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Director, kari watkins, discusses the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. Its sunday, april the 19th. Ahead, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has surpassed 700,000 in the u. S. And the death toll in our country, nearly 39,000. A number of states are beginning to bend the curve, leading to a new debate on how quickly can or should reopen. That is the starting point on this sunday morning. Join in on the conversation. If you live in the eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000. Ut west, 202 7488001 is your state ready to lift restrictions . Tell us where you live and what you think. You can always send us a text , onage, 202 7488003 twitter, or on facebook. Look at the numbers around the world, courtesy of Johns Hopkins university with total confirmed cases at 2. 3 million and deaths around the world in excess of countries. Ths in 185 yet today at the white house and the Daily Briefing the president at this about sta
Not with family. The role tkhap lanes fille fill during our Health Crisis. Soledad welcome back to matter of fact. Isolated and alone we hear stores of covid19 patients soledad im soledad obrien. Spending their last moments quarantined in hospital and that welcome to matter of fact. Means no family present with a the coronavirus pandemic has comforting word or holding their exposed many things and how ill prepared lots of countries were hand. Hospital chaplains are trying to for a Health Crisis and how bridge that offering peace in a time of uncertainty. Dependent we are on technology i had a conversation with and how resilient we can be we reverend martin montonye the need to be. One other thing that has come to supervisor of clinical pastoral education at nyc health and light in these days the hospitals, bellevue. Disparity that leave so many to soledad can you give me some suffer. Already the data shows black and insight into how much access you brown people are more likely to are g
You can also send us a text this morning, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from, and otherwise catch up with us on social media. That is facebook. Com cspan and cspanwj. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling in now if you are an essential worker in this country. As you are calling in, we show you this map from abc news of the 46 states and washington, d. C. That have enacted policies to close nonessential businesses in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. The exact number of essential by. Oyees, hard to come there is an estimate from the Brookings Institution that relied on department of Homeland Security designations of essential. Atut 7 million employees Grocery Stores, pharmacies, and bigbox stores. When it comes to the state of california, the Public Policy institute of california estimates that in a typical year, roughly one third to one half of californias labor force is employed in essential operations. The standard
Original projection of 100,000, 200,000 deaths it looks like our mitigation efforts like social distancing might be working the turn around in less than a week is sudden, especially when the death toll keeps surge being, said were making progress against the pandemic. S p gained 3. 4 . Nasdaq climbed 2. 8 . People are betting on some return of normalcy perhaps as as soon as next month maybe thats when america could be open for business i have been a whole time big believer in dr. Fauci. Ive been a believer since he turned hiv from a death sentence to a manageable lifelong condition, something that seemed inconceivable in the 80s. Its hard to see fauci be more optimistic about the battle against covid19 lets be clear he didnt say we could stop doing social distancing. He serm certainly didnt say wel go start having parties. He said, quote, now is not the time to pull back, its the time to intensify thats the caveat. We should be proud of what were doing and mitigate and keep the pressur