To open back up for business, were far from the end of this scourge, and the mid crisis lesson to learn is that our past failures do not need to dictate our future actions. As Global Health official and former head of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim wrote in the new yorker last week, its not too late to go on the offense against the coronavirus. And there are promising signs that our nascent offensive efforts are working but will only succeed if were guided by one thing, and that one thing is data. There is no other way to defeat coronavirus. All of our decisions must be based on the evidence available to us, not on the basis of political advantage nor on the basis of misdirected protests. We can only succeed if we follow the science, and that much is going to be our focus in the hour ahead. Tonight in a week with so many medical and science headlines to keep track of, i am once again grateful to be joined by dr. Zeke emanuel for the hour. Dr. Emanuel is an nbc news and msnbc senior medica
Good to see you. Well see you again on monday. How many people are sick with the coronavirus in the United States and when did they get sick . Answering these questions are crucial but they have never been answered well and it seems that federal government dramatically misunderstood what was happening in america as the coronavirus outbreak began. On the last day of february, the cdc reported that 15 americans had tested positive for covid19. Today the reported number is more than a million and at least some of the death and economic damage could have been avoided if we started testing earlier. As more states prepare to open back up for business, were far from the end of this scourge, and the mid crisis lesson to learn our past failures do not need to dictate our future actions. Wrote in the new yorker as former head of the world bank wrote in the new yorker next week, its not too late to go on the offense against the coronavirus and there are promising signs that our offense efforts ar
The federal judge rules new york citys stopandfrisk policy is unconstitutional. That judge orders an overhaul. The city is fighting back. Whats next . I want you to have this. This is really a gift from my brother so i want you to have this and use it how you want. And the brothers last wish. The man traveling coast to coast giving away hundreds of dollars tloo unsuspecting folks. Its todays big idea. Well get to all those stories in just a moment, but we start on the saturday afternoon in egypt. One of the few countries in the middle east dubbed americas friend for decades now stands on the brink of a civil war. Its relationship with the United States is in question. Its chances for peace are grim. After 72 hours of violence and bloodshed in egypt we are keeping a live eye on a mosque. A mosque in cairo where supporters of the ousted Muslim Brotherhood have been holed up. The Egyptian Military is using bullets and tear gas to pry them out and that scene follows one of the bloodiest in
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