Legislators from both the u. S. And canada, discussed the challenges they are facing. Cement was caused by George Washington University Institute for data democracy and politics. Welcome to our continuing conversation about the social media platforms in response to this information campaigns around covid19 pandemic. Very serious situation. Obviously where it lives are literally in the balance. On director of the George Washington University School of many of the public affairs. Affiliated with the institute of data democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on disinformation. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panelists and guests. And if you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a. And make sure that is addressed to everybody so that we can all see it and i will try to incorporatee at least some of those questions to our panel in a bit. So
So 5000000 people in the city of melbourne again back into lockdown after a spike in cave in 1000 infections the government has admitted its lost control of spreading infections and drastic action was needed to hold the spiralling situation for wednesday residents can only leave their homes for essential purposes for 6 weeks pretoria state border with neighboring New South Wales is also closing. It is simply impossible with keiser right at this level to have enough context rising stars to have enough physical resources no matter where they come from no matter what uniform my way in order to continue to suppress and can time this virus without taking significant steps if we were to file to take those steps then we wont be a couple of 100 cases paradise it will be many more than that and it will quickly spiral well and truly out of control when i was there is no clear gauge says the state of victoria wasnt expected to coronavirus resurgence like this this really isnt the outcome the gove
Are now keeping an eye on a swine flu like virus and one that has the potential to create that i can damage and a whole 20 universities paid more than 1000000. 00 in ransom after Cyber Attacks these types of intrusions are up as much as 400 percent according to a new report showed today so lets go and divergent. Global efforts continue in the race for a covert 19 vaccine or even a treatment that could help probable pull the pandemic will british regulators approve a global trial to restart testing drug sykora quinn and chloroquine to see if they can prevent infection with copd 19 well the food and Drug Administration revoked emergency use for the drug after a trial showed they did not benefit us treatments but this cop called trial its. When to look to see if the drug can be used as a potential preventative medicine meanwhile on tuesday the European Unions 27 members announced a ban on travelers from the United States citing concerns over the recent coronavirus spikes across the countr
Global efforts continue in the race for a covert 19 vaccine or even a treatment that could help probable pull the pandemic will british regulators approve a global trial to restart testing drug sykora quinn and chloroquine to see if they can prevent infection with cobra 19 well the food and Drug Administration revoked emergency use for the drug after a trial showed they did not benefit as treatments but this cop called trial its going to look to see if the drug can be used as a potential preventative medicine meanwhile on tuesday the european writing concerns over the recent krone virus bikes across the country will russia and brazil are also barred the list of countries deemed safe include australia canada japan new zealand and south korea will the u. S. Still leads with the highest number of kate. Says more than 2600000. 00 americans have been infected with the virus leading to more than 125000 deaths and the country that accounts for only 4 percent of the worlds population is also a
Or delayed their plan phase reopening. In texas reversing that saying it must force bars to close today and only remain open for takeout and delivery, that saying that restaurants with indoor capacity right now, lets cut it down from 75 they have been getting used to but the last couple of weeks to 50 and anything to do with rafting and tubing, that stops immediately. So those actions, reversing earlier actions, the first time we have seen it got the markets attention and the fear that other states that have seen a similar uptick in cases with the real test availability and we might do the same. We have gotten hints out of florida that maybe that could be the off thing but that is way too soon to tell. Again, the drill on wall street, you sell first and begin to ask questions and get clarification later. We are also waiting to hear from the president s Coronavirus Task force, we have not seen them in a public setting like this in almost two months, theyre gonna be speaking again were t