Hot spots like new york seems to be flattening. Positive news thats fueling calls to reopen the country sooner rather than later. But many experts say we cant do that safely without fixing a testing system that is falling short. Heres abcs matt gutman. Hi. How are you . Im dr. Fox. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. Whats your name . Suselle smith. Were going to do a covid test on you. Its a nasal swab. Okay . Reporter its just before daybreak in california and dr. Katz isnt letting the rain slow him down. Donned head to toe in ppe he and his team are conducting test after test for residents here who fear they may have covid19. Im done . Thats it. Well call you with the result. Take care. Reporter and youre going to do 150 of these today . 150 today, 150 tomorrow and 150 on wednesday. They have the tests and the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test. Reporter more than five weeks since this promise widespread Rapid Testing for the coronavirus still remains pat
Just ahead, the president of the American Medical Association. The impact the coronavirus is having on tourism and the convention business. Our phones a lot our phone lines are open. [indiscernible] , 202 7488001, and if youre a medical professional, 202 7488002. We begin with the numbers courtesy of johns Johns Hopkins university. 1. 6 million confirmed cases and around the world, more than 100,000 deaths, of those, more than 18,000 in the u. S. Our countries dealing with 490,000 cases of covid19 across all 50 states, washington dc and the territories. Six members of congress have been battling covid19, including senator rand paul, representative joe cunningham, representative neal dunn and congressman mike kelly of pennsylvania and ben mcadams of utah. Fromsixth member joins us his home in miami, representative Mario Diazbalart from florida. How are you feeling tonight . . Epresentative diazbalart i am welcome i feel recovered, i am still weak but other than that i feel pretty well.
Chinese authoritarianism, and praised american resilience. She spoke to the Hoover Institution. Welcome, everyone to our virtual policy briefing series. I am tom gilligan. For more than a century the Hoover Institution has been collecting knowledge and generating ideas. Has profoundly impacted Public Policy initiatives around the world. These policy briefings provide an opportunity for you to hear from our nations top scholars on the pressing issues facing the world during this time. As we all unite to confront the challenges of the pandemic, conversations like this have never been more important. We will be taking audience questions, so i encourage you to submit yours using the button at the bottom of your screen. Todays briefing is from condoleezza rice, the senior fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. Staterved as secretary of , the second woman and first africanamerican woman to hold this post. Also president george w. Bush is National Security advisor. Look forward to
Hello. It is tuesday, april 14, 2020. Welcome to covid19 on the front lines. A digital event cast from the atlantic. We are going to be talking for the next hour or so about the latest science, about the latest treatments and will be looking forward about what we can expect in the weeks and months ahead. Before get underway, a moment to thank our underwriter who is making the conversations possible. First, lets take a look at where we are right now. As of last night, more than 580,000 americans have been diagnosed with covid19. Over 23,000 have died of covid19related complications. There are some signs of improvement in places like new york. The curve appears to be flattening, but some other hot spots are emerging and at the moment 315 million americans are still under stayathome orders. It is an evolving situation of course. The atlantic has been moving along with it publishing articles like the technology that could free america from quarantine and the coronavirus unique threat. To t
Having on tourism and the convention business. Our phones a lot our phone lines are open. [indiscernible] , 202 7488001, and if youre a medical professional, 202 7488002. We begin with the numbers courtesy of johns Johns Hopkins university. 1. 6 million confirmed cases and around the world, more than 100,000 deaths, of those, more than 18,000 in the u. S. Our countries dealing with 490,000 cases of covid19 across all 50 states, washington dc and the territories. Six members of congress have been battling covid19, including senator rand paul, representative joe cunningham, representative neal dunn and congressman mike kelly of pennsylvania and ben mcadams of utah. Fromsixth member joins us his home in miami, representative Mario Diazbalart from florida. How are you feeling tonight . . Epresentative diazbalart i am welcome i feel recovered, i am still weak but other than that i feel pretty well. Aeve this unfolded about month ago. Explain what happened, and when you knew you had coronavi