Country, of the washington dc is unlocked on with the president calling on all americans to abide by social distancing guidelines, asking you to stay home in april. Some sobering numbers from the trump administration. Dr. Fauci morning we could see between 100,000 warning we could see between 100,000 and 200,000 100000 and 200,000 people diagnosed with coronavirus. Howardk oh will join us in just a moment. If you are a medical professional, we would love to hear from you. The numbers are on the screen. You can also join us on social media on twitter or facebook. Good evening. A lot to get to, including the numbers from Johns Hopkins university. Numbers continue increasing. 782,000 confirmed cases around the world and 30,000 deaths. 160,000 162,000 cases in the United States. Of manhattanive positive foris covid19. She says she began to feel under the weather and developed muscle aches, fever, stomach upstate stomach upset and could no longer smell or taste. She was diagnosed with coron
People diagnosed with coronavirus. Howardk oh will join us in just a moment. If you are a medical professional, we would love to hear from you. The numbers are on the screen. You can also join us on social media on twitter or facebook. Good evening. A lot to get to, including the numbers from Johns Hopkins university. Numbers continue increasing. 782,000 confirmed cases around the world and 30,000 deaths. 160,000 162,000 cases in the United States. Of manhattanive positive foris covid19. She says she began to feel under the weather and developed muscle aches, fever, stomach upstate stomach upset and could no longer smell or taste. She was diagnosed with coronavirus. Symptoms are mild. She is isolating herself at home. She is monitoring her symptoms and working remotely. She encourages everyone to stay and continues to practice social distancing. Congressman South Carolina and is also battling the illness. ,oining us is dr. Howard koh the former assistant secretary of health for the oba
Worst Case Scenario is over 2 Million Deaths, which is horrifying. Doubling down on Public Health measures, social distancing, handwashing, those numbers could be lower. These are appropriate estimates by dr. Fauci. We do not know what the future holds. So much depends on how much we follow the guidelines. You have been speaking a lot about the pandemic of 1918. I want to put two numbers on the table. 50 Million Deaths in 1918. Deaths as a 675,000 result of spanish flu. You have pointed out we have not learned the lesson from a century ago. This comes as part of our regular Public Health history and we need to be prepared as much as possible and learn from the past experience. In 1918, 6 175,000 deaths in the thatry but we learned social distancing works. Entists have studied social distancing was implemented immediately and they had much lower death rates than in philadelphia. We need to understand what social distancing can do and apply measures today to save lives. Hear the term ben
On the foreign intelligence matters. You recently wrote that the Church Committee experienced of your Church Committee experience is its important we recognize the extraordinary power the United States has in the international respect for our constitutional principles. But it often seems in times of crisis we forget that power. Why is that . I think the phrase in times of crisis. We cede we being the other branches of government particularly the congress cede to the executive branch great powers. If we are under assault or perceive ourselves to be under assault. The problem is that then encourages administrations to, i wouldnt say generate crisis, but to elevate a crisis to acquire power. This is where congress is most under pressure to do its job and to ask questions. Not to undermine executive authority but to defend the constitution. And protect the American People. Again, as i said there and ive said many times in other places those of us who have had a chance to travel the world k
Tly hearing on science, space and Technology Committee with gina mccarthy. And faithbased organizations and delivering care to countries with hiv aids. This first group looked at a report on Global Health conducted by the lancet. This is an hour. Good morning. Sorry for the few minutes delay getting started. Im the Deputy Director of the Global Health policy here at csi s. It is my pleasure to welcome you for what promises to be a new series on faithbased health care. Before we get started, thanks to anita smith. I want to say thank you to katie on my team, instrumental in pulling everything together this morning. Faith is a powerful force in the lives of individuals is and communities throughout the world. Faithbased organizations are an important provider of health care globalry and resource for Health Services and support, particularly at the Community Level and hard to reach populations in some of the poorest places in the world. As rick Warren Church noted there may not be a churc