Our fears would be a. Message from the medical staff on the front lines in the fight against the karada street. The air. The coronavirus pandemic continues to tighten its grip on europe theres no sign that the infection rate is slowing with thousands more confront every day and the death toll is rising to just over 3400. 00 people have died in italy more than anywhere else in the world including china infections of suppost 40000. 00 the government will now deploy the army to enforce a lockdown in long body the region was to hit in spain the death toll is now past 1000. 00 infections there have also risen to nearly 20000. 00 and iran has Just Announced a further 149. 00 deaths bringing its total. More than 1400 president has some rouhani is calling on iranians to stay united to tackle the crisis they want to the u. S. The governor of the countrys most populous state california has told everyone to stay home one followers did sections of been reporting well take you live to the u. S. In
Good morning, everyone, im joanne meyers. We are delighted to welcome dr. Ali khan. Dr. Khan will be discussing his book the next pandemic. As former director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the centers for Disease Control and prevention dr. Khan has been on the front lines in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. Hes not the first one to have done so. Throughout history humans have been fighting diseases, deadly wars against contagions and there has never been a time where humans were not affects with microbes and fought against him. During khans time our speaker has had with contagions. He worked among red cross for the first ebola crisis. After 911 called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax in the Senate Office building. A disease hunter, if you will, mission was to read the governments efforts to prepare public for disease outbreaks and health emergencies. He has seen it all. He also writes that not all epidemics and pandemics ar
Back of the room, my daughter who is doing a great job. , lets talk to you about whats going on today. First, what i try to communicate in these briefings is are the facts of the situation. And facts can be uplifting, they can be depressing at times, they can be confusing at times, but i think facts are empowering. In a situation like this, not knowing the facts is worse because thats when you feel out of control or when you feel that you are getting collective facts or you are being deceived by the information you are getting. That is actually the worst situation. I say to my people in every situation, just give me the facts first. And then let me understand what the situation and reality is. And then well go from there. Thats what i tried to do. The facts on this situation are increasingly important on two levels. Public health, but also the economic facts. We have been focusing on the Public Health facts. And the response of the Public Health system to the virus. More and more we no
A growing list of schools, events, conferences and concerts called off because of the outbreak. Companies urging employees to work from home. Just ahead our closer look at the Public Health strategy of social distancing and why it could be the key to staving off a crisis. Biden wins big. The former Vice President crushes Bernie Sanders hopes of a comeback, cruising to victory in hard fought michigan and other states. Is he signaling its time for the race to wrap up . I want to thank Bernie Sanders and his supporters for the Tireless Energy and passion. Whats next . With the to men set to face off on the debate stage in days. All that, Harvey Weinstein set to learn his sentence in a matter of hours. Severe weather alert. Alice tracking strong storms in the south still reeling from those devastating tornadoes. Road to recovery. Crash into the wall, into the air goes newman. A today exclusive with nascars ryan newman aft terrifying daytona 500 crash. The amazing story of how he managed to
A person. And im sure the person would inform you, in order to do a best a Health Care Provider needs to address in full personal protective equipment. Full personal protective equipment. There is a swab put in bag of the nose all the way to the back of the throat who is put in media. The next person tested that Health Care Provider has to change all the personal protective equipment. When you put that in, highly likely a person coughs or sneezes is at risk. Were trying to fix now by mobile platforms, enable high throughput of the swabbing. Were doing technological things that might be break throughs to make it much faster but we certainly expect that from thousands of People Per Day we will be at the tens of thousands of People Per Day this week according to those who are. Buck stop with you, mr. President . The buck stop with you . Normally. When you hear this, has never been done before in this country, if you look back at take a look at some things that took place in 09 or 11, what