A 14 hour curfew to combat coronavirus. And in other news the violence in guinea as anger grows over a controversial referendum critics say the president is using to extend his term. More coronavirus cases are being reported around the world indonesia thailand both reporting new infections with thailand seeing its biggest jump yet but europe still appears to be the epicenter of the pandemic perhaps the most shocking numbers so far came in on saturday when italy reported nearly 800 deaths in one day in the past few minutes spain has just raised his death toll by and nearly 400 ok lets look at the global picture the Johns Hopkins university in the. Us tracking the number of infections deaths and recoveries from the corona virus that you can see on your screen is to just their breaking just 3073411304 extension 9 recovered 92383 roy challenge joins us live from Central London with the latest news out of europe and indeed the u. K. As well so another grim day but this time were talking pri
Fact there has never been a time when humans were not affected during his time as a selfdescribed disease detective he has had his own brushes with viruses and wnfectious disease in contagion in 1995 he worked in zaire for the first a bola after 9 11 he was called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax and in 2003 called to hong kong to help quarantines ours. These are some of the stories he chronicles in the next pandemic as a disease hunter and has been trying to prepare the public for Health Emergencies and he has seen it all. Telling us microbes will always be a problem he also writes that in all all epidemics and pandemics are inevitable in fact most can be mitigated if not prevented. But how do we have enough resources . To help a separate the hype from the facts what poses the greatest risk of what we need to do please join me on a Public Health journey by welcoming doctor kohn to the Carnegie Council this morning. [applause] thank you very much. Good morning everybody.
The francis prize for outstanding books on American History 1997. He is current New York Times bestseller is the great influenza. Hes here to talk about that with us today. Hes currently a consultant with the World Health Organization on the subject of influenza. When hes done speaking, if you would like to ask questions, there will be two microphones in the back of the room. You can go and get a microphons are your questions can be heard. Please join me in welcoming john barry. [applause] thank you very much. Its kind of funny to be sitting here in a Community Room of the Louisiana Legislature talking about this subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of the pandemic i cant think of a better place to talk about politics in the legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in the newspapers these days you say the death toll was over 20 million. That estimate comes from the first of the disease thats fairly accurate for the we
Administration is taking action to make sure we have the resources to fight the global pandemic. It has been a brutal pandemic for over 150 countries all over the world. Weve had Great Success over the , themonth and as you know millions of pieces of equipment have been delivered successfully and we have made it available to the states and the governors have been very gracious. I have to tell you the governors have been great. The governor of new jersey has grateful. I think they have appreciated what the federal government has done. You look at the hospitals being built all over the country, it is really incredible. Afternoon, i invoke the defense production act to prioritize federal contracts for Business Leaders. The insulators are a big deal and we delivered thousands of them and often times you dont turning out we are that we have to produce large numbers and we will be doing a lot more. Demonstrate that we will not hesitate to use the authority of the federal government to combat
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