A building makeshift facilities as the Health Care Systems struggle to. India orders the worlds biggest lock down 1300000000 people are told to stay indoors for 3 weeks in an effort to stop the spread of the virus. And the Olympic Games in tokyo have been postponed for a year because of the global spread of the disease. The new york and new york has been a major battlefront in the fight against the corona virus pandemic the largest us city now has more than 25000 confirmed cases and that number is rising rapidly medical facilities meanwhile a struggling to cope and are facing potential shortages of things like beds ventilators and even staff but the u. S. President says he hopes to have the situation under control by Easter Gabriel elizondo ripples out from new york. Sobering news for new yorkers the situation is worse than 1st start with the coronavirus rate of infection doubling every 3 days we were looking at a Freight Train coming across the country were now looking at a bullet tra
Stock, especially with all that we have been seeing with that bad news this morning. Reporter well, thats exactly right. I think marcus thats because the markets was expecting and wall street was expecting this move and washington moved so quickly to fix it. Lets look at that number. The official number is 3, 283,000, the number of people filing for unemployment in the most recent week measured. That makes sense when you think about it. Of course, we expected that number. Look around you. The stores are closed. The restaurants are working at halfstaff. But the stimulus bill can ease that pain. Both sides got what they wanted. Democrats were able to get some supervision over some of the oversight of the money going to corporations. We got money to workers as well. Its going to be the Unemployment Benefits that are written into that bill that got expanded and extended that probably will help your family most. I know a lot of people think of that check and think of that. But i think its t
Our schedules. Were also making sure the companies that are Good Companies stay solvent and have the money necessary to keep functioning. We have a lot of things were working on with Financial Markets and its going to work out fine you have to remember the stock market is much higher. Its taken a big hit its going to all bounce back and its going to bounce back at the right time when will you decide for the American Workers were deciding right now. Were dealing prior to even the stafford act were dealing with the democrats in congress. Well see what can be done i happen to think a payroll tax cut would be a very good idea. Very distributed to really distributes it very evenly among middle class and other workers it would be a great thing. I happen to think it would be a great thing beyond this. Were looking at the payroll tax cut and that wont come immediately because thats a stronger measure but we are looking to do that i think at the right Time Congress will probably go along with i
Fact there has never been a time when humans were not affected during his time as a selfdescribed disease detective he has had his own brushes with viruses and wnfectious disease in contagion in 1995 he worked in zaire for the first a bola after 9 11 he was called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax and in 2003 called to hong kong to help quarantines ours. These are some of the stories he chronicles in the next pandemic as a disease hunter and has been trying to prepare the public for Health Emergencies and he has seen it all. Telling us microbes will always be a problem he also writes that in all all epidemics and pandemics are inevitable in fact most can be mitigated if not prevented. But how do we have enough resources . To help a separate the hype from the facts what poses the greatest risk of what we need to do please join me on a Public Health journey by welcoming doctor kohn to the Carnegie Council this morning. [applause] thank you very much. Good morning everybody.
Being here, and let me thank our very esteemed panel of people who have spent their entire lives fighting for Quality Health care and disease prevention in this country. Let me just very briefly introduce some of our panelists before we begin. Dr. Abdul al sayed is a physician,epidemiologist for the city of detroit. He was formerly a professor at columbia Universitys Department of epidemiology and director of the club University Science program. Dr. Allison gulvaney is director of the yale center for Infectious Disease modeling and analysis and professor of epidemiology. She is the youngest recipient of an endowed chair in the history of yale school of medicine. Dr. Victoria dooley is a Board Certified Family Medicine physician and health care advocate. Has worked very hard to make sure all people in michigan receive health care as a human right. Deborah berger is the National Nurses united president. The Largest Nurses Union in the country, and she is one of the countrys top nursing l