C. D. C. Also calculates that on the low end 2400000. 00 people in the u. S. Could require hospitalization and on the high end that would be 21000000. 00 people thats super traveling because the c. D. C. Also says that the u. S. Only has about 925000 hospital beds fewer than a 10th of that amount for the critically ill look thats a lot of math. Our Health Care System clearly is not going to be able to handle cases in these numbers even on those more optimistic projections. No absolutely not. And you know i dont know if im saying something scandalous here but this has to do with the underlying system it has to do with how capitalism works it is a short term profit system especially in a country where we have made a profit based Health Care System so that we are not prepped for this but were also generally speaking the. Corporations that make so much money off our health care are not thinking a year down the road theyre not thinking how to get us back to health and happiness 5 years from
Welcome. Im Morgan Brennan on cnbc and st. Patricks day. Breaking news. That is wall street. Stock futures surging. Well off their highs hitting limit up levels overnight as President Trump said in a tweet last night, quote, the United States will be power fully supporting those Industries Like airlines and others particularly affected by the chinese virus. We will be stronger than ever before limit up means we turn attention to the etfs that are tracking to get a better sense of where they are opening this morning the die, the dow etf is up 2 . Off the gains we saw earlier the s p 500 etf, the spider, is up about 2 . The qqq trust is up about 3. 3 coming off that worse day for both the dow and the s p since 1987 and the nasdaq and the russell 2000, worst daily drop ever breaking overnight, the eight largest u. S. Banks announced they will be jointly taking funds from the Federal Reserve all of this after all the major average posted the worst day since black monday drop of 1987. The d
Homes and businesses after weeks of turmoil in delhi. And wiping out rebels in d. R. Congo weve an exclusive look inside a special 4 month long operation. Welcome to the Program Turkey says its attacking all known targets of the Syrian Regime following a dramatic escalation in fighting an adlib province at least 33 turkish troops have been killed in an airstrike attributed to the Syrian Government the u. N. Secretary general has expressed grave concern while nato chief u. N. Stoltenberg has condemned the indiscriminate as strikes by syria and russia the u. S. State Department Says it stands by turkey under subpoena reports. As syrian and Russian Forces attempted to retake land loss to rebels on thursday Turkish Forces supporting the rebels came under fire their Bloodiest Day in the conflict so far. Dozens of turkish soldiers killed or injured in its live in an airstrike attributed to the Syrian Regime. Helicopters and ambulances were seen streaming across the border earlier in the day
Make his presence felt in the souths first battleground. Winters chill. The eastern half of the country waking up to bitter cold temperatures and high winds this morning. Blizzard warnings in parts of the northeast. Als weekend forecast just ahead. Those stories, plus water everywhere. A massive water main break in texas floods homes and roads and leads to dramatic rescues. Houston, we have a problem. Astros players being hit by pitches, booed and mocked by fans at spring training in the wake of the cheating scandal. And todays getaway. Lets get this Party Started. Weve taken the entire show on a winter vacation for one wild ride. Today, friday, february 28th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from universal Orlando Resort in florida. Hi, everybody. Good morning. Welcome to today. Its good to have you with us. A special friday morning. Were here in orlando, florida. Beautiful, blue sky above us. We happen to be n
Disease yet when people are hundreds of passengers continue most contagious. Do we have any sense though to disembark from the grand at this point about how much princess cruise ship. More contagious the coronavirus is compared with other viruses, all are headed to quarantine but not all will be tested for lets say the seasonal flu . The coronavirus. Some will just be monitored. So it seems to be a little bit more transmissible than the seasonal flu. A little bit more contagious, but its unclear. To keep in mind the big difference between it and the reporter a lot more people today got to make their final seasonal flu is that for the journey to their final quarantine of two weeks. Coronavirus, everybody is and then they can finally call susceptible. Its like you have its like their home home. A forest fire. And for a disease, the fuel, every day the passenger population of the grand princess dwindles as more what would be the dry turned for the fire, is the people who people leave the