The coronavirus. They say they plan to release enough tests so all 50 states can free at least 2 of their residence. Joining us from amazons home seattle,he mayor of jenny durkin jenny durkan. We doubt that seattle was one of the early epicenters but early moves prevented seeing some of the dismal numbers we have seen elsewhere. Give us a status update in terms of the Testing Capacity. Mayor durkan on the good news front, at the height of the outbreak, we had a transmission rate of about three. We were seeing cases rise really quickly. We were able to do our measures pretty quickly, first by having the Tech Companies telecommute as well as the cities and larger employers. Today, the transmission level is below one, so every person who gets the virus is not even transmitting it to another person. All of the epidemiologists are saying that is where you need to be for a significant period of time. I think probably the worst news is that we are nowhere near the Testing Capacity that we nee
Accompanied by the Vice President of the United States. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you. Today i would like to provide you with an update in our war against the coronavirus. Thanks to our comprehensive strategy and extraordinary devotion to our citizens, we have had such tremendous support all over, we continue to see encouraging signs of progress. Cases in new york area, new orleans, detroit, boston, and houston are declining. Seattle, washington, d. C. , indianapolis, and st. Louis are all stable and declining. All parts of the country are in good shape, in all cases getting better. And we are seeing very little that we are going to look at as a superseding hotspot. Hings are moving along really a horrible situation that we have been confronted with, but they are moving along. As we express our gratitude for these hardfought gains, we continue to mourn with thousands of families across the country whose loved ones have been stolen from us by the invisible enemy. We grieve
Its allies in western media today portraying china as either the victim of disinformation about the wuhan virus or claiming that western nations are using the contagion as distraction from their own policy failures. Even insinuating in one case that the United States is, quote, hiding something. The Trump Administration official telling fox news today they also have reason to believe the chinese have underreported, dramatically underreported the tally of deaths and cases of the virus in their country by a factor of at least 50. Can chinas initial and persistent lies and deception about the dangers of the virus have now caused the infection of 3 Million People worldwide and killed more than 209,000 people. Chinas maligned actions have killed 55,000 americans and infected nearly a million more. Much remains to be discovered, and among those discoveries we await are the dark reasons that motivated the ccp leaders to, first, release the virus and then to carry out can chinas deadly decepti
Its allies in western media today portraying china as either the victim of disinformation about the wuhan virus or claiming that western nations are using the contagion as distraction from their own policy failures. Even insinuating in one case that the United States is, quote, hiding something. The Trump Administration official telling fox news today they also have reason to believe the chinese have underreported, dramatically underreported the tally of deaths and cases of the virus in their country by a factor of at least 50. Can chinas initial and persistent lies and deception about the dangers of the virus have now caused the infection of 3 Million People worldwide and killed more than 209,000 people. Chinas maligned actions have killed 55,000 americans and infected nearly a million more. Much remains to be discovered, and among those discoveries we await are the dark reasons that motivated the ccp leaders to, first, release the virus and then to carry out can chinas deadly decepti
Its allies in western media today portraying china as either the victim of disinformation about the wuhan virus or claiming that western nations are using the contagion as distraction from their own policy failures. Even insinuating in one case that the United States is, quote, hiding something. The Trump Administration official telling fox news today they also have reason to believe the chinese have underreported, dramatically underreported the tally of deaths and cases of the virus in their country by a factor of at least 50. Can chinas initial and persistent lies and deception about the dangers of the virus have now caused the infection of 3 Million People worldwide and killed more than 209,000 people. Chinas maligned actions have killed 55,000 americans and infected nearly a million more. Much remains to be discovered, and among those discoveries we await are the dark reasons that motivated the ccp leaders to, first, release the virus and then to carry out can chinas deadly decepti