A pandemic South Koreans carefully head to the ballot box plus. This is a crisis like no other International Monetary fund says the coronavirus is sending the world towards the worst financial downturn since the Great Depression. And fears the corona virus is spreading through palestinian neighborhoods undetected. U. S. President donald trump has announced hell hold funding for the World Health Organization thats the top u. N. Body at the forefront of a Global Response to the coronavirus pandemic what trump is accusing the w. H. O. Of both a coverup and debauching the National Response to the outbreak he says the group has been spreading disinformation from china where the virus was 1st detected which he said made things worse. We have deep concerns whether americas generosity has been put to the best use possible the reality is that the w. H. O. Failed to adequately obtain vet and share information in a timely and transparent fashion the world depends on the w. H. O. To work with coun
Sanitizer and also how Global Financial shock is threatening to under half a century of Economic Growth and stability in latin america. Everyone accusing it of failing its basic duty u. S. President on trampas halted his countrys financial contributions to the World Health Organization he says the w. H. O. Not only mishandled the outbreak but even covered up how it was spreading out of china the un though says it is the worst possible moment for money to be withheld and drums critics insist he is attempting to shift blame away from himself well start with this from mike hanna in washington. In what has become a pattern President Trump used his podium to break reporters if you keep talking ill leave and you can have it out with the rest of these people if you keep talking im going to leave and you could have it out with that. Just allowed me to introduce a number of prominent members of big business the Construction Labor Workforce International union of operating engineers Jim Callagha
Thank you for being here. As the situation continues to evolve around the covid19 outbreak, we wanted to get you information about changes happening at the department impacting Service Members. I want to start with the latest numbers. Today there have been 30 seven reported cases, 18 military, 13 dependents, three civilian, and three contractors. We are continuing to monitor the situation and will provide updates each day as we receive them. Friday, deputy secretary norquist released Additional Guidance on travel. Effective today through may 11, all Domestic Travel for military personnel will be halted unless it meets one of a number of waiver criterias including Mission Central travel or humanitarian reasons. This will also restrict dod civilian hiring on dod installations to people within the immediate area of the facility. The secretary continues to state his top priority is to protect Service Members and family and maintain our ability to complete central missions. We are going to
With james hodge who is director of the center for Public Health law and policy at Arizona State university. Washington journal is next. Is next. Is next host good morning. This is washington journal for tuesday, march 17, 2020. There is very little celebrating planned due to the shutdown of bars and restaurants nationwide because of the coronavirus and further restrictions and limited by the federal government, the white house, State Governments and localities. We would love to hear what you are seeing in response to the outbreak. The7488000 is the line in eastern and central time zones. For mountain and pacific residence, 2027488001. In the line we have set aside for medical professionals. Your line, 2027488002. We would love to hear your experience. You can text us a message. That is 2027488003. We would love to hear where you are texting from, your name as well. Andwitter we are cspanwj post your comments on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. There was a briefing yesterday with the Cor
People staying in their homes, no restaurants, no bars, no congregation. The United States has been very slow to that. Particularly, the federal government has not been urging it. Just two days ago for the first time, the cdc recommended that there should be no gatherings of 50 people or more, which is way too many. The president yesterday said that we should try to avoid gatherings of 10 people or more. That is probably too many also. But this indicates to me that we are in whole new territory. I have been working on Infectious Diseases and Global Health through my life and i have never seen anything like it. And i think americans should expect with the coming weeks to have extraordinarily strict measures of social distancing. Host even before this disease, if you look at what the federal government can do, based on our Federalist Society and based on the fact that we are 50 states and all of them have their own Health Protocols and etc. , what are the challenges, the roadblocks for t