3 months. Very serious cliffs that hurt lots of people. And officials are holding their annual summit on tuesday china is expected to be a primary focus for those discussions. Today so lets go and get. Big stimulus this week as the g. O. P. Rolled out their new one trillion dollar Coronavirus Relief package bill on monday Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell unveiled up plan dubbed the heels are. We made it Senate Republican to a ministration had been consulting over the last few weeks to come up with a realistic proposal. With what we think is an appropriate amount of Additional Debt to be good to the economy at this time. We think it is about a trillion dollars. And weve allocated it in a way that we think makes the most. For the country at this particular time. Already theres a split between Senate Republicans on the bill but next come to go sheesh and what the democrats this is ahead of some looming deadlines all Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer called the relief package tota
So normally maybe youd be in an i. C. U. For the past few months youve been looking into this where are you at now with the Research Well we just we Just Launched a little over a week ago and what were trying to do is to recruit 50000 covert survivors to this study because you know its becoming more and more obvious as people are starting to emerge from the. Immediate impact of the virus that that they are developing neurological problems and many of these are our cognitive challenges things like problems in concentrating on as in memory problems and so solving making simple decisions and i think we need to get on top of this very quickly you really think and youre an expert in this field that this anecdotal evidence of a lot of tasteless of well these may all be connected with brain function. Well you know we know that i mean if you think about what goes on in cody its essentially a spiritual problem and that of course interferes with the oxygen supply to the brain and we know a lot a
Youre an expert in this field that this anecdotal evidence of a lot of tasteless of well these may all be connected with brain function. Well you know we know that i mean if you think about what goes on in codys its essential you are spiritually problem and that of course interferes with the oxygen supply to the brain and we know a lot about how anything that interferes with the oxygen get into your brain can affect brain function now it may be that there are direct viral affects maybe the virus itself sex that right not at i dont think we will be clear on that yet but we do know that there are these indirect effects caused by a so the oxygen being our ventilator being in the i. C. U. Being on sedatives all of these things known to affect brain function so what is your hunch because its arguably not as exciting for a scientist if it is indeed just a function of respiratory. Impacts from grown a virus or blog. Or thing that is affecting the brain as opposed to the virus itself somehow a
Largest number of new cases in just one day and mexico are also contributing to those high numbers Mexican Health authorities reported a daily record spike of more than 2973 infections on thursday alone while argentina pushed its critical deadline for its 65000000000 dollar debt latin americas 3rd largest economy agreed to continue talks with their creditors through june 2nd and in a rare move china drop its g. D. P. Target for 2020 the worlds 2nd largest economy made the decision this was due to uncertainties over the coronavirus chinas economy contracted by 6. 8 percent in the 1st quarter well it was as its 1st decline in more than 4 decades and in a Virtual Meeting the World Health Organization said its working nonstop since the start of covert 19 to really help coordinate a response. Do you miss the beginning of the pandemic doubloon john howards world good day and night to coordinate the Global Response also the levels of the organization we are today did the plan earlier this mon
Open skies treaty which was supposed to build trust. And the worldwide coronavirus cases it topped 5000000 and as brazil battles to control its spiraling outbreak the government is facing a growing criticism over its handling of the crisis. Im Claire Richardson welcome to the show lawmakers in hong kong say new security laws that china wants to impose on the city are an attack on its autonomy the legislation is aimed at curbing the territories proDemocracy Movement the proposals are one of the centerpieces of chinas annual National Peoples congress which has just opened in beijing theres outrage at the new measures in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of china. Some 3000. 00 delegates from all over china have gathered for the National Congress in beijing normally lasting 2 weeks the annual congress has been shortened this year to just one because of the coronavirus pandemic so its straight down to business the National Committee chair says new security laws for hong kong will be