If i could have everyones attention, we would like to get started. My name is Brian Anderson on the editor of city journal and i want to welcome you here today on behalf of the Manhattan Institute. It is with great pleasure that i get to introduce and coauthor with the esteemed psychologist roy in the fascinating and useful new book, the power bed. The negativity affects rules as in how we can roll it and it is unsettled by the way outside the room here. John has long been one of the nations leading voices on then intersection of science and Public Policy and make no mistake however calmly reasonably expressed, is a very contrarian voice. It was johns new york time the big city which ran from the mid 90s until 2002 i think, the first may be event of his work. There he took on any number of prevailing myths about cities from the efficacy of rent control, to the roof root causes to homelessness to environmental policy and one remarkable was born from johns irritation and Rosie Odonnells
A look at how the pandemic is fueling anti asian racism in the United States. Tear gas and bullets claims kenyas police are going too far as they enforce cope with 19 curfews. So the United Kingdom is rapidly becoming one of the worst affected by corona virus in europe they have been more than 500. 00 deaths in 24 hours for the 1st time including a 13 year old child the government is again being forced to defend its plan for testing saying it hopes to get hundreds of thousands of test frontline staff within weeks its been under growing pressure to expand the program especially for vulnerable National Health Service Workers nearly 30000 people are infected with the virus can i just make it absolutely and the Prime Minister has been very clear about this is as well is that increasing Testing Capacity is absolutely the governments top priority were now at 10000. 00 tests a day were rolling out Additional Networks of labs and testing sites and in terms of ph d. For the last 2 weeks. 390000
A new global milestone. Saying its. The pandemic is feeling anti asian racism and the United States. And austria joins 3 other European Countries in making the wearing of masks outside the home compulsory. Fellow is growing numbers of people follow the advice of governments and stay home cities empty and businesses shut up saw the rapidly spreading coronavirus continues to yield a bleak string of statistics spain has marked another record high 864 more people dying in the past 24 hours while infections pasta 100000 its hope though that the peak might have been reached and the World Health Organization says the number of deaths internationally has doubled in the past week and in the next few days the 1000000 infections mark should be passed wall street slumped on the news that the u. S. Should be prepared for as many as 240000 deaths the jones closing down near the points or 4. 4 percent and a further 563 people have died here in the u. K. Its worse daily death figure and 2000 Frontline
Regeneron, four of the greatest in the world for doing exactly what theyre doing. And currently 10 different therapeutic agents are in active trials an some are looking incredibly successful we have to go through a process. It will be a fairly quick process, i tell you based on what the fda told me. 15 are in plans for clinical trials. Theyre advancing rapidly. A Second Company announced that the fda authorized it is vaccine candidate to begin clinical trials. Johnson johnson is already there. I believe theyre the one thats first and now we have a Second Company that Just Announced and we were just, was just approved. So we have two companies at that level, for the vaccine itself. We have you no performed 100, well, if you think of this, 1. 79 million tests. That is one million, 790,000 tests nationwide. I think were going to put up a screen here someplace that theyre on cue, just on cue. And here it is. This is the process starting on 5 march and ending right there, right about now, r
Navy captain breathy crow zio was fired for criticizing the navys response to the pandemic bring you analysis of the political fallout. Also on the program why fund a lockdown is heating low income households the hottest here in germany some charges of closed in children could no longer rely on Free School Meals a family of 6 who are feeling the pinch. Cos they earn hundreds of thousands of pounds per week the English Premier League once its full fall is to take a coronavirus pay cost play is pushing back. Im tired read im glad you could join me there are now more than 300000 confirmed cases of corona virus in the United States this is more. And anywhere else in the world right now in hard hit regions like new york state and california medical supplies have started to run lawyers the death toll already stands at over 8000 speaking to the American Public on saturday President Donald Trump warned that the coming weeks would likely see that number climb even higher this will be probably t