Director, kari watkins, discusses the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. Its sunday, april the 19th. Ahead, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has surpassed 700,000 in the u. S. And the death toll in our country, nearly 39,000. A number of states are beginning to bend the curve, leading to a new debate on how quickly can or should reopen. That is the starting point on this sunday morning. Join in on the conversation. If you live in the eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000. Ut west, 202 7488001 is your state ready to lift restrictions . Tell us where you live and what you think. You can always send us a text , onage, 202 7488003 twitter, or on facebook. Look at the numbers around the world, courtesy of Johns Hopkins university with total confirmed cases at 2. 3 million and deaths around the world in excess of countries. Ths in 185 yet today at the white house and the Daily Briefing the president at this about sta
Notice about returning to capitol hill if legislation concerning the coronavirus was to be considered. Watch live coverage of the house on cspan. See the senate on cspan two. He is the author of the book the next pandemic. Departmentean of the and a professor at nebraska medical center. Thank you for being with us. Newst to begin with some from the washington post. Contamination at the cdc lab delays the testing rollout. Here are some of the details. Host that was also handling synthetic coronavirus materials. The scientists also said that the proximity deviated from accepted procedures and jeopardized for the virus. Cdc officials took more than a month to remove the unnecessary steps from the kids. Kits. I want you to unpack what that means in terms of testing and some of the Lessons Learned from these missteps. Guest thank you. Cdc is the premier Public Health agency in the world. Actually, many countries have renamed their Public Health agencies cdc, including in china , were cdc do
Here are some of the details. There is a lot there. Can you unpack what that all means in terms of testing and the Lessons Learned from these missteps. Guest thank you very much. Premier Health Agency in the world. Any countries have renamed their Public Health agencies cdc, itluding in china where doesnt mean ending. This is highly uncharacteristic of the agency. It does appear that something ,appened with the testing kits 47 days after this was announced by china, thats how long it took until we had testing in the United States. What we probably should have had was widescale testing starting almost immediately. I would say that the fact that we didnt have widescale commercial testing very quickly at the end of january like some countries like south korea has defined this outbreak for us at this point. It continues to define this outbreak. Testing is going to be necessary as we think about reopening america again. Do isre thing we need to decrease transmission. The first thing we need
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