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Coronavirus. Health professionals warn we are days away it hitting the u. S. In a bigger way. Fox newss Mark Meredith with more in washington. Mark, the administration, 15 days to slow the spread. We can get it under control by august earliest of july. The president looking at lock downs potentially for certain hot spot areas . Is that what happened . A lot going on as you mentioned. White house starting with new guidelines helping americans combat the spread of the coronavirus. Guidance comes as President Trump said u. S. May face recession from the outbreak. Latest numbers though. The number of cases coronavirus right now, over 181,000. Number of death worldwide and climbing. Number of cases 4200 that number on the rice. More people get tested. Number of deaths at 72, those are expected to climb. With the numbers on the rise, cdc is rolling out new guidelines for americans to stay safe. My administration is recommending that all americans, including the young and healthy work to enga
Attempting to cross into greece from turkey. In sports fans are banned from bahrains formula one race of the coronavirus and australia successfully defend a womens t 20 world cup crowd against india in front of a packed melbourne cricket ground. So that and italy is imposing tough restrictions on a quarter of its population locking down its 2nd largest city and more than 16000000 people to try and stop the spread of coronavirus its just had its biggest rise in cases since the outbreak began with more than 1200 confirmed on saturday well the lockdown includes the entire region of long body where the italian outbreak began. And where the most deaths have been recorded home to 10000000 people no one will be able to move in or out of the area and that includes the countrys economic capital of milan the lockdown will also impact several other provinces including venice and haiti another 6000000 people over the restrictions is set to remain until early april so as the very latest in padua in
This is just over two hours. This hearing will come to water. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for the efforts as related to the current i guess we have to call it a pandemic at this point in time with conv19, the corona virus. I do think its important we put everything in perspective and i would ask my Committee Members to include my pretend Opening Statement in the record. But we often times. Let me rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. I remember in a crisis we were talking about it spreading and could be a Million People which would have been a huge problem because ebola had a mortality rate of 40 , but in the end because of effective action on the part of the world health organization, the Obama Administration and resources we prevented it from spreading some less than 29,000 contracted it and about 11,000 died. Weve had other outbreaks where we are Getting Better and weve developed some relatively effective
Were trying to do on the overall management. The bottom line here is very simple. The number of coronavirus cases we have coming in to the Health Care System has to match the capacity of the Health Care System. Thats what this whole conversation has been about from day one. They keep talking about the curve, the curve, the curve. What theyre trying to say the curve, the increase in the number of cases has to be reduced to a rate of admission that your hospitals can handle. And right now, we have 53,000 hospital beds, 3,000icu beds. Thats what the entire countrys doing, thats what the federal government is trying to do. What is the particular problem here . That this is a respiratory illness. The people who come in often have an underlying illness, they need an icu bed. The icu bed is the equivalent of a ventilator. Its all about the ventilators, thats why you see so much about how we get additional ventilators. Right now in new york, specifically, the rate of the curve suggests that in