A slogan that one of the problems of course. Counting the cost on aljazeera. Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question is the coronavirus morphing from a Public Health epidemic into a full blown social and financial pandemic lets get to the bottom line. Around the world factories have gone off line schools have been suspended and entire cities have been locked down in italy the entire country is now under quarantine and in america critics of President Donald Trump say his administration has been slow to deal with the outbreak and focused on dealing with a Health Crisis as a Public Relations battle more recently however and with 700 cases of Coronavirus Infection in the u. S. The administration has shifted to high gear in fact in the past few days the government set aside more than 8000000000. 00 in emergency funding and started to talk about an economic stimulus package so where is the fear of the unknown taking us now fortunately we have people around the country who have the answers
What isolation looks like. Its monday, march 16th, 2020. Well have the latest updates on the coronavirus right after todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Its bound to get worse. It will get worse. It will get much worse before it gets better. The coronavirus outbreak consumes america. How much worse . What are the numbers . Its really going to depend on the effectiveness of our response. Shoppers have been going to the stores all weekend. Emptying out shelves, preparing for that big unknown. Buy more than they buy at christmas. Relax. Were doing great. It all will pass. Former Vice President joe biden and senator Bernie Sanders facing off one on one for the first time. Not surprisingly, the nights hot topic involved the coronavirus. This is bigger than any individual. This is bigger than yourself. This is about america. This is about the world. The canadian boy is going viral after a funny interview. The kid was looking forward to his Family Vacation at disneyland but the park
We lost thousands of people worldwide. The United States the numbers continueun to increase as we continue to increase number of people that we can actually test. Fortunately, the vast majority of the people will get this virus have little to no symptoms. Its a cold, a mild flu to them. But for a gullible population, our elderly population, those with heart issues, lung issues, smokers, diabetics, this can be a very, very serious thing. The challenge that we face in our health care is that for every person that walks in to get tested, they are facetoface with ones of her healthcare workers especially in rural areas ofy our state that may be the only healthcare professional for that entire county. And if the person who has not been vaccinated as well because there is no vaccine yet, if that person is not able to serve the rest of the population, and bad Health Situation becomes even worse because of diminishing care. We as americans have taken the seriously, as we should. We are paying
Thousands were affected. Now almost every country in the world has infections. We have hundreds of thousands of people that have had contact with this virus and we have lost thousands of people worldwide. The United States, numbers continue to increase we are increasing the number of people we can test. Fortunately the vast Authority People who get this virus have little to no symptoms, cold, mouth, flew to them. Were vulnerable or elderly population, there are heart issues and lung issues, smokers, diabetics, it can be a serious thing. The challenge we face in our healthcare is for every person that walks into get tested, they are facetoface with one of our healthcare workers especially in rural areas of our state, that may be the only healthcare professional for the entire county. If that person who has not been vaccinated as well because there is no vaccine yet, if that person is not able to serve the rest of the population, bad Health Situation becomes even worse because of diminis
Talk about an economic stimulus package so where is the fear of the unknown taking us now fortunately we have people around the country who have the answers with me here in washington d. C. Are dr ali khan a former u. S. Assistant Surgeon General who led the centers for Disease Control office of Public Health preparedness and response claudius saw many economists with the Washington Center for equitable growth who has worked at the Federal Reserve board and also the u. S. President s council of economic advisors and in boston we have john gruber an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of technology and a former president of the American Society of Health Economists and in denver we have a very full boat today Kathleen Tierney a professor of sociology at the university of colorado and author of a must read book disasters a sociological approach its so good to have you all with us dr come in we start with you for a minute can you give us a quick snapshot of what the benchmarks on thi