Pandemic. But lets be clear, it is a pandemic, and i labeled it so a week ago. I dont know what the World Health Organization is waiting on, and i really dont care. Were americans, and that means were not a nation of buttercups and daffodils who need to have every official word on the coronavirus pandemic sugarcoated and sweetened for public consumption. Were americans. We and every generation before us has faced threats and challenges without flinching. We will do so as well. Today there was, i believe, a new, different and stronger tone emanating from washington as the president himself met with the heads of pharmaceutical companies and challenged them to begin rapidly preparing the manufacturing of needed drugs and pharmaceutical up ingredients necessary ingredients necessary to deal with this Public Health emergency, and the stock markets roared their approval. After last weeks performance, the worst since the 2008 recession, the Dow Jones Industrials today soared almost 1300 point
Pandemic. But lets be clear, it is a pandemic, and i labeled it so a week ago. I dont know what the World Health Organization is waiting on, and i really dont care. Were americans, and that means were not a nation of buttercups and daffodils who need to have every official word on the coronavirus pandemic sugarcoated and sweetened for public consumption. Were americans. We and every generation before us has faced threats and challenges without flinching. We will do so as well. Today there was, i believe, a new, different and stronger tone emanating from washington as the president himself met with the heads of pharmaceutical companies and challenged them to begin rapidly preparing the manufacturing of needed drugs and pharmaceutical up ingredients necessary ingredients necessary to deal with this Public Health emergency, and the stock markets roared their approval. After last weeks performance, the worst since the 2008 recession, the Dow Jones Industrials today soared almost 1300 point
Pandemic. But lets be clear, it is a pandemic, and i labeled it so a week ago. I dont know what the World Health Organization is waiting on, and i really dont care. Were americans, and that means were not a nation of buttercups and daffodils who need to have every official word on the coronavirus pandemic sugarcoated and sweetened for public consumption. Were americans. We and every generation before us has faced threats and challenges without flinching. We will do so as well. Today there was, i believe, a new, different and stronger tone emanating from washington as the president himself met with the heads of pharmaceutical companies and challenged them to begin rapidly preparing the manufacturing of needed drugs and pharmaceutical up ingredients necessary ingredients necessary to deal with this Public Health emergency, and the stock markets roared their approval. After last weeks performance, the worst since the 2008 recession, the Dow Jones Industrials today soared almost 1300 point
County, about 80 miles east of nashville. Take a look at the images were showing you here. 45 buildings damaged or collapsed and, again, as we see with some of the worst tornadoes, you dont know where one building begins and another one ends. This is the nashville area alone. Were standing by, and when that begins we will bring it to you, were going to bring you the updates as you can be sure more updates are coming in. Cnn correspondent amara walker is on the ground. What is the latest . Reporter i do want to update you on two of those deaths. Metro Nashville Police tweeted that two people who were killed an adult female and adult male were killed when they were hit by debris here in nashville. Im going to tell you, being here all morning, talking to the people, theyre telling me theyre utterly devastated. Those are the words that one woman used when she told me about her experience and also seeing the damage here in five points, which is like the social hub of east nashville. Look at
For all the doubt, we do know something, and it is amazing. Even illness becomes wellness. That saying was from malcolm x. We must be together as ever as one. Lets get at it. All right. Our nations top Infectious Disease expert just said today there is a drug that may be able to block this virus. If you look at the time to recovery being shorter in the remdesivir arm, it was 11 days compared to 15 days. Thats a p value, for the scientists who are listening, of 0. 001. So thats something that, although a 31 improvement, doesnt seem like a knockout 100 . It is a very important proof of concept, because what it has proven is that a drug can block this virus. Okay. Lets all say the name of the drug together. Ready . Remdesivir. The drug is called remdesivir. Youre going to hear it a lot. Its not easy to say. But now you know. The fda has reportedly fast tracked it. Thats whats happening right now, for emergency use. That was dr. Fauci, obviously, talking about the drug. He says the data sh