University of pittsburgh, one of the nations major health centers, in cooperation with the American Medical Society and United States Public Health Service Bring you the silent invaders, an uptotheminute report on asian influenza. How do you do . Im carl ives. Throughout history, mankind has wage many battles in order to protect his family or nation against misfortune, disaster, or even possible extinction. While sometimes these wars have been catastrophic, it was the catastrophe of 1918, when an influenza epidemic swept through our own nation as well as the entire world. Unlike the battles of nation against nation, or humanity against the forces of nature where man has often have the opportunity to prepare himself, the battle against disease throughout the centuries have found men in the unfortunate position of having to combat this enemy only after it had been infiltrated his community and infected much of the population. Recently, you have become aware of a pandemic, or worldwide ep
Degrees. Everything as far as low clouds is being you shall approximated south. Napa airport now 39, fairfield at 40. We are about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday at this time, and big changes for the weekend. Today will be sunny but breezy, highs near average to slightly below. Lets get over to sal to see if anything is going on. My guess is no but you never know. Theres a stalled vehicle eastbound 24 near 680, and chp is checking on it. For the most part, we have the best commute of the week so far. In the last few days we have had a couple serious crashes. Today hopefully we dont have any, and Public Transit systems are also doing well. Now back to the headlines. Time now 7 01. For six bay area counties, extended stay at home orders will continue until may 3rd. An closed. Essential businessesto keep employees at a safe distance from each other, and most Construction Projects are now prohibited. Every unnecessary contact with another person increases the chance the virus can spread
Hey, connell. Cohn cohn were connell were getting hit grim milestones with the covid19 it would appear. Total number of cases will top 200,000 by end of the day. The in new york city the death toll has topped 1000. 43,000 plus infections, death toll at 1096. Now one of the issues here locally has been how to keep the firstresponders safe. If you look at the nypd, the new York City Police department, 15 of the workforce has called out sick. You know that adds up to about 5000 workers. So a little bit more than that. Over 1000 Uniformed Police officers in new york have tested covid19 positive. And some others told us they have had trouble actually getting the test or, you know, waiting a number of days to get the results back. They have to sit out on the job while they wait out the results in some cases. Similar situation at the fire department. Similar situation at ems. All of that is going on. While help is coming in on the medical side, we talked all week long about the huge hospital
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Refusing to pay rent. The crew of. A warship captain. Publicly calling for the. Chain of command. Coming to you with the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the Weekly International alone welcome. Lets take you to the broader picture of where the world is right now with the code. 19 pandemic billions of people are currently under some sort of locked on and the number of coronavirus cases still rises theres not more than 1200000 registered infections more than 67000 people have died glimmer of hope though a quarter of a 1000000 people are recovered. Lets take you through some of the stories from the week that was regarding corona virus starting in israel which this week made sure all communities abided by a strict locked iron rule but it proved difficult there are more than 8000 known infections there the spite intense Movement Restrictions one hot spot is an ultraorthodox town where locals are ignoring social distancing advice polis