. Thats why were a fiduciary, obligated to put clients first. So, what do you provide . Cookie cutter portfolios . Nope. We tailor portfolios to our clients needs. But you do sell investments that earn you high commissions, right . We dont have those. So, whats in it for you . Our fees are structured so we do better when our clients do better. At Fisher Investments were clearly different. People at higher risk, must take extra precautions. You are at higher risk if you are over 65, or if you have any serious underlying medical conditions, like heart disease, chronic lung disease, diabetes, or if your immune system is compromised for any reason. If youre at higher risk, wash your hands frequently with soap and water for twenty seconds. Avoid touching your face. Disinfect frequently touched objects. And wash up after being in public spaces. And when it comes to social situations. Less is better. Stay six feet or two arm lengths away from other people. Better still, stay home if you can. If youre sick, please stay home and away from others. And if you think youve been exposed to the virus, call your Health Care Provider before going to their office. In challenging times, the choices you make are critical. Please visit coronavirus. Gov for more information. Tucker most of the continent of europe has implemented strict lockdowns to contain the spread of this virus. In sweden, authorities are trying to very different strategy, one you might not have predicted. Under the swedish approach, life is more normal, more people are going about their daily lives. The question, is it working . If so, how . Matt finn is here to explain what is happening in sweden. To very different strategy, one swedish people are being advised to stay home if theyre sick, to wash their hands, but in general people, businesses, and schools are being trusted to figure out what precautions they want to take. Authoreo Frederick Erickson wris in an article, in a liberal democracy you have to convince, not command people into action. Notherwise you lose your soul. The author acknowledges that swedish people could expect their coronavirus death rate to rise faster than other countries in lock down, but compares that death rate to be within the confines of a bad winter flu. The countrys Prime Minister has so far dismissed calls for a lock down, say not everything can be banned and legislated. The chief epidemiologists at other nations have taken overly drastic measures such as closing schools or eliminating gatherings to ten people. Restaurants are open, but not bussing. People are working from home, as temperatures rise, people are congregating in public. Gatherings are limited to 50 people or less. People over the age of 70 areer being asked to self isolate. Sweden has 10 Million People. The latest number from john hopkins indicates a total of 308 deaths in the entire nation. More than half of swedish households are made up of one person which perhaps limits their risk. Tucker . Tucker interesting, interesting story. Not what you would expect from a nation that makes that. Matt finn, thank you. The fda just approved its first blood test for coronavirus. Will that help us fight to this disease . How does it work . How can you get one . For that we turn to marc siegel. Doctor, thank you for coming on tonight. This is something that you have been hoping for for an awfully long time. What is this exactly . Tucker, this is called pointofcare testing. Rapid testing that can give you results in just a few minutes. There are a few different kinds of tests, one when you test for the virus itself. The other where you do a blood test, you test for immunity. That is what youre talking about tonight. Silex was approved to see whether we can tell who has had this virus and who is immune to it. Who can go back into society. We are not entirely there yet. I spoke to admiral gerard today who was the assistant secretary of hhs under alex azar. He is in charge of testing for the president s task force but heres what he said. He acknowledged a test we have already, the ones that are on the big mobile units s that require all of his protective reequipment, they have a 1 out of 3 rate of notal getting it right. They say you dont have the virus when you actually do. As per the wall street journals report today. That is the first problem. O. He likes the abbott test which is a rapid test that does genetics inside your nose and tells you within 13 minutes whether you have this or not. That is another pointofcare test that says, you have the virus, you dont have the virus. As you might imagine if i can figure out who has the virus i can figure out who has it and flatten the curve. That test, this is breaking news, that is already around the country in 800 tiny boxes that we are to use for the flu. We can now usend for coronaviru. Its ready to go. The next step is these immunological tests where we for antibodies. What he said to me today and this is key, he said they are not necessarily all the same amount of accuracy. He is overseeing to see which one will be the one that will emerge and tell us within 510 minutes, you are immune. You have it, you dont have it, you are immune. Tucker this could change an awful lot. Dr. Siegel, thank you for that update and im looking forward more. Ring good to see you. Its exciting. Thank you, tucker. Tucker it is. Two weeks ago ari United States senator denied that she did anything wrong by selling t millions in stock before the coronavirus crashed the market. Now we have learned the amount of stocks she sold is far, far greater than initially thought. We will tell you details after the break. First, more images from usually bustling los angeles. I remember setting up shipstation. One or two clicks and everything was up and running. I was printing out labels and saving money. Shipstation saves us so much time. It makes it really easy and seamless. Pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and its ready to go. Our costs for shipping were cut in half. Just like that. Shipstation. The 1 choice of online sellers. Go to shipstation. Com tv and get 2 months free. Actions to help prevent the spread of respiratory diseases. Wash your hands. Avoid close contact with people who are sick. Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. Stay home when you are sick. Cover your cough or sneeze. Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects with household cleaning spray. For more information, visit cdc. Gov covid19. This message brought to you by the National Association of broadcasters and this station. Tucker two weeks ago we had senator Kelly Loeffler of georgia on the show. Senator came on to defend yourself from accusations of dishonesty and insider trading. She had sold more than 3 million worth of stock shortly after receiving private briefings in the congress on coronavirus. She denied doing anything wrong, she said the traits were performed by her Financial Advisors without her previous knowledge. Now new congressional disclosures show that she sold far more stock than we initially knew. Between february 26th and march 11, she and her husband dumped almost 19 million of stock in intercontinental exchange, the company her husband runs. During that same period the couple also sold a Million Dollars worth of shares in other countries, including several retailers. Meanwhile, they bought a lot of dupont, they manufacture antiviral protective gear. So did she know any of this was happening . We dont know the answer to that. We do know that on march 10th after almost all these trades were done, she went on twitter to assure constituents that everything was fine. The good news is the consumer is strong, the economy is strong, jobs are growing. Our president has done a fantastic job making sure that we are in the best position to manage through the situation. Tucker so again, we dont know the truth. But if she knew about these trades and still issue the little psa we showed you, she should leave office. She claims she only learned about the trades after they happen. She denies insider trading, and good. Then she should welcome a federal investigation into all of this. Not the only one who should, because shes not the only lawmaker who cashed out ahead of coronavirus. Richard burr of course is another, still in the senate, still a committee chairman. So is congresswoman cheri bustos, chair of the Democratic Congressional campaign committee. Members of congress were briefed on february 7th, 3 days later she sold off 50 grand in disney stock. Is that a coincidence . We should find out. Thats it for us tonight. Another reminder, if you can be with their loved ones, call them. They will love it and so will you. Have a great night, we will be back tomorrow, sean hannity takes over from new york city where he is standing by. Calm, able, ready, with a full sean i love that you say that now at the end every show. You gave me an extra ten seconds. I want talk across them i have a friend of mine in the hospital right now with this being treated with hydroxychloroquine. His name is big daddy, tucker, say hi to big daddy and tell them we wish them well. Tucker godspeed, big daddy, we are on your side. Thats for real. And is it working . Sean it is. So far. Were going to have a full report on that, big updates on that. Great show as always, thank you for doing that and welcome to hannity. We have major, major new development, good, bad and some really ugly in americas fight against covid19, including some of the most disgraceful behavior i have witnessed. You see the best in people and the worst from the same group of partisan hack democrats and the mob in the media are just awful, new lows for them. We are now in the middle of a national emergency, some are already theyre actually callor