And disaster relief. That bill unanimously passed in the Senate Earlier this week. The dow is down right now about 629 points. And the latest battle between the president and the states is over ventilators. Scott ma grcgrew, the president asking why the hospitals need so many. Reporter thats right, and the reason, marcus, the hospitals need so many is they help you breathe, and if you dont have enough of them with those patients, many of them could die, and thats the point of flattening the curve, right . The idea is to match up the number of ventilators and patients. If you spike too early, there are too many, not enough doctors, not enough ventilators, and people get in trouble. New yorks governor says the state there needs as many as 30 thousand dollars ve thousand ventilators. 30,000 . Think of this. You go to hospitals, they have one in a hospital, now all of a sudden everybody is asking for these vast numbers. Reporter governor cuomo, meanwhile, maintains he needs that many venti
Johnson tests positive for corona virus johnson says hes suffering mild symptoms and will continue to lead the nations fight against the pandemic important. Im public fairly yes welcome to the program italy has set another grim record for the most deaths from corona virus in a single day almost 1000 people have died in the last 24 hours bringing the death toll to over 9000 thats the highest number of any country and Health Officials say the worst may be yet to come possible hospital wards are still foldover doctors say the number of patients is now steady contagion rates appear to be slowing giving hope that strict social controls may be working. But the lockdown is hitting the Italian Economy hard Homeless People are among the most affected churches and charities are overloaded with people looking for basic supplies. Now for more lets bring in journalist seaman who is following the developments from rome so more and more bad news for italy how are authors hes explaining this new recor
Effectively winding down their businesses for a period of time through no fault of their own. Major industries that are nation relies on testing business virtually dry up overnight. Again, not due to any business decision been made but because of appropriate directives from Public Health experts. And, madam president , most important of all, our Healthcare System ander our doctors, nur, and other frontline professionals are gearing up for what seems very likely to be the most significant nationwide challenge they have faced in generations. At every level, this new challenge is testing our nation and our institutions. Yesterday my home state of kentucky reported its first coronavirus related death. Our thoughts are with the family, runs a neighbor in Bourbon County who are mourning. I spoke with the Governor Beshear yesterday and were continuing to stay in close touch. The bluegrass has now confirmed 25 total cases to date. And we are heeding the silver warning of dr. Fauci if this is w
Comes to mind, and probably comes to most everyone elses mind, is the 1918 influenza pandemic in terms of its rapidity, how fast it spread across the world, and its scope and span. In the 19 century the cholera epidemic would be the most, the clearest analogy. Susan we are going to have an opportunity to dig into some of those lessons of history a bit more, but when you look at the response, of course things are so much different for society now. You talk about how important it is to learn lessons from past pandemics and epidemics. What lessons have we clearly learned . Christian what lessons have we clearly learned . That is a good lesson. Im only smiling because as an historian it is not a was clear we have learned lessons from the past. The one lesson we probably advise and envisioned most is to roll out things as methodically as possible, to Pay Attention to reliable news holdes, to do our best, to certain sectors of society from spreading pandemics. We are not seeing a tremendous
News the u. S. Charges venezuelas president Nicolas Maduro would not terrorism. Hello the u. N. Secretary general has told leaders of the worlds 20 major industrialized countries that humanity is at war with the virus and were not winning and when you go terrorists called for a Global Response at an emergency virtual g. 20 summits support a way out of a crisis where a leader has vowed to do whatever it takes to combat it and he said the numbers of confirmed cases which have now passed half a 1000000 are only the tip of the iceberg the real number is believed to be many times higher well the number of new deaths has surged in spain and it remains high in italy where its feared deaths are now rising in the poorest south and as economists predict a deep global recession the u. S. Saw 3300000 people make new jobless claims last week its biggest ever jump the barker begins our coverage with this report on the situation across europe. This is how spains hoping to win the war on the Coronavir