With the senate back in session today, we will talk to a leading vaccine expert from newton, massachusetts. Later, we will examine some of the new side effects from this virus. We hope you join in on the conversation. Our phone lines are open. If you live in the eastern or central time zone. 202 7488000. For those out west, 202 7488001. If you are a medical professional, we would love to hear from you. 202 7488002. Good monday evening. Thank you for being with us. We begin as we always do, look at the numbers from Johns Hopkins university. Now around the world, the number of coronavirus cases approaching 3. 6 million in 187 countries and regions. The death toll has exceeded 251,000 around the globe. Joining us from massachusetts is dr. Mark poznansky, director of the vaccine and Immunotherapy Center at mass general hospital. I want to begin with the headline today from the new york times. As states moved to reopen, at least one model predicting the u. S. Death rate could double. As you
This is the federal that passes 24 trillion federal debt passes 24 trillion. Can find us on twitter and facebook. For being with us. We want to begin with the numbers from johns hot and university, which has been covid19sck of january. More than will and. The death five countries has surpassed 203,000. That this morning from Johns Hopkins university. The comments this past week from the Senate Republican leader on the states declaring bankruptcy, getting a lot of attention across the country. Here is what he told the radio talkshow last week. [video clip] i would be in favor of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route. Theres no good reason for it to not be available. Is that it would be for federal government to send it down to future generations. Host that from the Senate Republican leader, Mitch Mcconnell. Lets get right to your phone calls. Marvin is joining us from philadelphia. Good morning. I thinknk it caller they should get the states money. At this point right now they are
Joining us. I want to thank everyone joining us. This is part two of our chats with the chairs. Democratic party leader and tonight we will with thethe discussion Republican Party chair. We are looking forward to the next time being on campus as well. We are going to talk about where the Campaign Stands but primarily against the backdrop of the Global Pandemic we are all struggling to deal with. Heres how the conversation will go. If you participated in other events, this will be familiar to you. We will start with the first part of the evening with the chair and i having a conversation. About halfway through, we will invite students to join into that conversation with their questions. For those who are participating via zoom, you will see at the bottom of your screen, the q a button, click on that, not the chat button, to leave your question. Someone from our team will get back to you and thats where you should look at your chat. They will get back to you to let you know when your tim
And hospitalizations. We have 300 across the state. That is why we decided to have a measured reopening. We are going to be datadriven in oklahoma. We are watching it. I have put up 80 mobile test sites across the state. We ranked 25th in the nation in number of testing. It is time for a measured reopening. I told oklahomans we will be data driven and continued to watch the trends but if the percentage of tests start increasing or hospitalizations increase, we will kick back one of those phases and we can reserve the rights to back up if we need to. We believe it is the time to have a measured reopening. I have a great relationship with the mayors across the state and these are tough decisions and i know they are concerned about their substance as well. I am putting guidance for the whole state. As you know, i have never been heavyhanded with the mayors in different locations. I have let them make decisions based on their communities. I am thinking about all 4 million oklahomans and gi
U. S. We will get the latest on the research and learn how the pandemic is affecting how you shop for groceries. Join in on the conversation our phone lines are open. Good monday evening, a lot to get to, but we will begin as we always do with the numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Northern 3 million confirmed cases around the world, 185 countries and regions. 210,000 deaths in the u. S. Deaths. Death toll athe about 55,000. Joining us from philadelphia is the director of the vaccine and Immunotherapy Center on the campus of the university of pennsylvania. Thank you for being with us. Guest my pleasure. Host let me begin with where you are at in terms of the research for vaccine. As i understand, you are among the most aggressive in finding a vaccine. Of a program,part coalition for epidemic preparedness and innovation. They have assembled a coalition of many different parties to ame together to develop vaccine countermeasure for covid19, and our particular focus of this gro