So weve seen a year on year 6. 8 percent drop in chinas g. D. P. Which is really significant and quite in line with peoples expectations analysts expectations because the current virus control measures that the government put in place for a few weeks in february and march really saw the economy come to a standstill factories were closed businesses were closed hundreds of millions of people were stuck in doors and just to unpack that figure a bit more also manufacturing vestment in the 1st quarter was down 25 percent year on year Infrastructure Investment also down 20 percent retail sales down 19 percent so really at the more when the government is doing all it can to get the economy restarted the National Bureau of statistics has said that the economy faces new difficulties and new challenges but the long term growth of the economy shouldnt be affected well at the moment there are questions as to whether that can be possible because this is really taking chinas economy is really taking
A 51 percent increase in the number of reported cases in my own continent africa and a 60 per cent increase in the number of reported does with the current challenge of all painting testing kits its likely that the real numbers are higher than reported or rossi has signed is that an epidemiologist and professor at Massey College he says the pandemic poses a major threat to africas densely populated cities. Enemy of Public Health is a kraut and when you think of most african countries the uk hard to rise by overcrowding its actually in the urban areas but adding to that as well as Health Care Infrastructure are factors that can lead to serious illness and death for example endemic all year round in most of those countries are diseases such as tuberculosis it beat aids and malnutrition and those conditions tend to lead to compromised immune systems and therefore in fewer and lead death be done and lead to soonest disease and death so its a perfect recipe so dry an epidemic in the 2 explo
A white house that continues to try to put a positive spin on very negative news but thats going to become increasingly difficult because the numbers are expected to continue to rise in terms of the number of americans that are filing for unemployment claims in the United States in fact its expected that in the coming weeks that number that were at right now in the low 20 millions well it could double because the reality is that over night its predicted that roughly 46000000 americans lost their jobs and the only reason those numbers arent up at 46000000 right now is that the states where they processed these claims just cant cope with the sheer number of claims theyre overwhelmed theyre using antiquated Computer Systems and as a result the numbers we have are not really reflective of how many people dont have a job right now and just to make matters worse quickly the money that had been in that big rescue package the 2. 00 trillion dollars rescue package from congress well 35000000000
Comes to mind, and probably comes to most everyone elses mind, is the 1918 influenza pandemic in terms of its rapidity, how fast it spread across the world, and its scope and span. In the 19 century the cholera epidemic would be the most, the clearest analogy. Susan we are going to have an opportunity to dig into some of those lessons of history a bit more, but when you look at the response, of course things are so much different for society now. You talk about how important it is to learn lessons from past pandemics and epidemics. What lessons have we clearly learned . Christian what lessons have we clearly learned . That is a good lesson. Im only smiling because as an historian it is not a was clear we have learned lessons from the past. The one lesson we probably advise and envisioned most is to roll out things as methodically as possible, to Pay Attention to reliable news holdes, to do our best, to certain sectors of society from spreading pandemics. We are not seeing a tremendous
Christian yeah, there are several. I think the most recent one that comes to mind, and probably comes to most everyone elses mind, is the 1918 influenza pandemic in terms of its rapidity, how fast it spread across the world, and its scope and span. In the 19 century the cholera epidemic would be the most, the clearest analogy. Susan we are going to have an opportunity to dig into some of those lessons of history a bit more, but when you look at the response, of course things are so much different for society now. You talk about how important it is to learn lessons from past pandemics and epidemics. What lessons have we clearly learned . Christian what lessons have we clearly learned . That is a good lesson. Im only smiling because as an historian, it is not always clear we have learned lessons from the past. The one lesson we probably envisioned most is to roll out things as methodically as possible, to Pay Attention to reliable news sources, to do our best, to hold off on blaming cert