More new cases outside of ina where it originated then inside the country. On wednesday trump held a news conference. He appointed Vice President en mikece to direct efforts to contain the spread and downplayed the risk to americans. San francisco is on high alert. There are new cases in the city. The mayor called a state of emergencto mobilize resources there apto be a utbaraks. Second person in the United States who contracted the virus through unknown origins. Th are from the bay area. Joining me, doctor charles chu. And Infectious Disease expert. Thank yofor ing with us. There is fear in the community. How much concern should people have. What lev is appropriate. We ould be worried. We should be concerned. We are seeing cases of the virus circulating in the community. Cases of infection where we dont know where came from. We dont know how this one individual became infected. We also did not know how the second case in Santa Clara County became infected as well. We should be wary. A
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Can help you make the most of today. Mutual of america financial group, Retirement Services and investments. Additional suppo been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the american people. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewersike you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york,re hariivasan. Sreenivasan good eveni j and thanks fning us. The new coronavirus has now spread to 107 countries and there are close to 108,000 cases worldwide according to the johns hoins university coronavir resource center. Italy is one of the hotspots, where more than 360 people have died frothe virus, and the government issued a quarantine, restricting trel for more than 16 Million People in the northern part of the country. It affects cities like milan, venice and more than a dozen provinces until april 3. In the u. S. , the grand princess cruise ship is etoected to dock rrow at the port of oakland. 21 people ha
To Novel Coronavirus cases in San Francisco. Also an elderly resident in plaster county died from the virus, the first such death in the state. The man who died had returned from a crewto mexico when he started experiencing symptoms. There are now at least 60 confirmed cases of coronavirus d california, second ly to washington state. Where at least 14 people have died. Joining me now is kqed science reporter leslie mcclurg. Thank you for being with me today. Lets this crew ship, the o man ed had just been on a crews that went to mexico came back, disembarked of the passenedrs and then piup another 2500 passengers went on to hawaii. And on the way enback, pars started complaining of flulike symptoms, things that seem similar to covid19. So the ship is now offshore, and people arbeing tested board. Tell me about the testing, and also about the risk to those who were not showing symptoms. Sloter jumpers came in yesterday and he Public Officials lower off a helicopter and went on a ship, a
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