Over the past 38 years at the nadh, i have had the enormous privilege of serving under and advising seven president of the United States beginning with president Ronald Reagan on Infectious Diseases and threats including hivaids, west nile virus, the anthrax attacks, endemic influenza, ebola and zika among others and course, most recently, the covid19 pandemic. I am particularly proud to have served to president joe biden. While i am moving on from my current position, i am not retiring. After more than 50 years of Government Service, i plan to pursue the next phase of my career while i still have so much energy and passion for my field. That is a statement yesterday from dr. Fauci. We want to ask your thoughts on the Doctors Service to the country over the course of 50 years. 202 7488001 for republicans. Democrats 202 7488000. And independents 202 7488002. On msnbc last night, dr. Fauci participated in an interview and talked about the lessons he learned while dealing with covid. [vid
Risk of kicking off a constitutional crisis. If he ordered me to reopen in a way that would endanger the Public Health of the people of my state, i wouldnt do it. Reporter new yorks governor insists that he, not king trump hits words will decide when and how the state reopens for business. This morning the president tweeted cuomo has been calling daily, even hourly, begging for everything. Now he seems to want independence . That wont happen. The president is clearly spoiling for a fight on this issue. If he wants a fight, hes not going to get it from me. Period. Reporter northeast governors in the group now coordinating their economic comeback are preaching caution. Were just getting started. I dont feel comfortableal all. Weve ramped up our testing, but on may 20th well make a decision on how to and when to start i think it will take at least another month of being care of. Reporter reopening is key for families like the wards from kansas. Their restaurant still closed. Were jobless,
In a significant war with an enemy. If this was a traditional war where there were soldiers outside of our doors in the streets and people would be risking their lives to be outside of their homes, no one would think about the need to go to work. No one would think about getting their dog groomed. The death toll in illinois cook county is among the top five in the nation with more than 1,900 lives lost. The city of chicago reached what the mayor called the sad milestone of 1,000 coronavirus deaths on most. An er doctor is joining us. Thanks for joining us. Listening there, the state Health Official essentially saying this is a war and people need to rethink their personal privileges, if you will, whether its getting your dog groomed or going out to a nail salon. Is that message sinking in, or are you seeing in your daily work that as people keep hearing more and more about reopening, is the psychology changing . Are people taking more risks . I think it seems, you know, there are certa
Two years people arent going to accept it and they shouldnt accept it. Martha this comes amidst rising and conflicting models of what we can expect this month. We are going to set the record straight with dr. Christopher murray, hes the head of the most relied upon model. Before we go there, lets take a quick look at how the lockdown morphed over time. From a protect our Hospital Capacity initiative into something else. Everybody in america does what we ask for over the next 15 days, we will see a dramatic difference and we wont have to worry about the ventilators and we wont have to worry about the icu beds, because we wont have our elderly and people at this rate of having been hospitalized. Martha we heard the same message at the epicenter in new york. The spike is where you would overwhelm the hospital system, trying to get down that rate of increase so you can actually handle it in the hospital system. Thats where they talk about flattening the curve. Martha 15 days became 30 days
I dont get those phone calls, i get more phone calls directing saying what theyre going to do. Thats been concerning to me. They are few and far between because right now we are in the middle of a crisis and if you look at this campus here, if you go two blocks away. [inaudible] the only place that is not working right now is the house inside the capital. Is the reason less to do with the virus, if there meeting in the senate and more to do with the power play come this way nancy pelosi can actually write the bills in her office, no committee input, no input except from her lieutenants and then invite the members back for the sole purpose of ramming through her legislation . Is about really whats going on. You are 100 correct. This isnt about reopening a campus. This is about restoring the voice of america during this critical time so if we are not meeting we dont have input. You dont have the americans voice coming through. So empowering the speaker even greater so she can write one o