Pacific and mountain, 202 7488001. We have a line for medical professionals, we would love to hear from you. Its 202 7488002. We are also on twitter and facebook. We are taking your text messages. That number is 202 7488003. Tell us your first name and where you are texting from. We begin as we always do with a look at the sobering numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. More than 1. 2 million confirmed cases. The number ofs. Cases are approaching 330,000. 65,000 deaths around the country. Around the world, i should say. The u. S. Is leading the world in cases of coronavirus. That from Johns Hopkins university, which has been keeping track of this since the beginning in january. The president says a lot of death is coming. It will be the toughest week in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and he said this on saturday. He said this as the total number of coronavirus cases rose to over 300,000, with the number of deaths host at the Daily Briefing yesterday, deborah birx, o
Guest my pleasure. Good morning. Host what are the lessons from the 1918 pandemic . Terrible, terrible time, which perhaps there seems to be more overlap now than we could have ever imagined, i think that there are some differences and there are some important similarities as well. I think we should really focus on the differences between whats going on now and 1918. Because 1918 did leave us with several lessons. Perhaps the most important one is understanding what it was that was killing people in 1918. Just to remind everybody, back in 1918, people had not yet discovered viruses. That would happen over the next couple of decades. And so there was this terrible disease that ended up killing between 50 million and 100 Million People worldwide, or 675,000 people in the u. S. , which in todays numbers, would be about three million deaths. And they did not know what it was that was killing them. The word influenza comes from a latin word, meaning influence. People thought that it was the
Story we listen now through world war saying youll be in to go build you know the stage of you but we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and the stories that matter go to 0. I thought. Last time i saw. I was like im. Going through with this to get this information well its just. Awesome. Hello im richard gives birth and youre watching the listening post here are some of the coronavirus stories the media angles will be covering from home this week for some governments the battle against covert 19 is being fought on multiple fronts medical informational and ideological well look at the history of misinformation in the coverage of viral pandemics by taking you back more than a century to the story of the spanish flu plus filmmakers in isolation and animator goes dark. As theyve been isolating their populations to keep the coronavirus contained some powerful governments are simultaneously waging a worldwide war of perceptions laying out how the pandemic happened where the
Today the Circuit Breakers were down 7 . A day where oil had its first decline, down 31 . The treasury went below. 15 a record low which tells you the bond market is terrified its also a day where you probably lost a lot of money its probably what happened to you. Thats because, of course, the dow plummeted 2014 points. Its worst point drop ever. The s p plunged 6. 7. Nasdaq 2. 159 now the dow was at 2. 14. It lost that much. Okay it happened. What the heck got us here . Where do we go next . First todays sellers fear we are going into a coronavirus induced recession and theyre trying to get out of other people who want to sell. Just trying to get aahead of them that may sound fanciful that we had six cases in this country and 22 deaths. In the end, it seems like a super food than the playing. As the president tweeted earlier, 37,000 americans died from the flu last year yet nothing is shut down life and the economy go on, end quote. But the marks were not reassured, not the bond marke
You uphold the universe by the words of your power. Today, walk with our senators as they work. Help them to remember that there is no purity without vigilance, no learning without study, and no mastery without discipline. Give them the wisdom to be willing to pay the price to honor you. Provide them with joy in service and devotion in discipleship. Infuse them with a spirit of power, love, and selfcontrol. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley one minute in morning business. An oped i penned recently mentioned countries that still has laws on the books and it touched the nerve in bangladesh. I certainly didnt mean to imply that it was the worst off