Then, taxpayers for common sense president steve ellis talks about what is in the to trillion dollar coronavirus aid bill recently passed by congress. Washington journal is next. Host with the United States death toll from coronavirus approaching 2500, the president made the announcement he is extending social distancing guidelines until at least april 30. Big news coming out of that briefing with reporters last night. We want to get your reaction this monday morning, march 30, to the president s news extending the social distancing guidelines to april 30. If you live in the eastern or central time zones, call 202 7488000. The mountain1 four and pacific time zones. If you are a medical professional, we have a number for you 202 7488002. A couple of other ways to take part in the conversation this morning. Send us a text at 202 7488003. Please leave your name and the city you are calling from. You can also send a tweet. cspanwj is our twitter handle. You can also post a comment on faceb
Total deaths approaching 35,000. We have been reviewing the u. S. Numbers this morning. The numberssee in and recent trends and other news from recent days. Put this in perspective for us. When i personally try to put this in perspective i think about my 35 years working in Global Health and there are two events that i think i use personally as touchstones in dealing with this current crisis. One is india. I worked in the 1990s in india and saw firsthand in 1994 how the ague crisis brought the country to its knees. It was mismanaged. There was miscommunication. Fear was created. A reactive mode that started. And so the country shut down. It lost millions if not billions of dollars in tourist revenue. But the Indian Government learned from it. An infectioused Disease Surveillance Program best publicy is the Health Infectious Disease Surveillance Program in the world. Its an amazing story. The other event is haiti. I was Deputy Director of the Panamerican Health organization which is the