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
You live to the state department for a briefing bisected trey pompeo. Sec. Pompeo im happy to take some questions as well about what we are doing. Tot being said, i wanted come here today to know the state Department Remains fully engaged across the broad range of matters even as we tackle this Global Pandemic. To defendgive so much life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness more than we do here in the United States. We are doing that work all over the world. That work continues. Thats what i wanted to share with you today. Lets start with one of our most important topics, terrorism. Today, the department of state is announcing our intent to a specially designated global terrorist. He was previously active in iraq. He was named the leader of isis after we killed abu bock after we killed albaghdadi last year. We remain continued to defeat isis no matter who they designate as their leader. Continuing on designations and our leadership, the department is sanctioning nine entities based in
Saw a briefing yesterday by the White House Task force and a number of news outlets have reported a ramping up, this turn from the president. What did you hear in terms of extra measures that came out of the briefing that caught your ear . Host many countries have been aggressively getting guest many countries have been aggressively doing social distancing. The u. S. Has been very slow to that. Particularly the federal government has not been urging it. Just two days ago for the first time 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. Thats probably too many also. But this indicates to me that we are in whole new territory. I have been working on and globaldiseases health through my life and i have never seen anything like this and i think americans should expect in the coming weeks to have extraordinarily strict measures of social distancing. Even
Cspan. Org coronavirus. Host another briefing late yesterday at the white house of the Coronavirus Task force. We will show you bits of that throughout the morning and we will hear from you as well. Here is the reporting on that briefing, the front page of the Washington Times. Shut down. U. S. To the president changes tone as coronavirus threat to america grows more serious. They write that President Trump implored americans to stop eating inside restaurants, bars and food courts to avoid groups of 10 or more for the next 15 days as the u. S. Tries to avoid the fate of china and italy in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. The guidelines say americans should avoid discretionary travel and stay home if they are sick. President trump also wants americans to work from home if possible to disrupt chains of transmission. The Washington Times writes it was a shift in tone from mr. Trump relate in february protected that the u. S. Would tackle all of its cases swiftly, he now sa
Nutrients and this is example is cholesterol. When i graduated law school in early 70s and early 80s, cholesterol was a demon we were told you have eat foods low in colest cholesterol and egg took a big hit and egg are a cheap source of income in protein for lowincome people. And now in the new dietary guidelines for american that is will go 2015 to 2020 cholesterol is not a concern. This is covered in the news media. And it took about 2030 years but the Nutrition Community has changed its mind on cholesterol. The u. S. Dietary guidelines say cholesterol in foods is no longer a consume and we can go ahead and eat eggs again. This time it seems to be added sugar poses the same questions, is that the best approach to changing culture, changing consumer demand for healthier foods . Now, i want to turn off the slides. Okay. Next point is that the u. S. Dietary guidelines when it talks about added sugars, it says that a dietary pattern that is low in added sugars and has various levels of n