Too close to call come in washington and north dakota. We will get response from naomi. Lein and alicia garza then, as the coronavirus pandemic grows, nurses on the frontlines are holding a national day of action to protest lack of basic protections for nurses and their patients. When something doubles every day, gets to very large number very quickly. So if there are 1000 people infected today, in seven or eight weeks, there can be 64,000 people infected in the state o f washington if we dont somehow slow down this epidemic. Amy well speak with the president of National Nurses united jean ross. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has deployed the National Guard to new rochelle, a suburb of new york city, ordering a onemile containment zone around a synagogue whose congregation is at the center of the nations biggest single largest coronavirus outbreak. National guard member
Impact on our economy, the crisis we face from the coronavirus is on a scale of a major war, and we must act accordingly. Nobody knows what the number of fatalities may end up being, or the number of people who may get ill, and we all hope that that number will be as low as possible. But we also have to face the truth, and that is that the number of casualties may actually be even higher than what the armed forces experienced in world war ii. In other words, we have a major, major crisis, and we must act accordingly. Therefore, it is an absolute moral imperative that our response as a government, as a society, as a business community, and as individual citizens meet the enormity of this crisis. As people stay or work from home and are directed to quarantine, it will be easy for us to feel like we are all alone. Im working at home, im not in my office. Or that we must only worry about ourselves and think that everybody else should fend for themselves. But in my view, that would be a tra
Major war, and we must act accordingly. Nobody knows what the number of fatalities may end up being, or the number of people who may get ill, and we all hope that that number will be as low as possible. But we also have to face the truth, and that is that the number of casualties may actually be even higher than what the armed forces experienced in world war ii. In other words, we have a major, major crisis, and we must act accordingly. Therefore, it is an absolute moral imperative that our response as a government, as a society, as a business community, and as individual citizens meet the enormity of this crisis. As people stay or work from home and are directed to quarantine, it will be easy for us to feel like we are all alone. Im working at home, im not in my office. Or that we must only worry about ourselves and think that everybody else should fend for themselves. But in my view, that would be a tragic and dangerous mistake. If there ever was a time in the modern history of our c
After withdrawing from the president ial race. My. The us state of california has declared an emergency to deal with an outbreak of the coronavirus theres been a rise in cases there arms the 1st fatality and elderly man dies after recently returning from a trip or a cruise ship the grand princess is now being docs near a california schools with thousands of people still on board she returns a reports on how authorities in california are trying to determine if other passengers are infected. This cruise ship appears to be a potentially another major vector for the coronavirus to spread this man who was elderly had Underlying Health problems which is what we often see in people who die from the coronavirus but he was all in this ship and he does some bug having already felt symptoms off the coronavirus he went home and finally he called my mom one got help got tested was tested positive but that died at least one other person from that same cruise ship who also disembark is potentially is
Too close to call come in washington and north dakota. We will get response from naomi. Lein and alicia garza then, as the coronavirus pandemic grows, nurses on the frontlines are holding a national day of action to protest lack of basic protections for nurses and their patients. When something doubles every day, gets to very large number very quickly. So if there are 1000 people infected today, in seven or eight weeks, there can be 64,000 people infected in the state off washington if we dont somehow slow down this epidemic. Amy wellll speak with the president of National Nurses united jean ross. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has deployed the National Guard to new rochelle, a suburb of new york city, ordering a onemile containment zone around a synagogue whose congregation is at the center of the nations biggest single largest coronavirus outbreak. National guard memb