A National Emergency. The first healthrelated emergency since 2009. The declaration is coming as the death toll in the u. S. Stands at 41. The number of confirmed or presumptive cases around the country has surpassed 1600. In a spush uburb of new york cie governor announced starting today there will be drive through testing for the virus. A number of state legislatures are suspended. Others have already finished their sessions. Canadas parliament is suspended after the prooipss wife tested positive. The Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is quarantined. Many pro sports are delayed or cancelled. Ncaa march madness is cancelled. No division one mens or womens tournaments. Public schools are closing in maryland, michigan, new mexico, oregon, washington d. C. , l. A. , and san diego. The disney and universal theme parks in florida and california are closing. Universal is a corporate cousin of msnbc, and the Mormon Church is cancelling churches worldwide. The bicentennial of the churchs founding
At nebraska medicine, which is one of the top places, so if i can be anywhere in the world right now, this is the place to be as i recover. Whats weird is ive had no symptoms of the virus since i first got it after the first 48 hours. I had that 103 degree spike in fever, and that lasted about eight hours. My dry cough remained for about two weeks, but other than that ive been feeling fine, and now im in day 39 of my quarantine, so its been a long ordeal. Here as hightech as they are, im going to show you this, they come out with a post it note. Yep. As hightech as they are here, this shows my test, my nasal passages still positive, so i am stuck here for a while. Theyre going to do another test on me today. Do you do the test yourself, or do they do the tests on you . Oh, no, they do the test. It goes deep up the nostrils, deep down the throat. I also am doing a Clinical Study that wont help me but hopefully provide answers, so theyre also doing swaps under my eyelids and one deep up
Years. I got elected as a rich person. It cost me billions of dollars to be president and i am so happy i did it. Who cares. Who cares. All right. That is the president of the United States talking about his net worth during this national crisis. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is monday, march 23rd. So, mika, its interesting, you and i had a different reaction to yesterday. Yep. We also i mean obviously weve been very concerned from the very beginning, weve expressed our concerns about the president and starting in january, the intel agencies warning him that a pandemic was coming, that could really be deadly. Also, very concerned about the president saying at rallies that the press was whipping this up into a frenzy and to a hoax level. Been concerned about people with cable news shows talking about how this was just the press was trying to get donald trump through this. A lot of things to be very concerned about, the president saying if you want to test you can get a tes
Hot spots wear cloth masks whenever theyre out in public. But even that recommendation came immediately with an admonition from dr. Deborah berx. One, masks are not a substitution and, number two, still not enough people are practicing social distancing. As a result, she says, were not succeeding and we are not bending the curve. Part of the problem may be the refusal of the president to establish national standards. Even dr. Fauci said, i dont understand why theyre not doing that. At least ten state still have no statewide stay at home orders in place. All of those have republican governors and, as we saw with florida, the president is loathe to tell a gop governor what to do. Where they are stay at home orders, some governments and local leaders are cracking down. Couple instances here, in maryland, violators can be imprisoned for up to a year and fined 500. In newark, new jersey, they issued hundreds of summons and in Georgia State parole officers are prepared to deal with people wh
Scenario. This is going to be a very painful, very, very painful two weeks. This is tough. People are suffering. People are dying. The president taking that newly somber tone while continuing to contradict some of his own assessments about the virus. And on the front lines, the death toll in new york city alone now topping 1,000 as the city starts getting some much needed reinforcements. It will continue on into may. All right. Lets start with shannon at the white house. Rehema ellis is in new york city. That gives you a sense of what officials are preparing for. Shannon let me begin with you. The u. S. Surgeon general spoke on the today show this morning with Savannah Guthrie on a big question, whether or not americans should be wearing face masks. Thats something that a lot of Health Officials have had some contradicting or confusing messaging about. Take a listen to what he said. We now know that theres a significant amount of asymptomatic spread and the task force has asked the cdc