We have made tremendous progress. There is still a long way to go. When we started out, we saw cases doubling every two or three days. We are now in a cycle where they are doubling every 12 days. We have toet to a place where we see a decline in cases, a decline in hospitalizations and occupied by icu bed covid positive or people under investigation for having covid. We are making progress because people are staying home. Tight sure that we hold is critically important for us to continue to get to a place where we can even start to have a public conversation about what coming out of these restricted measures may look like. You have been very critical of governor desantis. Saying god help us as he plans to reopen parts of florida. What is your concern . My concern ist the issue that i articulated. The only locality the only way to make progress is to have very high restrictions. It is those congregate settings, apart, a nursing home, a jail, other places that is a breeding ground for th
If you live in the eastern half of the country, those at west, this is your number. Yourt west, this is number. If you are a chicago resident, this is your number. ,e will begin how we always do with the numbers courtesy of john hopkins university. Now 2. 4 million cases around the world in 185 countries. The total deaths, one of six 1000 69,000. Joining us from her office in chicago is the mayor, Lori Lightfoot. Thank you for being with here with us here on cspan. My pleasure. I want to begin with some concerns expressed by deborah birx on the White House Coronavirus task force. We have made tremendous progress. There is still a long way to go. When we started out, we saw cases doubling every two or three days. We are now in a cycle where they are doubling every 12 days. We have to get to a place where we see a decline in cases, a decline in hospitalizations and occupied by icu bed covid positive or people under investigation for having covid. We are making progress because people are
Morgan good evening. Im Demarco Morgan with a western edition of the broadcast. An 18yearold man was arrested today in connection with the terror bombing of a london subway train. The suspect was taken into custody about 70 miles southeast of london near the port of dover. The friday morning attack injured nearly 30 people and isis has claimed responsibility. Charlie dagata is in london. Reporter heavily Armed Security personnel swept into sunburyonthames, zeroing in on a home in connection with the subway bombing, a property registered to foster parents who had been honored for their work with children. Masked Police Ordered hundreds of residents to evacuate for their own safety. You can just see someones eyes, and theyve got a gun sort of pointed down like that, and i can see the gun, his eyes, black i just thought oh, my god. What the hell is going on . Reporter the raid came just hours after the arrest of the teenager who investigators believe planted the bomb on the subway train f
American media and the welltuned brain, which is the book that dr. Peter whybrow will be talking about this evening. Welcome, dr. Whybrow. Thank you so much for coming to speak with us this evening. This is a real treat for so many of us. We even have people here from oxford, from france, and we are just delighted to welcome you this evening. Joining dr. Whybrow in discussion will be another preeminent scientist from the institute, dr. Andrew loopter who is a professor of psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and the director of the Neuromodulation Center at the Semel Institute. Hes also our faculty adviser. So we would like to thank dr. Luketer also for being here this evening and for sharing his knowledge and expertise with us. A few housekeeping items. After the presentation we will have a discussion. You will receive if you would like to ask a question, please pick up an index card that will be passed around by some of our board members, write your question on the index card, and s
Weve done a fantastic job. The only thing we havent done well is to get good press. Weve done a fantastic job, but it hasnt been appreciated. Even the closing down of the borders, which had never been done, and not only did we close them, we closed them early, the press doesnt like writing about it. So weve done a poor job on press relationships, and i guess i dont know who to blame for that. Maybe i can blame ourselves for that. I will blame ourselves. But weve done a great job. Weve done a poor job in terms of press relationship, but let me have somebody answer your question. So, i tried to cover this in the answer when i talked about quality of kits. And our quality analysis runs through the fda. So all of these platforms, we have asked people to submit. And weve asked states to quality control. So, i mean, anybody could submit their test to us. We dont buy tests that havent been quality controlled, and they show us the data. Either show us the data up front or show us the data afte