If you are a medical professional, we hope to hear from you. Good monday evening. The doctor will be joining us. He will be going to a different location in washington dc for the interview. We want to begin as we always do with numbers, courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Confirmed118,000 deaths. Of coronavirus. The death toll surpassing 23,000. From the university of alabama, the school of medicine. Therote a piece for washington post. This is the headline. He wrote the following, despite all of my knowledge of Infectious Diseases and how this virus was addicted to behave, i was not prepared for the toll it takes. It is less about how i felt moment to moment but rather the fear of the unknown. Ofas plagued by my knowledge what was happening biologically. I knew that my symptoms were this will not be the last time a virus skips from animal to human. It should be the last time we are so unprepared. The experience has been a humbling lesson. We can modify and lessen the symptoms, but h
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Responsee coronavirus and we take your calls or you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal can join us on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is monday, march 9, 2020. There are more than 500 confirmed coronavirus cases in the u. S. , and those numbers expected to go up this week. As federal, state, and local governments step up their response to the outbreak, we are spending the first part of the washington journal today asking how the coronavirus has impacted your community . If you live in eastern or central time zones, the number 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001 is the number. You can send us a text. That number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Catch up with us on twitter, facebook. Good morning to you. You can start calling in now. We want to take you first to the covid19 dashboard being maintained by the Johns Hopkins university.