At Johns Hopkins here to talk about the coronavirus and the response. Lets begin with this virus. Itt exactly is it and how is that it became something that went from an animal to a human . Guest it is a respiratory virus. There are coronavirus is that circulate and are a frequent cause of the common cold, but this is a new one and people do not have immunity, and seems to be reducing more serial beer severe symptoms. It originated in animals and jumped over to humans and became capable of being transmitted to humans. When that occurred, we dont fully know. The initial outbreak was detected in december and it is likely it started a month before then or earlier. Host how does this jump from animal to human . Guest the mechanism is not known but likely a human came in contact with an animal that was infected and the virus mutated so it could live in humans, and became adapted to living in humans and could spread between humans, got the right receptors to bind to the lungs. Host is it ing
Hello and welcome to bbc news. The authorities in the chinese capital, beijing, are asking people returning to the city to quarantine themselves for 14 days to prevent the spread of the covid i9 virus. State media says those who refuse will be punished. The order was issued to coincide with the end of the Lunar New Year holiday, extended this year to help contain the outbreak. Speaking in munich, the Chinese Foreign minister defended beijings management of the epidemic and criticised what he called the overreaction of some other countries. Translation this is a new virus, so it takes time for people to understand more about it, and it will be a gradual process. The same has happened in other countries. If we look at the past epidemics, we will see that the government will eventually make decisions based ona eventually make decisions based on a series of tests, research and development. That is responsible government. The Chinese Government promptly picked up clues that emergency was ha
Yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. Theyre there. They have the tests, and the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test. And make or break. Bernie sanders facing an uphill climb with six more states voting tomorrow, the key one being michigan, as joe biden packs up more key endorsements and opens up a doubledigit lead in one poll. Were taking on the political establishment. Were going to win this election. Senator sanders is a good guy, likes to say we need a record turnout to beat donald trump. Hes absolutely right, and were the campaign thats going to do it. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Were continuing our breaking News Coverage of a trading massacre in the markets after an historic drop on wall street. Heres where things stand at this hour. You can see that the markets are down 1,375 points on the dow jones, standard poors, 154, the nasdaq composite 389. Less than ten minutes after the opening bell today, the massive selloff h
World needs to come together in an unprecedented fashion to fight the pandemic. Hell explain why thats crucial. But first, heres my take. Something important has happened over the course of this crisis. Estimates of expected deaths have gone down by a lot. On march 31st, the white house estimated that even with social distancing policies in place, between 100,000 and 240,000 americans would die of covid19. Dr. Deborah birx, the white houses Coronavirus Response coordinator said that that was, quote, our real number. Dr. Anthony fauci, the nations top Infectious Disease expert, recently indicated he now believes it will be more like 60,000. The university of washington model, which has been cited by the white house, predicted on march 26th that assuming social distancing policies that stay in place until june 1st, u. S. Deaths by august would most likely be around 81,000. By april 10th, they had made many revisions to get to their current number, 61,500. Predictions for hospitalization
But first, heres my take. Something important has happened over the course of this crisis. Estimates of expected deaths have gone down by a lot. On march 31st, the white house estimated that even with social distancing policies in place, between 100,000 and 240,000 americans would die of covid19. Dr. Deborah birx, the white houses Coronavirus Response coordinator said that that was, quote, our real number. Dr. Anthony fauci, the nations top Infectious Disease expert, recently indicated he now believes it will be more like 60,000. The university of washington model, which has been cited by the white house, predicted on march 26th that assuming social distancing policies that stay in place until june 1st, u. S. Deaths by august would most likely be around 81,000. By april 10th, they had made many revisions to get to their current number, 61,500. Predictions for hospitalization rates have also proven to be way too high. On march 30th, the university of washington projected that california