Outbreaks. This is indeed the great danger and its also the key question even if strict social distancing helps us to flatten the epidemiological curve by by suppressing the numbers of new infections wont the number of people getting it just skyrocket again once we and those measures are we just kicking the can down the road a lot of eyes are turning to china now as it cautiously begins to lift some of the direct hooting restrictions that have been in place there for the last couple of months everyone is sort of waiting with bated breath to see whether the number of new cases there begins to rise again but there are an awful lot of experts now saying that until we come up with an effective vaccine the new coronavirus is here to stay at least in the near future to keep it from overwhelming Health Systems well all have to get used to social distancing as the new norm along with the isolation that that brings. Now there is being stuck at home but arguably there are tougher places to be al
Information on the clone of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. Science. Quarantine isolation and distancing human beings are social creatures making life in the time of the pandemic a challenging and lonely its just not how were built but we are in it together and among us are people who learned to live in isolation long before the corona Virus Outbreak how did they prepare and what can we learn from the. High. And in todays covert 1000 special well be talking about how to get through collective isolation and weve got some professional insights from some who know what its like to be far away from everyone and everything but 1st to someone else and isolation at home our science correspondent Derrick Williams weve been receiving all your questions for him around coded 1000 all beat today weve picked the one weve all been asking ourselves have a listen. Can life continue normally of
They fly back to the u. S. , theyll be quarantined for two weeks. Its a dramatic situation unfolding as we speak. Were live in japan and on the scene. Later, a sunday sitdown with the always funny john mul achaney, how he knew at a very young age that show business is exactly what he wanted to do with his life. I say around age 4 i knew i wanted to be a nightclub entertainer. By 5, yeah, why would you not at age 4 . Because i wanted to be like Ricky Ricardo, he and i love lucy had gone off the air a solid 30 years before i was born. A sunday sitdown with john mulaney. Harry smith goes for a ride of his life in fords brandnew mustang. In our sunday closer, my conversation with the cartoonist who is making her mark on the inside of the pages of the new yorker and why her illustrations also making history. Plus another life well lived later in the show. Lets begin this morning with that breaking news. The americans stuck aboard that cruise ship in japan filled with coronavirus victims bei
Im michael okwu thanks so much for joining me a laundry list of conflicts and uncertainty over the west role in the world are dominating the Munich Security Conference some 3 dozen heads of state along with top ministers and Security Experts have gathered in southern germany the west dwindling influence on Global Security has even spawned a new term west listening. The whos who of international politics. With plenty to discuss. The german president frank steinmeyer spent much of his keynote speech deploring the decline of internationalism and of european unity he had harsh words for russia china and the us. And the been that our closest ally the United States of america under the Current Administration rejects the idea of an international community. Great again great again if necessary also at the expense of maybe. Fittingly enough it was a former u. S. Secretary of state from another era john kerry who made a plea for reviving International Cooperation snow country can solve the probl
Airport has been given tokens to the airport so they can ride back to the city. We have Team Coverage today. We begin with abc7 News Reporter amy holly field. Reporter security guards shot this video when they noticed a sudden uptick of hopeless people. They found sam transbuses at the end of the line, emptying the bus and watched as a half dozen Homeless People spilled out on to the streets. It originates on the peninsula. Phil broke the story in the chronicle. He said it was a surprise to see the video. When you see the video, it is a shock. You realize, there is no place for these people to go. Tey just melt into the night. We saw it happen around 5 00 this morning at the stop right next to the embarcadero center. The bus was at the end of the line. The people who got off the bus looked like they had nowhere to go. I didnt realize it was happening. Clearly not a great thing. Its horrible that theyre homeless. There should be a solution. To bus them in from somewhere else, thats pret