That school about the research and what this means. The author of spillover, animal infections and the next human pandemic, he will be joining us from montana. 202 the area code and washington, dc. For the eastern time zone. 2027488001 for the pacific and Mountain Time zones. 2027488001 if you are 2027488002 if you are a medical expert. The very latest from Johns Hopkins university and the numbers on this pandemic. Around the world 3. 1 million cases and the death toll exceeding 214,000. Joining us from birmingham, alabama is dr. Michael saag. He is the director for the Infectious Disease division at the university of alabama Birmingham School of medicine. Thank you for being with us. Dr. Saag thank you for having me. Host the timing of this conversation, the breakthrough by the fda, this new drug used for emergency purposes. Your school and institution, part of the research. How significant is this . Dr. Saag this is an important breakthrough because it has proof of concept in inhibit
And for those in the mountain and pacific time zone. We also want to hear from medical professionals. We come to you from my home to your home. We begin as we always do with the very latest from john hopkins university, and the number on this pandemic. Around the world, 3. 1 million cases. And the death toll now exceeding 214,000. Joining us from birmingham, alabama is dr. Michael sack, the director of Infectious Disease division at Birmingham School of medicine. Its also a professor. Thank you for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. Mike and the timing of this conversation, new drug use for emergency purposes, part of the research. Just how significant is this . Guest this is a very important breakthrough, mostly because it has proof of concept in inhibiting the virus directly, which translates into clinical benefit. Havent seen anything like that before, so its a definite step in the right direction. Mike weve been hearing the term this is done at lightning speed. Just a qu
All for taking time. Lets go through where we are today. On this beautiful day. Lets start with the good news. We deserve some good news, lord knows. Change in total number of hospitalizations is down again. This is the number we have been watching, because the fear for us was always overwhelming the hospital system. Added capacity, we have moved equipment around. The fear was always overwhelming the raw capacity of the hospital system. The number of beds. The number of additional net beds was always important to track. That is what we see here. The net down 53, which is the lowest number since we started doing these charts. That is a good number. Three day average, it is a little more accurate than the youtoday is also down as see. 18,000ospitalizations, 18,700. He see the 18, 18, 18. That socalled flattening of the curve. The apex is not just an apex, it is a plateau. That is what the experts were talking about, that it might have been a straight up, then wrap it down, or might be up
You can also send us a text this morning, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from, and otherwise catch up with us on social media. That is facebook. Com cspan and cspanwj. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling in now if you are an essential worker in this country. As you are calling in, we show you this map from abc news of the 46 states and washington, d. C. That have enacted policies to close nonessential businesses in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. The exact number of essential by. Oyees, hard to come there is an estimate from the Brookings Institution that relied on department of Homeland Security designations of essential. Atut 7 million employees Grocery Stores, pharmacies, and bigbox stores. When it comes to the state of california, the Public Policy institute of california estimates that in a typical year, roughly one third to one half of californias labor force is employed in essential operations. The standard
Washingtons effort to address job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic. Is next. N journal one month ago today, President Trump declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic. With wyoming over the weekend, all 50 states have been declared Disaster Response areas. Good morning, its monday, april 13, 2020. This first hour we will ask about your thoughts on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic so far and how your state governor is handling the crisis. We will look at joe bidens just published plan to reopen america. Heres how to be a part of the discussion this morning. In the eastern and central time zones, but linus 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific, that line is 202 7488001. We welcome medical professionals, to hear from you. That live is 202 7488002 that line is. Is 202 7488002 you can text us at 202 7488003. We have facebook posts ready, we will show you those. As we begin the program yesterday, the New York Times had published a lengthy story on the lead up