The World Health Organization declares covid19 a pandemic so far, there are over 120,000 cases in over 114 countries. With over 4,300 deaths shocking news in the entertainment world, hollywood legend tom hanks and his wife rita wilson reveal that they have both tested positive for the coronavirus. Hared the news. He said they felt a bit tired, like they had colds and some body aches he said rita had some chills that came in wet, slight fevers as well. As for whats next, the couple is now in isolation and are being quarantined in australia centuries old tradition in peril, the st. Patricks day in new york was postponed for the first time in 258 years. The event was cancelled in chicago, as boston and dublin also drop the festivities. Meanwhile, in new york, the state is taking matters into its own hands hiring private labs to help with testing. More than 200 people have tested positive so far in new york. And millions of americans could get a tax break. The feds are reportedly consideri
In december of 2019, and infection startedhi in china and is spread rapidly through the wilpon region and by january, there were thousands of people affected to the foremost before the most of the world knew it existed and now almost every country in the world has infections. Hundreds of thousands of people that if in contact with this virus. And unfortunately we have lost thousands of people worldwide. In United States numbers continue to increase and the number of people that we can actually test. Fortunately the vast majority of the people get this virus have little to no symptoms. Cold or mild food to them but for a vulnerable population our elderly population, hard to among issues, smokers diabetics, can be a very serious thing. The challenge that we face in our healthcare, is that for every person that walks in and gets tested, the facetoface their healthcare workers especially in rural areas are saved that may be the only healthcare professional for that entire county. And if th
Good morning. I am like friedman, the 113th president of the National Press club. I am journalist in residence at university of maryland global conference campus and the executive producer of the public broadcasting series the dekalb report. The spread of coronavirus is now affecting everything from travel and major events to the stock market, in addition to the human toll. Government, community, faithbased and corporate organizations across the country and around the world are meeting, monitoring and urging people to take precautionary measures, including washing your hands frequently, using hand sanitizer, social distancing on site, and staying home if you are not feeling well. We are here this morning to learn more about how our local cities and counties are preparing for possible outbreaks. Do local Health Officials have enough protective equipment, including masks, respirators and gloves on hand . Are Hospital Personnel and First Responders trained up to deal with coronavirus pati
A mission to save lives cuban doctors traveling to corona virus infected countries reject criticism but theyre being used to spread propaganda. And from designer gowns to making face masks a Fashion Designer in lebanon on says the call to help with much needed protective medical clothing. We begin in the u. S. Where President Donald Trump has Just Announced an extension to social distancing guidelines to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus the u. S. Is now recorded more than 130000 infections the highest of any country trump says the outbreak in the u. S. Is likely to peak in 2 weeks. Did you live up to 2200000000 and some people said it could even be higher than that so youre talking about 2200000 deaths 2200000 people from this and so if we could hold that down as were saying 2100000 its a horrible number maybe even less but 2100000 so we have between 10200000. We altogether of done a very good. In other developments england stephanie chief medical officer has warned that it co
Good morning, i am the 113th president of the National Press club. The executive producer of the public broadcasting series. The spread of coronavirus is now affecting everything from travel and major events to the stock market, in addition to the human toll. Government, community, faithbased and corporate organizations across the country and around the world are meeting, monitoring and urging people to take precautionary measures, including washing your hands frequently, using hand sanitizer, social distancing on site and staying home if you are not feeling well. We are here this morning to learn more about how our local cities and counties are preparing for possible outbreaks. Do local Health Officials have enough protective equipment, including masks and gloves on hand . Are Hospital Personnel and First Responders trained up to deal with coronavirus patients . Are tests for the virus readily available . What is being done to educate the public in our local communities . To help answ